Home Farm Country Ride

31/08/2024

Very pleased to say that Gill (Luna Sky Spirit https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553005047310) has managed to recover most of her photos from Sunday, so there are more for you to enjoy!

Any additional photo orders, please send an email with screenshot/link to [email protected] 😊

Please allow a few days for your order to be returned to you as we have a huge number of orders to get through!!

Thank you so much for the support ☺️🐴

31/08/2024

29/08/2024

🌳 The Farm Ride will be open for bookings this Friday (tomorrow), Saturday, Sunday & Monday (30th/31st August & 1st/2nd September). 🌳

The last chance before the kids go back to school & the weather is looking lovely!

Due to road closures near the farm we will be using the fun ride entrance (Rake Lane, CH2 4DF). There will be no facilities available from here (toilets, refreshments etc.) but someone will be there to help should you need anything.

⏰ Bookings between 10am - 4pm.
📍 Farm Ride Only (5 miles)
🐴 £15/horse

To book on, please send us a Facebook message or email to [email protected] where we will provide payment details.

We hope to see you soon!

28/08/2024

Thank you for your patience, I think we've finally made it 🎉

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📸 Info on ordering photos:

Prices:

£3/Digital Copy
OR
£10 for 4 Digital Copies
OR
£15/A4 Printed Copy inc. postage

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All available photos have now been uploaded (please re-check Sunday Albums 2 & 3 if you looked earlier as there were technical issues with Facebook 😅); to order, please send an email to [email protected] with a screenshot/link to the photo you would like to purchase. Edits such as re-aligning, cropping and adjustments will be made upon purchase, if there is anything specific you would like please let us know.

We did photos ourselves in the horseshoe paddock on both Saturday and Sunday, but we were also joined by the amazingly talented Lily Blamires Photography https://www.instagram.com/lilyblamiresphotography_/ and KWICK Pics Photography https://www.instagram.com/kwickpics_photography/ at the water too, sharing the days! Gill Benbow (LunaSkySpirit) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553005047310 also joined us in photographing the smiles whilst on stewarding duty - multi-talented! Huge thanks to you all!

Unfortunately it seems as if the photos taken from near the black and white tyres on the Sunday (first photographer) may have been lost, we are working with Gill to recover these and will upload ASAP if we can sort them 🤞

11 year-old Amy, also captured the days at various points, so these will be added to our page too!

20% of photo sales from this page will be donated to the Breast Cancer Now charity via the JustGiving page. I will aim to get any orders back to you as soon as possible, but it may be a few days turnaround depending on the order amount!

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If you would prefer to view albums all in one place, you can see all of:

Saturday photos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mgDzyghh4PRefcuh9

Sunday photos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7yX4F3zeFgqVkYrSA

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Thank you so so much for the support over the weekend and beyond, overwhelmed doesn’t cut it! Thank you for your patience!

27/08/2024

So Facebook has decided we are at our limit for uploads for tonight!! There's more to come from the water area on Saturday and then Sunday's to upload 😊

Please bare with while we complete uploads and share instructions for purchase. Many thanks for your patience!

27/08/2024

A few photo albums from the weekend are currently uploading. Please bare with and we will share details on how to order once the upload completes 😊

25/08/2024

📣 Calling all those without bank holiday plans...

Having checked the ride this evening, we're happy to open for last minute bank holiday bookings for the farm ride tomorrow using the fun ride entrance (Rake Lane, CH2 4DF). Someone will be there to sign you in, but there will be no facilities available (toilets, refreshments etc.).

⏰ Bookings between 11am - 3pm.

📍 Farm Ride Only (5 miles)

£15/horse

To book on, please send us a Facebook message.

We will be in touch on additional days in the coming week 😊

25/08/2024

Wow… how to sum up this weekend… thank you to each and every one of you who have attended our event this weekend, we hope you all had a wonderful day 🐴

We’re completely overwhelmed by the support and couldn’t have asked for a better way to open our gates again. Massive thanks to many of our family and friends for helping make it happen, we couldn’t have done it without you!

Enjoy a few shots from the weekend! We’re working through the 1000s of photographs as we speak - please keep an eye out on our page! We will let everyone know the final total raised in this coming week 🎀

23/08/2024

Despite Storm Lillian really testing us this morning (see last pic) we'll be ready to see you all tomorrow! Here's a few sneak peeks of some additions 😊

Please have tickets for the charity ride either printed or on your phone - see you tomorrow!

This is not a sponsored ride, but for anyone wishing to make additional donations to this charity, please do so here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/home-farm-charity-fun-ride

20/08/2024

**ALL TICKETS NOW SOLD OUT**

**Tickets are required for entry. Please do not turn up if you haven’t booked onto the ride. Please see events page for anyone selling tickets if they can no longer make it**

We're looking forward to welcoming many of you back this weekend. 🐴

For some more information about the day, what to expect and additional donations to the charity, please visit the website: https://homefarmbackford.co.uk/home-farm-charity-ride-what-you-need-to-know/

Many thanks for your ongoing support ☺️

With our charity ride this Saturday and Sunday we have put some bits of info together to help those attending on the day. Car Parking/Entrance: The postcode for the field is CH2 4DF and What3Words is ///spring.leap.dream. You will see signs from the road and you’ll be directed to park up by volunt...

20/07/2024

Looking good Chester Horse Driving Trials Ltd.

Have a great weekend! 🐴🌳

29/04/2024

Entries are NOW OPEN for the August Charity Ride - 24th - 25th August 2024 🐴 💝

👉 https://www.ticketebo.co.uk/home-farm-backford/

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Book your place on the ride where 20% from every booking will go to Breast Cancer now. There will be other fundraisers on the day.

Your tickets include:

🦒 10 mile ride with a mix of the farm ride grass track, bridleways and roadwork inc. a section through Chester Zoo
🐴 Up to 60 optional jumps
🏵️ Rosettes upon completion
📸 On-site photographer

Please choose your preferred time slot with the first horses starting from 10am and the last horses leaving at 3pm. We have 6 tickets available per 15 mins to allow for spacing out of the ride, please stick to your chosen start times.

Go to the link below to select either Saturday or Sunday tickets with your preferred start times

👉 https://www.ticketebo.co.uk/home-farm-backford/

Please email us at [email protected] if you have any issues with bookings or have any questions.

Home Farm Backford

07/05/2023

Hi Everyone,

We just wanted to take the time to update you all; unfortunately our wonderful Mum, Julie, sadly passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of March, so we are unsure when we will be able to open the ride this year. We have received a huge number of messages with regards to opening and haven’t managed to reply to them all so please accept our apologies for any missing responses. We will not be monitoring the account over the next few weeks.

Julie was the welcoming face that many of you were greeted with upon arrival and leaves an enormous hole in our family and will be missed forever.

Thank you all for your continued support each year; we will keep you posted with any further updates.

07/10/2022

‼️FARM RIDE CLOSED ‼️

Unfortunately the farm ride will be closed this weekend due to the extremely wet weather. The course and car parks are completely waterlogged,

I am working through those booked in to cancel now, sorry for any inconvenience ☔️

27/09/2022

🐴 🐴 (Likely*) LAST DATES FOR 2022 🐴 🐴

🗓 Saturday 1st October
🗓 Sunday 2nd October
🗓 Wednesday 5th October
🗓 Saturday 8th October (10am-3:30pm only)
🗓 Sunday 9th October (12pm-5pm only)

🐴 £10/horse
⏰ Bookings 10am-5pm unless otherwise stated
📍 Home Farm, Gordon Lane, CH2 4DG

Please message us on here to book - we hope to see you soon 😀

*weather permitting