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A Farms for City Children heritage farm offering 5-day residential stays in rural Gloucestershire. The charity farms 60 acres.

A Farms for City Children moated heritage farm offering 5-day residential stays in rural Gloucestershire. Farms for City Children exists to remove the barriers that prevent children and young people having meaningful access to the natural world. During an immersive five-day residential stay on one of our stunning heritage farms in Devon, Gloucestershire and Pembrokeshire, children and young people participate in seasonal farming tasks alongside experienced farm teams and partner Farmers. Wick Court is on a bend of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. The house, is a Grade II* listed manor house with an intact, square-shaped moat. The farm is in the Countryside Stewardship Scheme and is farmed directly by the charity using low impact, traditional methods. There are a total of 140 acres, 80 of which are grazed by our neighbouring farmers. We also have extensive heritage orchards and areas for wildlife. Wick Court is a small-scale traditional livestock farm, with sheep, beef cattle, pigs and poultry. Wick Court also has a busy stable yard, where the children help care for ponies and horses. To illustrate the contrast in farming styles, the children also work at a neighbouring commercial dairy farm with father and son Tim and David Merrett.

21/10/2026

It’s world apple day today! We have three heritage orchards at Wick Court which provide us with plenty of apples 🍎
Here are some apple based delights the children enjoy throughout their stay

19/09/2026

Here’s just a taste of our Harvest Gathering today! Thank you so much to everyone who came along. It was a joy to mark 50th anniversary by celebrating local food, farming and heritage together.🍎🦇🐷🐮🎵🚜

Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible - from our awesome farm team and volunteers to those who partnered with us: Gloucester Cattle Society, Everest Farm, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Bushel & Peck C***r, The Long Table.

🎵thanks to the wonderful Bewelian

19/09/2026

We’re all set to welcome you, come on down to the farm 🍎🐮🐷🚜🦇

19/09/2026

If there was ever a reason needed to come and visit us today at our Harvest Gathering… Spice had her 10 piglets this morning!!! There’s of course more on the programme. Check it. Today only!

17/09/2026

📚 Today marks the publication of Down Burrow Lane, our co-founder Sir Michael Morpurgo's beautiful new memoir. The book tells the story of family, farming, friendship and Farms for City Children.

Michael has often described Farms for City Children as the greatest story he and Clare created together and Down Burrow Lane offers a wonderful opportunity to read that story in full. Our charity sits at the heart of the book, interwoven with Michael and Clare's reflections on family life, farming and the community they built together in Devon.

As we celebrate our 50th anniversary year, we’re especially grateful to Clare and Michael for choosing to donate all author royalties from the book to Farms for City Children. Their amazing generosity will help ensure future generations of children can continue to benefit from life-changing experiences on our farms. Thank you 💚

For anyone who has stayed on one of our farms, supported what we do or worked or volunteered with the charity over the past five decades, it promises to be a particularly special read.

This Hodder Books edition of Down Burrow Lane is available now from all good bookshops.

Read more 👉 https://ow.ly/bsOQ50ZOz11

Michael Morpurgo

15/09/2026

Only four days until the Harvest Gathering event Wick Court - Farms for City Children. Come down to meet our animals; pigs, horses, sheep and of course the stars of the show, Gloucester cows. We are particularly excited to be welcoming Gloucester Cattle Society, who will be bringing down animals for you to meet.

Don’t miss out on this one-off 50th anniversary event. Come and support the charity

Gloucester Cattle Society

Saturday 19th Sept 26. 11am -6pm

13/09/2026

🍎 Less than a week to go to our day of family fun at Wick Court!

Join us next Saturday at the Wick Court Harvest Gathering for a day of food, farming and heritage. Throughout the day, you can enjoy...
🎵 Live music
🍏 Fruit picking and pressing
🚜 Vintage tractors
🍲 Delicious local food
🐮Meet our Gloucester cattle
🤩 Lots of family-friendly activities.

📅 Saturday 19 September | 11am to 6pm
📍 Wick Court, Arlingham
🎟️ Free entry

Come and support Farms for City Children at this celebration of local food, farming and heritage 🍎🚜🎵 More info 👉https://ow.ly/s9NB50ZN081

04/09/2026

We can’t wait to throw open the farm gates for our Harvest Gathering event in a couple of weeks.

Wick Court - Farms for City Children

🍎Free entry!
🍏Apple collecting and juicing
🍎Pop up restaurant in collaboration with The Long Table
🍏Live music by Bewelian
🍎Bar by Bushel + Peck
🍏Farm produce for sale
🍎Children’s activities
🍏Farm Machinery on display

Saturday 19th Sept. 11am - 6pm

Come join us 💃🏼 🧀 🐄

04/09/2026

We were so pleased to host the whole charity this week, for our annual get together. Here’s to another year!

What. A. Team!*🤩

We've just wrapped up our annual staff gathering, this year hosted by our amazing colleagues at Wick Court - Farms for City Children.

It's an invaluable opportunity to reflect on the last year, create plans for the future and learn from each other. All so we can provide the best possible experience to our visiting children and young people.

Like our visiting young farmers, we also had the opportunity to share farm tasks, spend time outdoors and grow our knowledge, as well as enjoying delicious food, each other's company and much laughter. And we thrive as much as they do!

We're now refreshed, refuelled and absolutely raring to go for a new school year. We can't wait to welcome our first groups next week. 💚

*Including those who weren't able to make it for this photo too of course!

05/08/2026

Waddling around the gates of Wick Court, terrifying more nervous visitors, our Buff-Back Geese are all noise! And did you know, they are some of the oldest animals on the farm! We don’t know for sure but we suspect they could be over 20 years old. Maybe their long lives are down to all the freedom they have and all the apples they steal 😉 Farms for City Children

Address

Overton Lane
Arlingham
GL27JJ

Telephone

+441452741023

Website

http://farmsforcitychildren.org/

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