The Magdalen Environmental Trust is a charity based on an organic farm, which is the setting for most of our work.
Our vision is of a sustainable future in which a healthy environment and thriving, fulfilled communities are integral and essential to one another.
Our purpose is:
To help people recognise their environment as integral to their wellbeing.
To strive towards sustainability in our practices, and demonstrate it in action.
To provide understanding and enhanced wellbeing through inspirational experiential learning for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
To use sound organic farming and conservation practices which enhance biodiversity, while recognising the needs of a hungry world.
Magdalen is an environmental education charity founded in 1991, which is based on an exceptionally beautiful 132-acre West Country organic farm. Around 5,000 children and adults - many of them from urban backgrounds with no previous experience of the English countryside - engage with us each year on one-day visits or for longer residential stays. We have overnight accommodation for up to 50. Mainstream school groups constitute 75% of our clients, but we also run a thriving care farm.
Our relaxed farm and countryside environment is ideal for people with complex needs. We provide services to many children with physical and mental disabilities through Care Farming - the use of a working farm to promote mental and physical health. As one of the UK’s leading Care Farms, we hosted the first national Care Farming Quality Assurance conference in 2012, which led to the establishment of a national Code of Practice.
