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March 2024 Accounts
Autumn Newsletter – OUT NOW
Art and Nature at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm
*UPDATED DATES*
The course will now begin on the 8th October for 6 weeks, every Tuesday 10am-1pm.
Use the link below, or scan the QR code to book your place now!
Swarthmore Education Centre – Booking (bookeo.com)
Each session will run as follows:
Session 1: Firelighting, meditation and creative writing
Session 2: Firelighting, meditation and art
Session 3: Firelighting, meditation and music
Session 4: Firelighting, meditation, bring the music, poetry and art together
Session 5: Cooking and outdoor skills
Session 6: Students group choice from activities above.
use the link below to read the latest edition of the MVUF Newsletter!
NEW Farm Merchandise!
We’re excited to announce we are now selling new farm merchandise in the Gift shop in the Epi-center. From mugs to T-shirts we’ve got a range with something for everyone 🙂
Pigs are back!
We’re so excited to say that the pigs are back!
Make sure to come visit the three new additions to the farm 🙂
Shire Wood Temporarily Closed to Public
We are collaborating with The Bikes College
Unfortunately we are unable to carry out bike repairs on the farm at the moment. To ensure that we can still provide second hand bikes for sale, for our local community we have collaborated with The Bikes College. They currently collect repair and return any donated bikes to the farm for us to sell on. We are incredibly grateful for this collaboration and love working together to make Leeds and city of cyclists.
Based in LS12 The Bikes College is a self sufficient Community Interest Company. They offer serviced second hand bikes, fully functional second hand parts, as well as supporting grass root talent and offering affordable CyTech certified Workshop facilities, for bike builds, services, adjustments and repairs!
To find out more about The Bikes College, the services they offer and how they can help you repair your bike make sure to check out their website 🙂
Sign Our Petition!
Install a pedestrian crossing on Meanwood road – Accessibility for all!
Sign our Petition here – Petition · Install a pedestrian crossing on Meanwood road – Accessibility for all! – United Kingdom · Change.org
This is a petition to install a new pedestrian crossing at the Ridge Grove Bus stop on Meanwood Road, adjacent to Rollette Café.
Crossing at this spot has always been tricky but it is especially difficult for the HOOF team- a group of Adults with Learning Disabilities who attend Meanwood Valley Urban Farm throughout the week.
Please watch our Petition Video! where the HOOF team explain why this crossing is so important.
It is particularly difficult to cross here for the HOOF team because many members have issues with their mobility, whilst others struggle with their spatial awareness and have poor peripheral vision.
Having a pedestrian crossing installed at this spot is essential to making our site accessible to all, as the walk to and from the nearest crossing, at Boothroyd Drive, would take over 10 minutes meaning it is too far out of the way for most.
It would also help manage the speed of traffic. Contributing to an overall safer neighborhood as well as connecting the two footpaths on either side of the road. Increasing accessibility to the Bandstand allotments, Woodhouse Ridge and Meanwood Urban Farm.
Many local groups, including the Meanwood Road Project, have expressed support for this idea, as have local residents.
Please sign this petition to make Meanwood safer and more accessible for our vulnerable adults, visitors to the farm, and members of the wider community.
Thank you for reading!
PS – When signing the petition please make sure to verify your email, otherwise your signature won’t be counted!