Horton Community Farm

20/03/2025

Spaces are filling up fast for our Mindfulness Garden course for folk over 50 and carers of any age.

Please fill in this booking form to secure your place at our taster session and 8-week course:

https://forms.gle/RDwZcam82mDghW3Y6

If we're fully booked after the taster session, don't worry; we're running courses throughout the year. 🌻

20/03/2025

Help Horton Community Farm sow the seeds to create a stunning display of Bradford 2025 colour! Plus, sow in pots to grow at home and learn which flowers are edible. Join us on the 2 dates below for a fun time volunteering. Discover our amazing urban green space at the same time.
Bradford 2025 Bradford Council

18/03/2025

Are you over 50 or a carer of any age? Do you think you'll benefit from mindfulness and nature connection in our peaceful urban oasis? Fill in this form and we'll be in touch ☺️

This course is for folks over 50 and/or carers of any age. Our programme incorporates breathwork meditation, nature connection, food growing and relaxing in nature. Aimed at beginners to mindfulness and those more experienced. The gardening activities suit a range of different abilities and energy l...

12/03/2025

We're loving the spring flora and fungi around the farm at the moment. And we're very happy to welcome back our duck friends.

08/03/2025

Grow Scarborough does great work! I must say, I wouldn't mind starting sessions with a cheeky (veggie) sausage buttie! 👌🏼🌱

08/03/2025

Celebrating autistic women on International Women's Day.

07/03/2025

As a team who is predominantly neurodivergent and an organisation who supports many neurodivergent folk to attend our sessions and courses, we'd highly recommend looking into

We recognise the value that neurodivergent folk can bring to life and the workplace, and the overlapping marginalised identities these groups often experience. Listening, understanding and support is key.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week aims to bring about worldwide neurodiversity acceptance, equality and inclusion in schools and workplaces.

07/03/2025

Are you looking for inclusive work alongside managing a long-term health condition? Introducing our new webinar series, Spring Into Employment: Skills and Strategies To Find Meaningful Work!

Over the coming months we’ll be offering free online sessions sharing tools and knowledge to help you to successfully find and maintain paid work while managing a life-altering condition. You can join as many or as few as you like, and we’ve chosen these topics specifically as they’re often left out from traditional conversations about inclusive employment. However, they’re the things that can realistically make a world of difference when taking practical steps towards your career goals.

The sessions are as follows:

12th March: How To Create A Personal Survival Budget. Identify your weekly or monthly outgoings, including the additional costs of disability, to work out the target income you require from a job and how to attain it.

16th April: How To Network Online. Learn how to create a diverse network of colleagues and professionals and unlock new opportunities, even if traditional in-person networking isn’t feasible for you.

7th May: How To Find Accessible Volunteering And Internships. Master tips and tricks to find inclusive and worthwhile roles that will boost your skills and experience… as well as how to create your own opportunities.

16th June: Workplace Adjustments For Energy Limiting Conditions (ELCs). Discover examples of reasonable adjustments that especially benefit people with ELCs, including those that are lesser-known, and how to implement them in your job role.

All live sessions will be led by Astriid communication consultant Pippa Stacey. The webinars will be recorded if you can’t attend live, but make sure you’ve signed up for the session in order to receive the recording!

Sign up for each free webinar now (as many or as few as you like) via the links below. We can’t wait to see you there!

How To Create A Personal Survival Budget: https://buytickets.at/astriid/1597751

How To Network Online: https://buytickets.at/astriid/1597862

Finding Accessible Volunteering and Internships: https://buytickets.at/astriid/1597907

Workplace Adjustments For Energy Limiting Conditions (ELCs): https://buytickets.at/astriid/1597979

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06/03/2025

Sign up to our April Mindfulness Garden taster session and 8-week course via our Booking Form. For folks over 50 and carers of any age. 🌱

This course is for folks over 50 and/or carers of any age. Our programme incorporates breathwork meditation, nature connection, food growing and relaxing in nature. Aimed at beginners to mindfulness and those more experienced. The gardening activities suit a range of different abilities and energy l...

