WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
The Farm has submitted an application for a grant of £10,000 for the provision of an all-weather outdoor classroom next to the EpiCentre building.
As part of its 150yr anniversary celebrations, Yorkshire Building Society Lasting Legacy Fund has set aside £150,000 to be shared equally between 15 local charities around the country.
We are delighted MVUF is in the list of 30 charities from which the final 15 will be selected by the public. Voting can ONLY take place on line by copying the link below and pasting into your browser.

http://www.ybs.co.uk/legacy/index.html

You will then be able to see the candidates listed

Please support the Farm by voting for us before voting closes at midnight 31st October 2014.

YBS Lasting Legacy Fund website, where more information can be found, says:

Voting is open to all members of the public visiting this website. You may only vote for your three favourite charities once. Votes can only be made online; we cannot accept votes by any other method. Voting closes at midnight on 31 October 2014. We reserve the right to close this campaign at any time should circumstances change. Email addresses will be used solely for the purpose of verifying voters and will not be used for any other purpose by the YBS Group or any of its affiliates.

Thank you for your support and please share this with as many people as possible.

Great news – the dietary restrictions have been lifted so you can feed the animals again.

Please only use feed available from the farm though as this is carefully selected.

Thanks and enjoy your visit.

Why not come along and see this live art installation – you may even get chance to participate

Come along and join in the fun – a traditional style Summer Fair with activities including Animal Bowling, Whack the Rat, Model Recycled Raft building, Tombola, crafts and face painting. For the second year running the Fair will incorporate a Duck Race on Meanwood Beck.

Saturday 10th May 2014

11am to 3pm

Vegetable Seedlings

incl. cucumber  and courgette

Tomatoes

Strawberries

Ornamental  perennials

All at very reasonable prices

Farm Shop

incl. Fresh Farm eggs and produce

Hungry Hedgehog Café open as usual

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Saturday 2 November 2013

11.00am until 3.00pm

Come along to the Scary Scarecrow Fun Day but be prepared to be scared!

There will be lots to do and see including face painting, bat crafts, apple bobbing, whack the rat, a trick or treat trail and of course you will be able to come and see all the scarecrows and judge which is best. 

Don’t forget to enter your own scarecrow, its really easy. Just make a scarecrow and bring it to the Farm by 4.00pm on Wednesday 30th October.

If you need a bit of help with your scarecrow there will be scarecrow building workshops running on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th October from 11.00am to 3.00pm.

Your scarecrows will need to be super scary as well as circus themed.

Good Luck with your entries!

Two weeks ago, Farm Staff and Volunteers were very upset by some bad news.  Early on Saturday morning Errol, one of our alpacas was found lying in the field very severely injured.  His injuries were so severe the vet had no alternative but to put Errol to sleep.

A dog collar was found nearby in the field and Errol’s injuries suggest he was attacked by a dog.

At MVUF dogs have always been welcome and the majority of visitors act responsibly by keeping their dog on a lead at all times and under close control.  The tragic and fatal incident suffered by Errol reinforces the request that all dogs must be on a lead at all times and we ask that visitors respect this request.