Episode 11 - Empowering Futures
From The Green Pledge @ Gloucestershire Archives by The Green Pledge team
February 21, 2025 · 24 min · Season 1 · Episode 10
About this episode
The episode discusses Empowering Futures, a care farm focused on improving the lives of individuals with disabilities through horticulture and animal therapy.
Empowering Futures is a care farm in Hambrook, South Gloucestershire. Their mission is to use horticulture and animal therapy to create positive meaningful changes to the lives of people living in the local community who are living with disabilities, who are vulnerable, isolated or disadvantaged. They are passionate about relieving social exclusion, increasing wellbeing and reducing the disparity between those with and without disabilities in employment. And they do all of this through the de...
Topics covered
- care farming
- disability support
- animal therapy
- social inclusion
- community wellbeing
Keywords
- care farm
- Horticulture
- animal therapy
- social exclusion
- wellbeing
- disabilities
- employment
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Empowering Futures
Places: Hambrook, South Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire
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