The best way of supporting our animals directly is by giving regularly each month. 100% of the money you give supports the animals care, which includes food, enrichment, enclosure care, and vet bills!
You can donate monthly through the page below!
Sponsored events or group fundraising!
Are you organising an event such as a bake sale? Do you enjoy running? Did you want to raise money for the farm through a sponsored walk?
All of this is possible through Just giving! Share our page with your friends or choose us for a sponsored event, all money goes directly to supporting our animals!
Please use the link below to begin. If you needed any support with your sponsored campaign, any ideas, or needed to ask any questions, please reach out to us on: [email protected]
After taking care of your loved ones, donating to a charity in your will has a meaningful and lasting impact. Choosing Southampton City Farm to be a part of your legacy means you will significantly help secure the farms positive and inclusive transformation in our communities through our learning disability programme, education visits, therapeutic engagement, and enable us to offer more opportunities for people to benefit from our City Farm. Did you know that some of the community surrounding the farm is in the most income deprived areas of the country? Did you know when the prevalence of depression is examined at sub city level using the (ACG) database, Redbridge ward (the ward we are based in) had the highest prevalence in the city? We are passionate to continue our work to empower and support our community. The farms 2,800 hours of support offered to the community is well needed. Some examples of our Work include:
560 hours of life skills building activities for our learning disability farmers
Average of 30 new volunteers per year. With the farm offering mental health boosting activities that help build employable skills and confidence for those furthest from the job market.
616 hours of therapeutic activities offered to young people and vulnerable members in our community.
Any donation, large or small, makes a long-lasting difference to the animals and the people on our farm. Some examples of the charitable work your donation would support include:
Securing our life enhancing activities and increasing subsidised provision to an ever-growing demand for vulnerable groups.
Running more activities- Your donation would allow us to run an increased amount of life saving and life skills teaching sessions with people from our community. It would allow us to buy new craft items for some of our farmers, new computers to teach employable skills, and new inclusive equipment for all our groups to use.
New enrichment items - Leaving a donation to us in your will would mean we can purchase more long-lasting enrichment for the animals. All our animals on the farm get different enrichment items each day to make sure they are stimulated and having fun. With a donation, we would be able to add to the enrichment items we already have and give the animals a new thing to do. Some examples include a new swing ball toy for our pig, new climbing structures for our Golden Guernsey Goats, and new hay toys for our Guinea Pig girls.
Provide a modern, inspiring, and sustainable new building to offer a high quality, suitable teaching environment. Our current building is over 30 years old. Originally intended for a temporary classroom for the old Millbrook School, it was only meant to be in use for a short time. 30 years later and the building is in need of constant repairs, with large amounts of effort needed to make sure we can run the lifesaving activities on the farm. Any donation would enable us to make sustainable repairs and modifications to the building, meaning more of our time and finances can be spent on people and animals.
Animal enclosure changes - This would enable us to buy good quality materials to replace and improve some of our existing enclosures. A few examples include new timber for extending our goose pen, concrete for our pig pen to give Penny a large area of hard standing, new fence posts for our entire site (to keep the goats in!), and a new concrete layered pond for our ducks and geese.
If you are interested in leaving a gift in your will and wish to get in touch, please email [email protected] and we would love to talk to you about the impact this would have.
If you have already left a gift in your will to the farm, please do let us know so we can thank you and invite you for a special tour around the farm.