Activity Based Care
Culmside Support provides Day Services at Smithincott Farm for individuals with a learning disability, autism, dementia or a Mental Health condition.
Activities available:
Small Animals
We also a have number of small animals including pigs, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs, goats and chickens, ducks and 1 Shetland pony.
Opportunities include:
- Feeding the pigs, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs, goats, chickens and ducks
- Collecting eggs
- Cleaning out the chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs
- Grooming and handling the rabbits, guinea pigs and pony
- Assisting with general care
- Fixing and making fences
Farm
We are based on a working dairy farm and currently milk up to 100 cows every day.
Opportunities include:
- Caring for the calves and making sure they have clean bedding and enough food and water
- Feeding cows
- Fencing
Other opportunities include observing calves being born and helping out with the silage/maize harvest.
Gardens
- Basic gardening skills – weeding, pruning, preparing the ground for growing fruit and vegetables, planting
- Grow your own vegetables
- Harvest and take home fruit & vegetables
- Grass cutting
- Offering individual plots or planters
- Making planters
Indoor “rainy day” Activities
We currently offer a few craft based activities that can be done when the weather is bad such as:
- Flower pot painting
- Planting indoor bulbs
- Making bird feeders
- Christmas decorations
- Making crumble mixes, cordials, jam using produce from in and around the gardens
- Woodwork – making toys for small animals, bug ‘hotels’, bird tables etc
- Craft Workshops
Other Activities
- Sensory Garden – awaken the senses with various activities in our Sensory Garden or simply sit and take in the different sights/smells/sounds/touch etc
- Volunteering opportunities in the community – we take small groups out to people’s garden and help tidy, cut grass, weed etc. The people we help often give us donations which we use to subsidise trips out.
- Trips – theatre, sea fishing, steam trains, museums, gardens and grand houses!
- Local walks
- Fishing
- Beach combing
