Get crafty with some all weather fun!

Never mind the weather - there is always something fun to do down at Holmbush Farm World. Tomorrow we have one of our special craft corner activity events so come on down and get creative. With soft play in the tea rooms, under cover hay bales to climb, indoor animal barns and inside pedal-tractor track there is plenty to do even if the rain is threatening! There are craft events at the farm throughout this month - on August 12, 19 & 26. See you there!

All set for summer!

As the school summer holidays approach, we're all set for the season with new play equipment and a new calendar of fun events to entertain the kids. New for this season is an additional climbing zone with three funky spider web frames for kids to get busy on. Like all the playzones at Holmbush Farm, this new zone is perfect for imaginative play in the great outdoors. Come and have a clamber soon!

Fund-raising success

They did it!

Many congratulations to our 'Holmbush Floozies' who raised £1000 by joining the Race for Life in Tilgate Park, Crawley. The group of 10 members of staff, joined the 5km event to help raise money for Cancer Research UK. The group cut across all age ranges from 17 to 75 and completed the distance at varying speeds but all help swell the coffers of the charity successfully. Well done to them all.

Bouncing into fitness

An energetic team from Holmbush Farm World is currently in training around the farm – getting set for this year’s fund-raising Race for Life. They’ve been running along with the daily goat races on the farm, pacing themselves against the frolicking lambs and bouncing on the ever-popular bouncing pillow trampolines to help improve their fitness and stamina ready for the big race day on May 25. Race for Life is the largest women-only fundraising event in the UK. Since 1994, it has been bringing together women of all ages and fitness levels to walk, jog or run to help beat cancer. The ‘Holmbush Floozies’ as they are calling themselves will run the 5km in Tilgate Park, in Crawley. They include those who care for the Holmbush Farm animals and others who work in the tea room or behind the scenes, and everyone involved shares the common goal of raising money for Cancer Research UK. Be sure to cheer them on!

Quad-tastic!

Lambing is well and truly underway now on the farm and we are filling up with little ones.

Come on down and take and look and check out this great pic of some newly arrived quads!!!

Quite a handful!

Josh lends a hand

For some young people, work experience may mean making the tea or manning the photocopier but for Josh Freeman, from Brinsbury Agricultural College, it meant being on hand for a very special delivery. Josh was doing work experience at Holmbush Farm World just when the farm’s new lambs of the season began to arrived! Ahhhh

Let the lambing begin

Few moments in the seasonal calendar mark the start of spring better than the arrival of the first lambs. Check out this little lovely who arrived yesterday, he's pictured with one of our team, Jacqui Tripp. Visitors are now welcome to come and watch lambing in our lambing barns as the flock expands throughout April. The farm has over 150 ewes expected to deliver in the coming weeks with twins and triplets usually a regular occurrence. Spending time in the lambing barns can be both interesting and educational for children and parents alike. There are also opportunities at this time of year for visitors to help bottle feed any orphaned or particularly hungry arrivals.