St James City Farm & Riding School have an exciting opportunity to join our talentedteam as a Volunteering & Wellbeing Facilitator, developing and coordinatingVolunteer placements for young people and those with disability and/or mental illhealth issues. The closing date to apply is the 22nd August 2021, with interviews intended for the 6th of September 2021…. Read More

HRH The Princess Royal visited us recently to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the The Friendship Cafe running the City Farm, which in 2001 was otherwise planned for closure by Gloucester City Council due to budgetary cuts. A HUGE thank you to all the supporters, volunteers, visitors and staff over the years and we hope… Read More

The farm is looking to welcome a new member to its team. The job will involve supervising volunteers to deliver the care and wellbeing of animals, and welcome visitors and groups. The worker will be an integral part of the Friendship Café charity and as such will be working to develop the potential of the… Read More

Opening again 3rd December 2020 … At St James City Farm the safety and wellbeing of our visitors and staff is our top priority. In order to ensure everyone’s health, we’ll be taking some precautions. We’re following advice on the current situation from Public Health England, and also from the British Horse Society and Pony… Read More

As you can see the website is undergoing some changes. It’s still very much a work in progress so individual pages or areas may be a bit janky looking until we get around to dedicating time to them specifically. If you experience any significant difficulties then please do send a message highlighting them. Otherwise thanks… Read More

‘Treddy’ is the new calf, born 11th January 2018 at the City Farm! Treddy is the name suggested by the volunteers, named after our neighbourhood (Tredworth)…. Read More

Buttercup and Clover, are the two latest arrivals at St James City Farm. The ‘Dexter’ breed of cows are both girls and one is just over 6 months and the other 10 months old. Dexter cows are the smallest native breed of cattle in the UK and originate from Ireland. The ‘farm’ had one that… Read More

Thanks to Nicks timber yard from Bristol Road, who are very kindly donating us some wood, volunteers from Network Wood group and the Fair Shares Art group will be making a life-size cow that will give children (and adults) to learn about milking cows. Watch this space for more information…. Read More

There has been a big surprise for the volunteers with the unexpected arrival of 29 baby rabbits over the past few weeks. The male and female rabbits are normally kept strictly apart from each other, because otherwise we would have a prolific rabbit population. However, one male somehow managed to enter the female quarters and… Read More

On Thursday the 1st October Gloucester City Homes (GCH) held its annual Garden Awards Ceremony. The event, held at Kingsholm Stadium, celebrated the hard work and effort that residents put into maintaining their gardens across the City. There were awards for various categories including Floral Garden, Hanging Baskets, Wildlife Garden, Communal Garden, Balcony/Patio Garden and… Read More

Luke, Karen, Rich and Kate are among the 60+ volunteers involved in making the farm tick over, and they made their way to Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Garden Party. The farm was selected to receive the prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for the huge input of the volunteers. Young Gloucestershire sent a National… Read More

We wish to establish a riding school at the ‘city farm’ that we run, but to make it work we need volunteers who are experienced with horses to help as walk leaders, etc to work alongside the main Instructor. The project’s aim is to get children and young people involved in riding and care of… Read More