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Patchwork Farm is a fully wheelchair accessible, on-site, therapeutic farm offering the children, young adults and visitors to CHF an interactive, multi-sensory, outdoor learning experience. It promotes the concept of choice, increases confidence and promotes physical and emotional wellbeing.
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Situation
Children and young people with complex neurodisabilities have extremely limited opportunities to explore and interact with nature and animals. Helping to look after things that ‘move and grow’ is an aspect of personal development which is not easily available to these young people and yet is an essential feature of growing up. Very few farms are designed to be fully wheelchair accessible and even fewer have been designed to allow young people with limited movement the chance to fully interact.
Solution
Patchwork Farm is a fully wheelchair accessible, on-site, therapeutic farm that includes a variety of traditional and non-traditional farm animals and every element has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the young people we support. All of the paddocks are fitted with four foot gates for wheelchair access into the animal enclosures. Concrete paths and the outdoor learning centre allow visits all year round. If they can’t make it to the farm, the animals will come to the classroom.
