The charges are outlined below:
From the next academic year (2024 – 2025), we will be charging an annual membership fee. The fee will be £1 per pupil attending your school. This will be capped at £250, but with a minimum fee of £100.
For example, if you have 155 children on roll at the beginning of the year then the cost for 2025 will be £155. This can be paid as a one-off payment or invoiced at the start of each term throughout the course of the year to spread the financial burden.
We truly understand that your budgets are very tight. However, we are really hoping you will view this membership as good value in return for the learning and experiences that we offer.
So what will membership include? Well, it will entitle you to book in as many workshops and assemblies as you wish throughout the year. This will also include the egg incubation, depending on availability. In addition, we will offer new resources on our website based on the primary school science curriculum. We will also be producing blogs from our farms, which will be topical and have valuable content for the children.
You will also be entitled you to book farm tours and these will be free of charge! These will be booked through Dani in the usual way. Her email address is dani@farmlink.org.uk. The £100 bus subsidy will also still be available, ensuring that the cost of the bus doesn’t become a barrier to your trip to the farm.
Whilst we are increasing our content relating to biodiversity, habitats and environmental land management, we still do stipulate that you will have to have an agricultural tour as part of the visit to educate the children about the agricultural industry and how food is produced.
Membership forms will be circulated early in the new academic year. We look forward to working with you and your students throughout the next academic year and beyond and thank you for your support and understanding.
Incubators
- All equipment, food, bedding and anything you will possibly need is included.
- Our trained staff set up and give the class a lesson on what’s happening then return and do the same the following week but candling the eggs to see what’s fertile and developing.
- You keep chicks for a week once hatched, again everything needed is supplied
- We then collect and they return the chicks to the farm, this is a real farm in Devon, these are show breeds and layers notable birds (even the cockerels)
- total time from starting the process to us collection is 4 weeks
- Everything is PAT tested
I would like to remind you that we will still be offering a bus subsidy of £100 for each farm tour booked; this will continue for as long as our restricted fund allows it.
