Bonterre Blog

We’re excited to announce that HAF funded places are now available to book for sessions over the Summer holidays!

Monday 4th – Friday 29th August

10am – 2pm daily, with a healthy lunch provided

Bookings are now open on the Worcestershire HAF booking portal!

We are incredibly grateful to the Oakland Foundation for partnering with us in support of our ‘Grow to Eat’ programme.Their funding has allowed us to offer this incredible opportunity to local schools, supporting children who benefit from a different kind of learning environment outside of the classroom. Our Grow to Eat programme provides children with a unique outdoor learning experience on the farm, with tailored activities designed to help build confidence, teamwork and practical skills. We were thrilled to welcome Mark, trustee for the Foundation for a visit last week, to see the project in action! This support from the…

Thanks to the amazing generosity of the University of Worcester and Heart of Worcestershire College, we’ve transformed an unused shipping container into an inspiring music room for our students!

The Bonterre Big Build Exciting news to share for our Big Build! As many of you know, we’re fundraising to build a new kitchen, dining and activities space on the farm, allowing us to continue serving our growing community. We’re happy to share that planning permission is now in place and we’re officially good to go! Over the last few years the number of children attending our educational and therapeutic programmes has skyrocketed, and our current building structures (sheds and shipping containers) are now really holding us back.We need a proper central facility to allow us to cater for the…

At Bonterre we regularly provide placements for Occupational Therapy students, working to support people of all ages to overcome challenges and live their best life. The farm provides a great opportunity to put their learning into practice! Some recent students have written a post about their time with us which we’d love to share!”We are occupational therapy students who have recently completed our placement at Bonterre. We have been able to take part in supporting the children throughout the many activities the farm has to offer on a daily basis. This has ranged from animal care tasks to cooking lunch…

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected to take part in the customer vote for a project with the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme!Three groups in every community have been shortlisted to receive grant awards of up to £1500. Tesco customers can vote in store for the group they think should take away the top funding award in their local Tesco store. Please support us next time you shop at Tesco!Bonterre will be one of the groups on the shortlist in the Worcester and Droitwich areas from the start of April, with our Project ‘Cookery on the Farm’. We want…