This Valentine’s Day, residents of Diagrama Care Home at Duckyls Farm are spreading love and kindness in a unique way by hiding keyrings adorned with crochet hearts around West Hoathly, Crawley Down and East Grinstead.
Duckyls Farm, a residential care home for adults with learning disabilities, is set on 100 acres of beautiful countryside and is home to a variety of animals, including horses, goats, alpacas, guinea pigs, and rabbits. The farm provides residents with opportunities to develop physical, mental, and social skills while enjoying the therapeutic benefits of working with animals and being immersed in nature.
As part of this Valentine’s initiative, residents have been busy attaching small crochet hearts, made by the Care Home manager, to cork keyrings. These keyrings are now being hidden around the local area for members of the community to find.
Karen Tolton, Manager at Duckyls Farm, said: “If you’re lucky enough to find one of our Valentine keyrings, please keep it for yourself or share it with a friend, family member, or neighbour who might appreciate a little extra love this Valentine’s Day. It’s a small way for our residents to bring a smile to people’s faces and spread kindness in the community.”
This creative project is part of Duckyls Farm’s ongoing mission to engage residents in meaningful activities while fostering connections with the wider community. By combining craft, creativity, and community spirit, the Valentine keyring initiative is sure to make hearts smile this February.
For more information about Diagrama Care Home at Duckyls Farm and Diagrama Foundation’s other services, please visit: www.diagramafoundation.org.uk
If you’d like to support the residents at Duckyls Farm, you can help by purchasing an item from their Amazon Wishlist: https://linktr.ee/diagramaamazonwishlist. Every contribution, big or small, helps enhance their daily lives.
About Diagrama Care Home at Duckyls Farm
Located in West Sussex in an area of outstanding natural beauty, Duckyls Farm provides the perfect setting for a range of residential care services for adults with learning disabilities including Supported Living. The incredible 100 acres of farmland encourages residents to be connected to nature and explore the physical, mental and social benefits that living in such a location can provide. Residents have full, active and outdoor focused lives enriched by alpacas, goats, horses and chickens, long walks and helping take care of their surroundings.
About Diagrama Foundation
Diagrama Foundation is a Kent based charity that supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life.
Diagrama has a Supported Living Service across Bromley and Mid Sussex, three homes for adults with learning disabilities in Orpington, an eight-bed care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex with a Community Services Programme a fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Essex, and a fostering and adoption service in the southeast. Plus, a 100 acre property offering farm and craft day Services cross West Sussex.
- The Supported Living Service, cares for 33 adults with learning disabilities, in seven schemes across Bromley and one scheme in Mid Sussex, helping them to develop skills and confidence to live in their own house either on their own or with others.
- At Cabrini House in Orpington the charity promotes the development of core skills for 23 adults with learning disabilities so that they can lead independent lives integrated within their community.
- Diagrama Care Home at Duckyls Farm, is a residential care home in West Sussex on a 100-acre farm for residents with learning disabilities, which allows the charity to explore the physical, mental and social skills and benefits that working with animals and in nature can offer to people with a learning disability.
- Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm is a day care provision for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
- The team at their nursing and dementia care home, Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea, support vulnerable residents to live life to the full.
- Diagrama’s voluntary adoption agency and not-for-profit fostering service cares for children who wait the longest for homes in London, Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
Many vulnerable children and adults don’t get the support they need to develop their true potential, but the Diagrama team know that when someone has time and belief invested in them, they come alive, because that investment has made them feel valued and worthy.
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