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SETTING UP EDUCATIONAL VISITS

  • Ever thought about hosting occasional visits to your farm from schools or other groups?
  • Would like to find out what visits might involve without committing at this stage?
  • Would like maybe to know more about CEVAS (Countryside Educational Visits Accreditation Scheme), but don’t want to sign up to the course at the present time?
  • Would like to maybe host a visit as part of The Year of Food and Farming in Education, but have no plans at present to get too heavily involved in visits?

Then Setting Up Educational Visits information events might be for you... and they are FREE !

These events are designed to give an overview of the CEVAS course and give you tips and help on how to set up one-off visits to your farm with minimal difficulty. Co-operative farm education staff will explain how to set up your farm to take a visit, what schools will be looking for and how you and your farm meets their requirements, the necessary health and safety considerations, and how to make a visit effective and fun too! The event gives you space to think and discuss whether you can get involved without any obligation to do so. Of course it would be great if you chose to go on and attend a fully accredited CEVAS course, but we recognise that this isn’t always for everyone.

INFORMATION AND EVENTS

Thursday 17 July
Pleasance Farm, Kenilworth
10 am - 1 pm

Venue:
Pleasance farm, Chase Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1PR

Contact if you have any queries and to book a place:
Brian Hainswort (emali: [email protected] or tel:0169682223)
Ian Egginton-Metters (email [email protected] or tel: 01373302204)

Wednsesday 24 September
National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh
10 am - 1 pm

Venue:
The Arthur Rank Centre, National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire CV8 2LZ

Contact if you have any queries and to book a place:
Brian Hainswort (emali: [email protected] or tel:0169682223)
Ian Egginton-Metters (email [email protected] or tel: 01373302204)

The Co-operative is passionate about the food it sells – and in all the stages of its production and consumption. As Britain’s biggest farmer, it also supplies its own stores directly. By supporting the Schools to Farms scheme and ‘connecting’ young consumers to food production, it is aiming to help bring about improved awareness of food production, a greater understanding of farming and, ultimately, lifelong healthier lifestyles.