UK: Liverpool’s Tam O’Shanter Urban Farm holding ‘come and see us’ day
“We can now offer volunteer placements in admin support, archiving and recording, customer care and events management, educational support, horticulture and allotment development, conservation ranger, site maintenance, daily site and animal care.”
By Craig Manning
Wirral Globe
Jan 3, 2023
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Treasurer and trustee of the farm’s Trust, Jo Wood MBE – whose father Harold Burns helped build Tam O’Shanter in the 1970s – told the Globe: “After a year that began in despair, we are immensely proud of the huge advances we have made in 2022.
“Our appeal last January for professionals to come and help us sustain, maintain and develop our beautiful urban farm, was heard.
“Within a few months we had developed a team of tough cookies with experience in leadership, teaching, fundraising, retail management, project management and charity and financial management to carry us through a challenging time.
“Over the course of 2022 we have tackled everything that life has thrown at us, turning new Environmental Health regulations into opportunities for change, battling through Avian Flu, writing policies and procedures until the ink ran dry and even achieving new tenants for our much-loved café when our former tenants retired from the business.”
“We have needed to invest heavily to stay on the right side of the law and can only begin to thank the many substantial and small but regular donors who have helped us make it this far.
“Special thanks has to go to the many local and national bodies for supplying a fireproof hay and straw store, building a new bin store, purchasing a new pig pen and completing our education centre.
