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We have welcomed quails to Acorn Farm! While we have to keep all of our birds behind closed doors for the foreseeable future, this hasn’t stopped our quails from laying their delicious eggs! We sell these eggs in half-dozen packs for only £1 in our shop.

We have welcomed two new female meerkats to our recently expanded meerkat enclosure. We ran a competition to have this adorable pair named, and after a suggestion was left in our shop we settled on… Willow and Izzy! Please give a warm welcome to this delightful duo!

Our Santa’s Grotto will be open on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December, Tickets are on sale from our farm shop or by emailing admin@acornfarm.co.uk.

Our Pig, Doris, has given birth to thirteen adorable piglets. They have already started trotting around their pen, exploring their new environment and taking in the world around them.

Please come down sometime and meet our new arrivals!

To celebrate this milestone birthday we are having a farm fun day on the 26th of July! 

Come along and join in with the fun, no pre-booking necessary!

At Acorn Farm you can make the party what you want and do as much (or as little!) as you wish!

Parties are booking up over the summer months, email admin@acornfarm.co.uk to find out availability and book your party today!

There’s no need to book in advance! Tickets can be purchased on the day from the kiosk or shop!

Our Popular Farmer Experience Day is returning:

19th February 2025
Please email Marie: education@acornfarm.co.uk for more information. Or call the farm on 0151 548 1524.

We are looking for a companion for Lola and to also deliver horse rides on weekends, bank holidays and school holidays.

Must be SENSIBLE & SAFE 14.2-15.2hh Gelding Cob type horse, aged 15yrs +.

Must be prepared to give a minimum of 1 month’s trial. If you have one for sale/loan or know anybody who does please contact Tracy on 0151 548 1524 or email: manager@acornfarm.co.uk.

Thank you

HO HO HO! The countdown to Christmas is on, and Santa’s grotto is filling up fast! Santa can’t wait to meet you all in his magical grotto!!

🎟️LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE🎟️

❄️Saturday 14th December❄️- SOLD OUT

❄️Sunday 15th December❄️- SOLD OUT!

Our Christmas Market is on both days, and has lots of amazing goodies for you to buy, including cakes and bakes, jewellery, wax melts and more

Due to popular demand we have added an additional date! Our grotto will be open on Saturday 21st December

12pm-2pm, this is a ticket only event, tickets can be purchased in our shop or by emailing admin@acornfarm.co.uk

🎄See you on the farm soon!🎄

Please email education@acornfarm.co.uk for more information, or enquire in the shop!

Please email admin@acornfarm.co.uk for more information, or enquire in the shop!

On Wednesday 2nd October we will be hosting a coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. There will be a variety of treats available. We hope you can join us to enjoy some delicious cake and raise some money for such an amazing charity
#macmillancancersupport #macmillancoffeemorning #charitysupport

Our plant sales area is fully stocked with beautiful bedding plants, basket plants, pots and hanging basket.

Come along and see our lovely range.

We have something for everyone gardens

We are very proud to say that Oak Tree Café has maintained a 5 Star Food Hygiene Rating by the Food Standards Agency/KMBC.

We would like to thank Jane our Café Manager and all the kitchen staff for all their hard work

We are excited for half term! We will have small animal petting sessions and horse rides on everyday from Saturday 10th February-Sunday 18th February. No booking is necessary, tickets are available to buy on the day!

We are open everyday 10am-4pm! Every weekend we have small animal petting sessions and horse rides! No booking is necessary, tickets are available to by from the shop

On Friday 22nd December at 3pm we will close for our Christmas shutdown we will reopen on Tuesday 2nd January at 10am 🎅🎄🎁 #christmasbreak #christmas #closedforchristmas #farm #newyear

On Friday 15th December our café will be closed to visitors, due to our Christmas meal for the people we support and staff The farm will be open as normal 10am-4pm. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. The café will be open as normal 10am-3pm Saturday 16th December

On Monday 13th November-Friday 17th November we will be running an amazing special offer! For just £10 you will receive 1 x adult admission, 1 x child admission, 1 x children meals and 1 x tea or coffee! This will be available to purchase from our shop

We are looking forward to welcoming you on Tuesday 31st October for our Halloween fun day!

