Ouseburn Farm Charity Ltd

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

We’re wishing all of our lovely followers and supporters the very best for 2025. We’re looking forward to seeing what this year holds for our farm.

For anyone that is missing their farm fix, we’re back open on Tuesday the 7th of January from 10am!

Photo by our brilliant livestock volunteer, Paul.

31/12/2024

2024: Our Year in Review

What a year it’s been for Ouseburn Farm! Swipe to see just some of our many highlights. Thank you to everyone who sent in some of their brilliant pictures for this post. 📸

We also want to say a huge farm thank you to everyone who has supported us in 2024, whether that’s through visiting, donating or volunteering. We’re incredibly grateful! 💚

30/12/2024

This year we are very happy to be offering a Christmas tree recycling service! 🎄⁠
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If you live local to us in postcode areas NE2 or NE6, we can collect your tree from outside your property between 6th and 14th January. The cost for this is £12 and all donations received will go directly towards our charitable work at the farm. ⁠
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The trees will be chipped and then used throughout the year on the farm, in animal enclosures to keep our animals cosy and clean, and on footpaths. What a lovely and sustainable way to recycle your tree! ⁠
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You can book the service here: https://buy.stripe.com/28o00A6n0aDXdzicNq ⁠Once you have paid, please email your full postal address and an idea of where you will leave your tree (eg. behind bins/ next to wall) to [email protected].
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Thank you for your support. ⁠
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29/12/2024

Betwixmas, when everyone forgets what day it is and the chocolates start running out... what better time to fill out our community survey!

It's short and simple to complete, and will help us to shape our direction for 2025 and beyond: https://tinyurl.com/24hnp57a

Don't forget you can also choose to be entered into our competition to win a VIP group experience at the farm! Winners will be announced in the new year.

Your opinions really matter to us - thank you so much.

27/12/2024

Year in Review: 2024 Call out!

Hello everyone! We hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas. We’re working on our annual Year in Review post and wanted to include some pictures from our brilliant visitors! If you have any favourite pictures from your farm visits this year, do send them to us through DM to feature in our post.
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25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! We hope you have an absolutely wonderful day, as well as a fun and restful festive period. We look forward to welcoming you all back in the New Year.

From,

The Ouseburn Farm Team 💚🎄

24/12/2024

We're all tucked up and ready for Santa! 🎅🏽

Hope you all have a magical Christmas Eve ✨️

23/12/2024

Volunteer Profile: Meet Jen!

Our lovely Jen started volunteering with us in 2018. Jen had previously studied on animal courses, so she was keen to put the skills she had learnt into practice. Throughout her time as a small animals volunteer, Jen has been able to keep developing her skills by caring for a variety of our farm residents, whether they’re fluffy, feathered or scaly. 🐹 🦜 Since volunteering at the farm, Jen has also developed her customer service skills, from working in our café and then our farm shop. She gained more experience in handling money, stock taking and leading customer service workshops for our adult placements.

You’ll often find Jen in our shop, ready to greet customers with her sunny presence! We asked Jen what her favourite memory of volunteering at the farm was, and she said: “I love Christmas time at the farm, and the annual pantomime is my absolute favourite. I love seeing the placements performing, dancing, singing and telling stories.” When she’s not volunteering at the farm, Jen loves to meet up with her friends and take her dog Buddy on lots of walks.

We had to include a recent snap of Jen in festive mode. 🎅🏻 We’re so grateful to all our volunteers who gave us their time during the build up to Christmas, whether that was through serving customers in our shop or helping to design sets for our pantomime. 💚

22/12/2024

We had a lovely festive celebration on Friday to celebrate the end of term, with an awards ceremony for our Placements and a pantomime performance of Snow White!

20/12/2024

Some of our ducks are moving house for the festive period! This space will keep them safe whilst the farm is closed to the public and give them more room to roam around. They also have some big water butts to splash around in. They were pleased to see Lucy who popped back today for the Christmas party 🎅

18/12/2024

More festivities this week with our Placements in Make and Bake workshops, making Christmas biscuits and a full Christmas lunch with all the trimmings - sprouts and all! 🟢🍗

17/12/2024

Our animals have had some early Christmas presents this week! In Emma's workshops, our Placements have made the pigs some gifts filled with Hay, apple and kale. The guinea pigs, rabbits, degus and chinchillas have had hay Christmas trees and the birds have had piñatas filled with hay and monkey nuts. 🎁

15/12/2024

We will be closing the farm to the public during the Christmas period, from Saturday 21st December until Monday 6th January. We will reopen as normal on Tuesday 7th January from 10am-3pm.

If you would like to support us during our most quiet period of the year, there are many ways you can!

🐖 You could sponsor an animal or bee, a great gift for the nature lover in your life. All sponsors bought during December receive a £5 drinks voucher: https://www.ouseburnfarm.org.uk/sponsorananimal

🛒Buy something from our shop - we have some wonderful gifts.

💷 Make a donation to the farm via our website: https://www.ouseburnfarm.org.uk/donate

🐔Come and buy a bag of feed to give the animals before our Christmas closure. They would love to see you!

Thank you so much for all of your support this year.

13/12/2024

If you are coming to the Ouseburn Market this weekend, don't forget to pop into the farm!

We have some lovely gifts in our shop for the farm-lover in your life including DIY Beeswax Wrap Kits, stocking filler toys, farm and nature-themed books, handmade candles, Bee Lovers Gift Bags, handmade scarves and blankets, and jars of Ouseburn Farm honey.
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We're open today and all weekend, 10am - 3pm. ⁠
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10/12/2024

These lovely cardboard stockings were decorated by our Placements this week. Willow is chuffed, she got three! 🧦

10/12/2024

The next Ouseburn Wild Talk is this Thursday, and is set to be a brilliant evening with Sophie Yeo.

Find out more and RSVP here! ⬇️

www.wildintrigue.co.uk/event/ouseburn-wild-talks-an-evening-with-sophie-yeo-author-of-natures-ghosts/

UPDATE: EVENT POSTPONED

Unfortunately we've had note from Sophie that she is unwell and unable to host this evening's planned talk. We wish her a speedy recovery!

Instead, we'll be sticking with the theme of nature restoration and diving into the world of Beavers, which Heather (Wild Intrigue) will host. See you there! 🦫

A chilled night of mince pies, mulled wine and wildlife chat in Ouseburn is still going ahead! 🍷🐺🥧🦌

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As a Christmas treat, our next Ouseburn Wild Talk welcomes award-winning journalist Sophie Yeo, author of the 2024 Wainwright Prize shortlisted book for conservation, Nature's Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back.

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In Nature’s Ghosts, Sophie examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries.

Along the way, Sophie encounters the environmental detectives – archaeological, cultural and ecological – reconstructing, in stunning detail, the landscapes we have lost.

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Come along for an Evening with Sophie Yeo, in discussion with Wild Intrigue, as we explore this wonderful book and her wonderful Inkcap Journal.

📍 Hosted at Ouseburn Farm Charity Ltd
📅 Thursday 12th December | 6.30pm start
🎟️ Free and open to all, includes mince pies + hot / mulled drinks!

👉 Please RSVP here, so we don't end up eating eat 50 mince pies... 😅 www.wildintrigue.co.uk/event/ouseburn-wild-talks-an-evening-with-sophie-yeo-author-of-natures-ghosts/

Part of the Wild Ouseburn project.

08/12/2024