Free 2 Hour Education Visits to Regather Farm

Regather Farm offers free 2 hour educational visits for schools and education groups in the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area. Visits are led by a member of the Regather Farm team and use the farm as a living classroom to explore food growing, conservation, farming, land management and the natural world.

Step 1: Complete Pre Visit Checks

Before checking availability and making a provisional booking for a free 2 hour visit, please make sure you can answer YES to all of the following:

• Our group will include no more than 15 young people under age 18 years, plus a nominated Visiting Group Leader and the appropriate staff to fully meet the needs of the group throughout the visit.
• We understand that Regather Farm staff will lead the farm visit, but cannot provide additional supervision or personal support for the group.
• We can arrange our own minibus transport to and from the farm.
• Our main vehicle will be no larger than one long wheelbase minibus, typically 15–20 seats.
• We understand the site is rural, sloping and uneven, with earth and grass surfaces.
• We understand the site is not currently suitable for wheelchairs or prams.
• Everyone in our group can bring suitable clothing, footwear and drinking water.
• We understand there is no mains drinking water, electricity, heating or internet connection on site.
• The Visiting Group Leader agrees to complete the required site visit declaration form and evaluation form before leaving the site visit.
• We have read the Regather Farm Visits webpage in full.

Step 2: Provisionally Book Your Farm Visit

To check availability and provisionally book a visit, please use the online calendar.

If you have read this webpage in full and have any further questions before making a provisional booking, please use the contact form below.

Step 3: Receive Booking Confirmation

Farm visits are provisionally booked using the online calendar. After any necessary arrangements have been discussed and agreed the Regather Farm team will send the Visiting Group Leader an email to confirm the visit booking.

Information for teachers and group leaders

About Regather Farm

Regather Farm is a 15-acre certified organic community market garden. The focus is on organic vegetable growing, agroforestry, which means farming with trees, and working with natural ecosystems.

Visits can help pupils explore food growing, farming, conservation, land management, soil, plants, trees, wildlife, seasonal change and the links between food, people and nature.

Visits are suitable for school and education groups where the teacher or group leader is confident that the pupils can safely manage a rural outdoor site for 2 hours.

Booking and cost

Visits are free of charge if they last for 2 hours, involve 4 or more people, and the Visiting Group Leader completes a simple site visit declaration form and a site visit evaluation form before leaving the site. This is made possible by the DEFRA Countryside Stewardship ED1 subsidy for educational visits.

To check availability and provisionally book a visit, please use the online calendar.

Typically we operate visits on a calendar year basis, offering one 2 hour visit opportunity every Tuesday and Thursday, during school term time, between the February and October half term holidays of that calendar year.

2026 Season: 23rd February – 23rd October
2027 Season: 22nd February – 22nd October
2028 Season: 21st February – 20th October

Each visit lasts for 2 hours.

We can host a maximum of 15 children or young people, plus accompanying school staff or adults. Due to our site and facilities, we can only host one group at a time.

Farm visits are provisionally booked using the online calendar. After any necessary arrangements have been discussed and agreed the Regather Farm team will send the Visiting Group Leader an email to confirm the visit booking.

The visit

The visit will be led by a member of the Regather Farm team, who will show your group around the site, explaining links between farming, conservation, food production and land management using the land as a living classroom.

The visit will start and end at our indoor classroom facility, which is located next to the vehicle parking area.

During the visit there will be opportunities to ask and answer questions, take a short comfort break and take an optional group photo.

Visitors can change into suitable clothing and footwear, and safely leave non-valuable items in the indoor classroom facility.

Visits are designed as 2 hour sessions. If you would like pupils to eat lunch on site, this will involve eating lunch in the indoor classroom facility between 11.30am and 12.30pm, which is either the hour after your morning visit, or the hour before your afternoon visit. Please indicate this on the online booking form. Bin bags will be provided. All waste must be taken away for responsible disposal.

Supervision and safety

The visiting school or group is responsible for supervising pupils throughout the visit. Regather Farm staff will lead the visit, but cannot provide additional staffing to meet the needs of individual pupils or the group.

You should bring enough staff to fully meet the needs of your pupils and comply with your own school or organisation’s policies.

Visiting schools and organisations are responsible for completing their own risk assessment before the visit. Regather will send a risk assessment to the Visiting Group Leader upon confirmation of booking.

There is no livestock on the site, either currently or at any point in the past 5 years.

Pupils should wear suitable outdoor clothing and footwear for a rural farm site. The site can be muddy, wet, windy, cold or sunny depending on the weather and time of year.

Pupils should bring suitable clothing, suitable footwear and their own drinking water.

Visits are outdoor farm visits and may go ahead in normal wet or cold weather if it is safe to do so. If extreme weather makes the visit unsafe, we will discuss rearranging the visit.

Site facilities

The site has a dedicated indoor classroom facility suitable for up to 20 people. It is clean, tidy, naturally lit, weatherproof, and has tables and chairs. It does not have electricity, heating, mains water or an internet connection.

The site has eco-friendly outdoor compost toilets, with two private, lockable cubicles accessed using 2 wooden surfaced steps. It has cold water and soap handwash facilities.

The handwashing water is supplied from the on-site borehole. The water is suitable for handwashing, but it is not suitable for drinking.

Mains drinking water is not available on site. You must bring your own drinking water.

There is no electricity, heating, internet connection or Wi-Fi available on site.

Access and terrain

Regather Farm is a sloping site, in a rural setting with uneven earth and grass ground surfaces.

At this time the site is unsuitable for wheelchairs or prams.

The suitability of the visit for pupils with additional needs depends on the needs of the pupils and the staffing you can provide. Please consider the rural, sloping and uneven nature of the site, the toilet access arrangements, and the lack of mains water, electricity, heating and internet.

Travel and arrival

Vehicle access to the site is via a narrow country lane, which is a single track road at certain points with blind corners. The lane is shared by several neighbouring farms, and is always busy with other cars, vans, trucks and tractors.

The site entrance is clearly signposted. Vehicle entry to the site is through a wide gate onto a large area of hardstanding, suitable for parking and turning around.

The largest vehicle we can accommodate on site is one long wheelbase minibus, typically 15–20 seats. The site is not suitable for coach access.

Please arrive at the agreed visit time and follow the site signage. A member of the Regather Farm team will meet you at the parking area and indoor classroom facility.

Forms and follow-up

The Visiting Group Leader must complete a simple site visit declaration form and a site visit evaluation form before leaving the site.

An optional group photo can be taken during the visit. Visiting schools and organisations are responsible for managing photo permissions for their pupils.

If you have questions that are not answered here, please use the contact form below to get in touch before making your provisional booking.