Diagrama Foundation’s Duckyls Farm near East Grinstead is a finalist for a BBC Make a Difference Award in the Environment category, to recognise its remarkable transformation into a thriving, inclusive space where adults with a learning disability are helping to care for and shape the land. In just over a year, Duckyls Farm has been…
As temperatures continue to rise across the country, the team at Duckyls Farm Community Services in Sussex is going the extra mile to ensure every animal on the farm stays safe, comfortable and cool during the hot weather. The dedicated staff have been starting their days much earlier to complete jobs before the hottest part…
Diagrama Foundation has received a grant from the East Grinstead Memorial Estate Ltd to help purchase vital new equipment for Duckyls Farm in East Grinstead, which supports adults with a learning disability, autism, acquired brain injury or physical and sensory impairments. The funding has been used towards the purchase of a Hyundai Mini Dumper Power…
Adults with learning disabilities who attend Diagrama Foundation’s Community Services at Duckyls Farm have proven they could give this year’s Channel 4 The Great Pottery Throw Down competitors some serious competition after taking part in a pottery activity on the farm. Set in an area of outstanding natural beauty, 100-acre Ducklys Farm provides a choice…
Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm, near East Grinstead is celebrating the arrival of 105 native broadleaf saplings, generously donated by the Woodland Trust, an important step in their ongoing mission to restore the land, improve safety, and create a thriving environment for people, livestock, and wildlife. Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm offers Day…
Diagrama Community Services, part of Diagrama Foundation is inviting applications for a unique role that combines hands-on farming experience with meaningful care work. The Care Farm and Community Instructor role at Duckyls Farm, in an area of outstanding natural beauty near East Grinstead, offers the chance to use livestock and farming skills to support adults…
Funding from Kent Community Foundation allows volunteers to transform neglected spaces into community gardens Wilderness to Wonderland tidies, plants and maintains neglected public spaces in Margate. Funding from Kent Community Foundation has helped them to transform unused spaces into wonderful, colourful enticing areas which have brightened up the town and improved the feeling of civic…
Outdoor Studios CIC received funding from Kent Community Foundation to provide art sessions for young carers. Outdoor Studios CIC facilitates artist-led workshops for creative experiential learning exploring environment, landscape and place, and the advancing impact of climate change. They received a total £4000 towards art sessions for young carers, in Ashford, Folkestone, Sittingbourne and Canterbury,…
Windmill Community Garden Margate received funding from Kent Community Foundation for their composting project. Thanet based charity Windmill Community Garden Margate received funding of £4,642.00 from Kent Community Foundation in December 2023 for their community compost scheme. This August, Kent Community Foundation visited the initiative to see how the funding has been used. Now in…
Grant-Maker, Kent Community Foundation has supported a marine conservation educational project for young people in Folkestone. Big Blue Foundation received £4,449.00 from Kent Community Foundation’s Environmental Fund to deliver a marine conservation educational project to young people in Folkestone and purchase seven kayaks. The charitable organisation applied for funding for their conservation project, in the…