Horton Community Farm

19/06/2026

Horton Community Farm volunteers are the best! Massive thanks for all the effort poured into improving the site for nature and food growing.

We've packed our raised beds with salads and veg, tamed overgrown areas including tree stumps growing back and overhead branches, and kept the paths, lawns and hedges super neat.

Fancy hanging out and pitching in? Head to our website to register https://hcf.org.uk/volunteering/ Travel expenses provided, take a share of the harvest and meet a good bunch of people!

We're grateful as always to our funders The National Lottery Community Fund for our Friday food growing group and npower Business Solutions Foundation for our Wednesday conservation group.

Volunteering Bradford
Volunteering Bradford
UBU Volunteering

19/06/2026

Loads of free outdoors fun at the farm every Monday for your 0-5s and siblings. We'll be growing food, making crafts, digging in the sand pit, baking 'pies' in our mud kitchen, and generally running wild! On hot days kids can paddle, splash about and cool off in the paddling pool so swimming costumes are recommended. Activities under cover if it's raining.

If your 0-5 year old isn't already registered or to find out more go to https://hcf.org.uk/growingtogether/ Once registered, just drop in for some fun!

Opposite 91 Cecil Avenue, Great Horton, Bradford
Mondays 10-12 or 1-3pm

Travel expenses reimbursed with ticket.

In partnership with Grow to school

Huge thanks to our funder The National Lottery Community Fund

29/05/2026

Loads of free outdoors fun at the farm every Monday for your 0-5s and siblings. We'll be growing food, making crafts, digging in the sand pit, baking 'pies' in our mud kitchen, and generally running wild! On hot days kids can paddle, splash about and cool off in the paddling pool so swimming costumes are recommended. Plus activities under cover if it's raining.

If your 0-5 year old isn't already registered or to find out more go to https://hcf.org.uk/growingtogether/ Once registered, just drop in for some fun!

Opposite 91 Cecil Avenue, Great Horton, Bradford

Mondays 10-12 or 1-3pm

Travel expenses reimbursed with ticket.

In partnership with Grow to school.

Huge thanks to our funder The National Lottery Community Fund

27/05/2026

Love and solidarity, today and always.
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Eid al-Adha Mubarak! From our family to yours, we wish all those celebrating a happy day of togetherness!

22/05/2026

Loads to get involved in down at the farm. Nature, food growing and community. We hope to see you there! Great Horton, Bradford.

21/05/2026

We are overjoyed to announce that our inclusive volunteer programme has received a huge boost with a grant of £20,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund Awards for All programme.

This will extend our very popular volunteer programme by funding 'Food Growing Fridays' until the end of March. A wide range of people are helping to care for our food growing areas, boosting local food whilst learning new skills, getting outdoors and meeting new people! We have a fantastic bunch of folk volunteering at the moment. Whatever your ability or background we hope you can join us. Visit our website to register. https://hcf.org.uk/volunteering/

The site has already begun reaping the benefits with record numbers of volunteers turning out every week and achieving a great deal. This has included topping up beds with a massive delivery of specially formulated veggie soil, sowing loads of seeds and planting loads of seedlings, netting raised beds to protect from birds and wood-chipping paths using some convenient waste woodchip from council tree surgery. A massive thanks to all our volunteers for chipping in (pun intended!) and thanks to Awards for All for making it possible.




Volunteering Bradford
UBU Volunteering

05/05/2026

Edit: Our June course is now full.

Autumn taster & course to follow. 🧡

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Mindfulness Garden taster session and 8-week course taking place at Horton Community Farm in June.

Booking essential: https://app.upshot.org.uk/signup/0592ce10/cc6ed794b76e04c6/

The course is open to anyone over the age of 50, and carers of any age. We ask people to come to the taster session first to see if the course is a good fit for them.

The course will particularly benefit those who are struggling with their mental or physical health, people experiencing chronic pain, and folks who are stressed or isolated.

The Mindfulness Garden explores breathworks meditation, nature connection and gardening. The course offers people the opportunity to connect, learn new skills, and cultivate self-compassion and self-care.

If you have any questions, please reach out.

05/05/2026

Rooted Together for asylum seekers and refugees.

We are delighted to launch our new programme, Rooted Together, for people seeking sanctuary (asylum seekers and refugees) in Bradford. Rooted Together will be tailored to the needs of those who attend. Sessions may include nature connection, organic food growing, campfire cooking, celebrating different cultures, diverse forms of movement, health and well-being activities, skill-sharing, mindfulness, and more besides.

Free lunch and travel reimbursement available.

Whilst these sessions are predominantly for adult asylum seekers and refugees in Bradford, children are welcome to come if they are out of school and childcare is not available.

Our first session will be this Friday 8th May. Folks can join us 11am-1pm or 1pm-3pm, or they can stay all day.

Booking is essential. Follow this link to fill in our booking form:
https://app.upshot.org.uk/signup/0592ce10/5e3831c3cd75a4ff/

16/04/2026

Our amazing volunteers have made a huge difference to Horton Community Farm so far this year, adding to the huge ongoing effort to maintain this vital urban green space and allow free activities for the community. Yesterday, 11 volunteers turned up to help our neighbouring untenanted plots by tidying up a large amount of fly-tipping and doing a thorough litter pick. This gave the look of the site a big lift.

A few weeks ago we created a fabulous dead hedge and extra gate around our pond, by knocking in stakes and stacking brash in between. It looks great, reuses waste branches and was fun to make!

Volunteer days are every Wednesday and Friday. https://hcf.org.uk/volunteering/

A massive thanks to npower Business Solutions Foundation https://npowerbusinesssolutions.com/foundation for funding this vital work and also Charis for administering the grant. This funding enables a wide range of people to come together, contribute to improving the space and benefit from being part of a community.

Thanks, also, to Volunteering Bradford and the University of Bradford's UBU Volunteering for enabling people to connect to us.