My Step Up Care Farm

My Step Up Care Farm At 'My Step Up' care farm for adults with special needs we provide animal therapy to help our clients be active, develop social skills & benefit health.

My Step Up is a farm based day centre for adults with special needs and other challenges. Set up by parents of two autistic young men we saw the benefits of meaningful work outside with and for the animals and so this inspired us to set up the care farm in Blackburn Lancashire. We decided on the name “My Step Up" because research shows that meaningful occupation , doing something that matters, significantly improves the health and well-being of all people and enables them to develop to their maximum potential... so the care farm is a step up for the person with autism, special needs, mental health issues and any combination of these challenges. My Step up aims to provide a fun and active day to give our people a more interesting, less lonely, healthier, more social, fun and happier life. Doesn’t matter what the persons challenge is, let’s work together and find something to look forward to, to meet new friends, to spend a noisy ( or a quiet) time away from the usual home, and get more out of life! We do this by providing healthy practical outside activities based on the real work activities of a farm. If you would like to hear a current service user talking about how he feels about the farm, we recently had BBC Radio Lancashire produce a show at the farm- please look in our Media Section. My Step Up is a social enterprise- a service you pay for- with any profits going back towards the social purpose of increasing the physical social and mental health, visibility and employability of adults with special needs and other challenges.

Sheep have been moved back into the yard away from the fireworks which are already going off.
02/11/2024

Sheep have been moved back into the yard away from the fireworks which are already going off.

27/01/2023

Employ Me is the name given to Mencap's bespoke supported employment programmes.

December was a busy conclusion to 2022. Members of our Barnet Job Club achieved 10 paid job outcomes in the last seven months. The latest of these was Hitesh, who was offered a role at Waitrose.

27/01/2023
We’ve added some new doors to the barn 😄 everyone should be warmer as we enter the autumn/winter months. And hopefully i...
13/10/2020

We’ve added some new doors to the barn 😄 everyone should be warmer as we enter the autumn/winter months. And hopefully it’ll stop the chickens from wandering in too 😂🐓🐔🐔

Hi everyone! Here is a short video from the Talent Show last week. Thanks to everyone for taking part 😎https://youtu.be/...
25/08/2020

Hi everyone! Here is a short video from the Talent Show last week. Thanks to everyone for taking part 😎

https://youtu.be/YDGbXelTWpw

Here are a few clips from the talent show we had last week.

Today we took advantage of the good weather and had a walk up into the fields 😎 a great way to exercise and build an app...
31/07/2020

Today we took advantage of the good weather and had a walk up into the fields 😎 a great way to exercise and build an appetite for lunch!

Great first day physically open again! We've recently created a YouTube channel, so you can see all the fun activities w...
16/07/2020

Great first day physically open again! We've recently created a YouTube channel, so you can see all the fun activities we get up to on the farm 😎 remember to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzEljxSyR0434R4TSYXIcZw

My Step Up is a care farm for adults with special educational needs. These videos show what we get up to on the farm and showcase our animals.

Well done eveyone, you all did well! Remember to change and clean those clothes ready for next time!
16/07/2020

Well done eveyone, you all did well! Remember to change and clean those clothes ready for next time!

15/07/2020
23/05/2020

A little video from us 🙂

03/04/2020

Hi all, following government advice we are currently closed on the farm, We have moved to videos, whatsapp and calls for a while but we will be back!

Address

Blackburn
BB1 9RG

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 3:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 3:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 3:30pm

Telephone

+44 08432 896179

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