Our GM-BGH Leadership, Skills and Social Impact team volunteered at Valley Farm OWL CIC
Valley Farm OWL CIC provide life-skills development across a broad range of areas and support people to increase their self-efficacy, communicate effectively, and develop greater self-awareness. Coaching is provided through nature-based experiences and they offer a variety of activities – and they can all be tailored to suit your current needs and preferences.
They're a not-for-profit organisation with a Christian ethos who's aim to serve and support our local community, enabling people to find joy, health and fulfilment in their day-to-day life.
Emma Nock is the Director and she welcomed the LSSI team with open arms and showed them around, gave the team their jobs and made them brews and biscuits.
Clare Davis, Workforce Development Specialist, who organised the activity told us:
"We worked hard and I was aching after it! Our main job was to shovel a giant pile of horse poo into wheelbarrows and take it across the way to a field. We then spread the muck onto the field with rakes. We quickly devised a routine of muck shovelers and spreaders. We managed to make a decent dint in the big muck pile, and we muck spread a full field. For the last part of the day, we went on to do weeding and to sort a giant pile of stones out into sizes.
"It was good to see the farm in action doing their wellbeing activities with an array of people. It was also great to get some fresh air and do some hard manual work with my team at LSSI."
