Welcome to Easterbrook Farm
A unique residential home for adults with learning disabilities in the heart of rural Devon.
[/fusion_text]Easterbrook Farm’s focus is to support physically able people with moderate to severe learning disabilities, with or without challenging behaviour, who wish to lead active and fulfilling lives in a rural environment and to practice and develop their life skills. Our aim is that people with a learning disability have opportunities to develop personal and life skills in a comfortable, open and vibrant residential environment.
About Us
Easterbrook is a working farm and everyone who lives here has ownership of their environment. This requires everyone to break away from the thought of the usual day-care routine (9am – 5pm Mon – Fri) and embrace the idea that a farm requires attention seven days a week and at unsociable hours. With this comes great responsibility but even greater rewards as life, at Easterbrook Farm, is full of enriching and fulfilling experiences.
We recognise individual aspiration and delight when personal objectives are achieved: we work alongside people to support them in planning their lives, make choices, and achieve their goals. We aim to achieve equality and participation within an open society where both those who live here and our staff are valued and respected with the same human and civil rights as everyone else. This attitude forms the basis of all working policies and practices within Easterbrook. “Success is an attitude”
Easterbrook Farm is arranged in 3 detached buildings:
“The Farmhouse” consists of 4 bedrooms and large communal areas.
“The Granary” has 6 bedrooms, all ensuite. There is a communal lounge, kitchenette and the ground floor bedroom. The entire ground floor has wheelchair access.
“The Shippen” is a 2 bedroom cottage with ensuite toilet facilities, bathroom, large lounge/kitchen. The design and arrangement of rooms has been deliberately created to provide a large amount of communal space and also to afford privacy in general conformity to CQC minimum standards. Each room is different in design to promote individuality and to avoid institutional environments.
Being a farm based service, everyone is encouraged to participate in maintaining the welfare of all animals living on the farm and engage in whatever supported activities they may choose and which may be planned including:
- Drama & Acting
- Sport including Swimming, Fencing & Riding
- Shopping
- Visiting the Cinema, Church & Local Pubs
- Country Walks & Rambling (Dartmoor/Exmoor)
- Pottery, Arts & Crafts
- Trips to the beach & holidays
Physiotherapy and Speech & Language Therapy is available, as required, as part of the general services provided by Devon County Council and local National Health Trusts. National Health services are available to everyone who needs to use them. For a more comprehensive list of activities available to people at Easterbrook Farm see “Activities” below.
Activities & Integration
- Grass Cutting
- Hedge Row Maintenance
- Tidying Up & Sweeping
- Painting
- Woodland Upkeep
- Fence Upkeep
- Clearing River Ways
- Animal Care – Chicken Care – Feeding, Cleaning Out, Egg Collecting
- Rabbit Care – Feeding, Cleaning Out
- Pony Care – Feeding, Clearing Field & Yard, Grooming
- Horticulture/Gardening – Weeding
- Planting Flowers, Vegetables & Fruit Bushes/Trees
- Poly Tunnel Maintenance
- Harvesting Crops
- Clearing & Sweeping
- Preparing Produce To Sell
- Helping prepare main meals
- Cake baking
- Making Chutneys & Jams With Our Own Produce
- Preparing Produce To Freeze
- Individuals Own Bedrooms
- Communal Living Spaces
- Recycling
- General handicrafts and painting
- Projects such as making greetings cards, kites, decorations, pumpkin carving
- Woodwork, joinery & restoration
- Pond Watch
- Woodland Observation
- Bird Watching
- We place great emphasis upon the creation and maintenance of Person Centred Plans particular to each housemate
- Conservation at Sticklepath
- Castle Drogo
- Music Shop
- Local Garage
- Exbourne Shop – Selling Our Own Produce
- Horse Riding
- Fencing
- Drama Club
- Swimming
- Pub Trips
- Skittles
- Car Boot Sales
- Puzzle Tree Drop In
- Personal Shopping
- Household Shopping Including Visiting Local Butchers
- Cinema
- Local Events/Shows
- Fun Days
- Keep Fit
- Coffee Mornings
- Circus & Fun Fair (When In Town)
- Carnivals
- Table Tennis
- Bowls
- College Courses
- Aerobics/Dancing/Disco/Clubbing
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