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Volunteering & Wellbeing Facilitator Vacancy

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Farm Staff

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 Visits

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Farm Staff

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

Farm & Community Worker Vacancy

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Farm Staff

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

Coronavirus! Visitor guidance…

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Farm Staff

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

Website Updates

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Farm Staff

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

Meet ‘Treddy’, latest arrival born January 2018

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Farm Staff

‘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

Meet Buttercup & Clover

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Farm Staff

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

‘Milking Cow’

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Farm Staff

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

Bunnies Galore!

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Farm Staff

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

Award for the ‘Grow Up Gloucestershire’ allotments group!

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Farm Staff

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

Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Farm Staff

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

Riding School Volunteer Walk Leaders, etc

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Farm Staff

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

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If you'd like to help

The farm is run by the Friendship Cafe (a registered charity) as a non-profit making community project. If you feel you can help out in any way, by donating some of your skills, goods or money, please get in touch. The farm relies on donations towards animal feed, vet fees, insurances, tools, transport and the many other costs involved in keeping the farm open.

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St James City Farm & Riding School
Albany Street
Gloucester
GL1 4NG
01452 305728 or 308127 (Office)
imran@thefriendshipcafe.com
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We're open all year round (Not including Christmas or Boxing Day)
Monday to Sunday
9:30am to 5pm (4pm during Winter)
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The St James City Farm is a project of The Friendship Cafe - registered charity number 1098562