SERVICE DETAILS
Welcome to our Farm Community, a safe and supportive living space for young people. Our Farm Community is designed to provide a stable and caring environment for individuals aged 18-30 who experiencing homelessness.
Our community is staffed by a team of experienced professionals who work full-time to provide support and guidance to our residents. Our dedicated team is committed to helping our residents overcome the challenges they face and build a better future for themselves.
In addition to our full-time staff, our community also includes residential peer mentors who live alongside our residents. They provide valuable support and guidance to our residents, helping them to set goals and work towards achieving them.
Target group
Young single people aged 16-30 who are homeless or at risk of long term homelessness. Residents usually have support needs around mental health, substance abuse, learning disabilities or offending.
Farm Community is a community farm near Kirknewton in West Lothian, only 10 miles from Edinburgh city centre. The farm is home to a Cyrenians Community of young people living in peer-supported accommodation and provides opportunities for residents and volunteers to grow food, skills, ideas and confidence.
Our farm Community is closely linked with our social enterprises, Good Food and the Farm Enterprise, and our Community members are offered the opportunity to volunteer with them.
We are a small farm or ‘market garden’ with 8 acres (about one field to most farmers). We have an orchard with 250 fruit trees, 8 indoor growing houses, outdoor growing spaces, 110 free-range laying hens, a craft workshop, a production kitchen and an eating and meeting space.
We grow a range of Organic fruits, vegetables and herbs, and produce free-range, Organic eggs for sale to individual customers and wholesale.
We offer a range of volunteering opportunities for people from all walks of life as well as corporate volunteering events.
For more information about our community and the services we offer or for the costing information please don’t hesitate to contact us.
You can reach us by phone on 0131 333 1392, email on communitiesplacements@cyrenians.scot, or by filling out and returning this enquiry form at https://cyrenians.scot/how-we-help/128-our-residential-communities.