05/03/2025

We invite asylum seekers and refugees to join a celebration of the Spring Equinox. A great chance to come together and join in sing-alongs with the fantastic Friendship Choir along with a camp-fire, free food, pot planting and hot drinks. We hope you can join us! Tue 25 March 3:30 - 6pm at Horton Community Farm

Thanks to our funders Bradford 2025, Pears Foundation and GiveBradford

05/03/2025

Our free, fun outdoor sessions for 0-5s and families are back, starting Monday 17th March! If you've registered already, just turn up, or you can join the fun by registering at https://hcf.org.uk/growingtogether/

With a brand new mud kitchen to cook up a treat on! Let your little ones go wild with the popular sand pit, clambering boulders, food growing beds and oodles of nature.

We look forward to seeing you there!

In partnership with the fantastic Grow to school

Thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund for funding these sessions.

05/03/2025

We have received funding for 2025 to run three mindfulness garden courses, taster sessions and some winter walks, in partnership with Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative. Thank you Bradford Council! This is a huge achievement as the funding was oversubscribed and competitive. We believe continued funding of this project demonstrates how valuable the course is, and the difference it makes to people's lives. Here's some recent feedback we've received:

"I’ve got a lot more out of it than I could imagine. The meditation is great; meeting like minded people; sharing experiences. I would say it is a very safe place to open up."

"As a carer, life tends to be quite chaotic and we don’t get much time to ourselves. It has been lovely to be part of this 8-week course and to do the well-being out in the open, a little bit of gardening and some well-being training and practices. I’ve really enjoyed it, I’ve got quite a lot out of it, and I've met new people."

We'll be running our first taster session on Wed April the 2nd, 1:15pm-3:45pm, and we'd love to welcome you to the taster session and the 8-week course starting the following week (Wed April 9th, 1:15pm-3:45pm).

We've listened to feedback and will be running afternoon sessions to make the courses more accessible to disabled and neurodivergent folk, and to those who can't use their bus pass til later in the day.

The course is for folks over 50 and carers of any age.

Booking is essential. Please email or text to book on. 💚

01/03/2025

Thinking of our Muslim friends 🧡

Reposting this lovely comic by Soofiya.

Check out their work:

https://www.instagram.com/soofiya

22/02/2025

Join us for our final Winter into Spring mindfulness walk for LGBTQ+ or neurodivergent folk. Take some time out of your week to pause, reflect and simply be in nature with kind souls. 🪻

Join us for our mindful winter walks as we slowly edge towards Spring. Practise mindfulness in nature, connect with like-minded folk, and meet our practitioners who run 8-week courses at the farm throughout the year.

Adapted to suit individual needs. We'll end the walk by treating you to a cuppa at a nearby café.

The walks in Roberts Park are for anyone who identifies as LGBTQ+ and/or neurodivergent.

We'd really love to meet you and to perhaps welcome you to one of our courses in the near-future.

Email to book on: [email protected]

21/02/2025

Join us for our final two Winter into Spring mindfulness walks. Take some time out of your week to pause, reflect and simply be in nature with kind souls.

Attending will also give you an opportunity to see if you want to join our 8-week mindfulness garden courses, designed to alleviate stress, improve health and lessen pain.

Join us for our mindful winter walks as we slowly edge towards Spring. Practise mindfulness in nature, connect with like-minded folk, and meet our practitioners who run 8-week courses at the farm throughout the year.

Adapted to suit individual needs. We'll end the walk by treating you to a cuppa at a nearby café.

We are running these walks for anyone over 50, and carers of any age.

We'd really love to meet you and to perhaps welcome you to one of our courses in the near-future.

Email to book on: [email protected]

18/02/2025

We've received some great applications for our outdoor practitioner role. We will be in touch on Friday to let you know if you're invited to interview. Thanks everyone! 🌱

17/02/2025

You have until Tuesday 18th Feb at 10am to apply for this role. Please include an up to date CV and a cover letter informed by our person specification.

We understand job specs can feel overwhelming. We know that minority groups are less likely to apply unless they meet all of the stated criteria, whilst more privileged folk will apply regardless, meaning that lots of potential candidates are overlooked. So even if you have an inkling that this role might be for you, we'd encourage you to apply. As what you can't see in yourself, others likely can. 🌱

Posted on February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 by hcforgukWe’re recruiting! Do you want to be part of a friendly team, delivering high quality outdoor sessions for young people and adults at a nature rich green space with food growing in Bradford? Horton Community Farm have been preserving, nurturing ...