Pledge to make a difference, together.
Our vision is a world where all children and young people benefit from being connected to food, farming and the natural environment.
Farms for City Children (FfCC) exists to ensure that children and young people experience personal growth and develop enhanced transferable life skills through food, farming and outdoor learning activities that connect them with each other and the natural world.
Living and working on a farm fosters independence, confidence, resilience and self-esteem. Enhanced physical activity and increased social interactions, through tasks that require collaboration and empathy, enable children and young people to leave us with increased learning and engagement, improved connections and wellbeing, and an enhanced sense of environmental citizenship; outcomes that are sustained upon returning to the home and class setting.
Through our offer to schools we welcome over 3,000 under-served children per annum for a 5-day residential stay at one of our farms. This year we will increase our impact by offering non-school stays, enabling us to embrace more diverse groups of young people and their families, from those in the care system, military families, health care trusts, church and mosque groups and other third sector support networks.
Through our fundraising the charity subsidises 50% of the cost of a week on the farm, and we endeavour to secure funds to grow our beneficiary numbers and benefit ever-increasingly diverse groups.