From January 2008, we are able to offer educational visits, field study trips and general interest visits to schools, colleges and universities and to other groups such as Womens Institutes, Historical Societies - even art groups who just want to come and paint - in fact any group size between six and thirty people.
Visits are free but groups must organise and pay for their own transport. Funding for these visits is provided by Natural England who will require either the Group Leader/Organiser or a leading member of the group to complete an Evaluation Form at the end of the visit.
Through discussion and pre-visits, we are able to offer tailor made visits for schools to tie in with various Key Stage elements of the National Curriculum which relate to food, farming the countryside and the environment including art, science, geography, citizenship, history
and much more.
All visits (except perhaps Art Groups) will include a walk into areas of our 200 acre hill farm set 800 feet above sea level, in an historic landscape and incorporating many environmental features with opportunity to see many species - flowers, trees, insects, birds etc.
We already receive visitors from all over the world - mainly seeking out historical information about Anthony Babington and the Babington Plot or following the trail of local uthor
Alison Uttley. But we have much more to offer.
In the coming months we will be adding information to our website for teachers, course and group leaders which will enable them to identify specific criteria to fulfill their needs. These may be just a general nature trail or farm walk to focus on farming and the environment, or
a detailed analysis of the historic landscape.
In addition to Teachers' Information Packs, we hope to develop a resource library of literature and audio visual material and produce our own pamphlets based on the farm and its environmentsl features and some on the history of Dethick and Babington which we hope will be particularly interesting to those studying the Tudors.