Tickets for our Santa’s Grotto are now on sale in our shop! The grotto is open 12pm-3pm Saturday 9th December & Sunday 10th December 2023. Tickets are £6 (normal farm admission apply)

Less than 3 weeks to until our Halloween fun day! We has lots of games planned! Who will be brave enough to enter our haunted house We will also be having a fancy dress competition so dress to impress

Our Halloween fun day will be held on Tuesday 31st October! Last year the fun day was a big success and such a fun day!

We will have lots of fun games & prizes, a fancy dress competition and our spooky haunted house! Normal admission prices apply. Tickets for the haunted house and games will be available to purchase on the day 🎃

The school holidays are now in full swing! We have Small animal petting sessions and horse rides on daily until 3rd September. We have host 2 fantastic experience day and they children had so much fun 🙂 We still have spaces available on our upcoming Farm experience days and Horse day for beginners. For more information please contact Marie on 01515481524 or education@acornfarm.co.uk 🐮🐷🐰🐴

Our summer holiday activities will begin on Monday 17th July with small animal petting session everyday until 3rd September! Horse rides will run everyday from Monday 23rd July until 3rd September! We will have craft activities and story time with Marie on various days throughout the summer!

Are you looking for activities for the kids in the school holidays? We will be running some of our popular Farm experience and Horse day for beginners days! For more information or to book please contact Marie on 0151 548 1524 or education@acornfarm.co.uk

We have some exciting plans to share with you!

For some time now we have been aware that our farm building (which was built back in 1987 when Acorn Farm was created) is no longer suitable for the number of visitors which we now receive. So we have ambitious plans to build a new “farm hub” which among other facilities will provide a much larger shop and cafe and better toilet facilities with improved accessibility for all (Visitors, service users and staff)

Now seems to be the right time to try to make this long held dream into a reality.

KMBC who are our landlords have for a number of years wanted to reconfigure our farm site by relocating the Moses paddocks to an adjoining site. This in turn would release the current Moses paddocks site and adjacent fields for commercial development which will bring much needed income into the Borough.

Following much discussion, it was agreed that if Acorn Farm agreed to this then KMBC would fund the installation of the services and facilities currently on the Moses paddocks onto the new site. This includes paddocks,fences,animal shelters,paths and the water supply) As our lease didn’t have long to run, we thought we had better agree!

We are nearly ready to move some of our animals on to the new site. KMBC have been very accommodating in extending the date as to when this move needs to take place and we are grateful to them for this.

Meantime we have had plans drawn up for our new farm hub building. DKArchitects in Liverpool have been extremely generous with their time and expertise in helping us to develop our ideas and incorporate them into the building design.

If you would like to see the proposed design, please see the link below.

https://www.dk-architects.com/wp-content/uploads/Walk-Through-1.mov

Once you have viewed the design we would be very interested to receive your feedback and suggestions.

BUT (there is always a but!)

We need to raise a substantial sum of money before our dream can come true.

It has always been our philosophy to keep all of our charges to a minimum so that EVERYONE can afford to visit Acorn Farm and give their kids a great day out. However, this means that we don’t generate large profits which can be invested back into the farm to fund improvements.

If you would like to help us fundraise to reach our target, we would be so grateful. Please contact Becky on admin@acornfarm.co.uk with your ideas.

Together we can safeguard the future of Acorn Farm so that we can continue to serve the community for generations to come.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Hip Hip Horray! Half term is nearly here! From Saturday 27th May-Sunday 4th June we will be running our holidays activities everyday! Small animal petting will run every 30 minutes from 10.30am with the last session at 3.30pm. Horse rides will run from 1.30pm-3pm. Tickets will be available to buy from the kiosk!

On Saturday 6th May Kathy gave birth to 8 piglets! Both mum and piglets are doing well! We are hoping she will bring them out to say hello soon 🙂

We are open all Coronation bank holiday weekend 10am-4pm. We will have small animal petting sessions from 10.30am and horse rides from 1.30pm. Tickets are available to buy from the kisok 🙂

A massive welcome the new arrivals at the farm! 2 male alpacas 🙂 We would like to send a big THANK YOU to Stuart Baldwin at SED Services for kindly donating them to us

Pearl gave birth to boy/girl twins on Sunday 16th April! They are doing well and settling in at the farm. How beautiful are they 🙂

We will be running small animal petting session on Monday 17th April and Tuesday 18th April. Sessions will begin at 10.30am. Tickets will be available to purchase from the shop. Normal admission prices apply.