Juggling and Jiving in June

🌺SPECIAL EVENTS:  SUMMER 2025 🌺

🎪🫧SUMMER FAIR: SATURDAY 28TH JUNE: 11-3
Games and activities for kids; silent disco; family bike rides; stalls / the café with Bridgend Farmhouse handmade goods, food and drink [including pakora] on sale; music, hill race, and lots more!
Adult entry by donation, kids go free [but must be accompanied by an adult] - booking is essential for all – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1363365425689. 🫧🎪

🚵SUMMER WEEKLY FRIDAY LED BIKE RIDES ARE UNDERWAY, 2-4PM- Booking essential, bikes/ helmets available to borrow🚲

🍴WEDNESDAYS: 5pm – 6pm: COMMUNITY MEAL: Our weekly, home-cooked community meal for anyone wanting good food and company. Come and enjoy🍽️

ADULT ADHD ‘MANAGEMENT’ COURSE:  Understand your ADHD brain, find/ gain strategies for daily life, make supportive connections. Discounts may be available for low income/ unwaged. We're nearly finishd the current 6 week block, but do contact [email protected] to register interest in the next course set for when dates are known, most likely in the autumn.
  
STAINED GLASS WORKSHOPS:
Make your own agate tealight holder, all materials & tuition supplied. Cost £25 [£20 with neighbour card]. Workshops run 10-3 on Saturdays.  Summer dates are now confirmed as June 7th, July 5th, July 19th, August 2nd.   Book via [email protected]


🗓️THIS MONTH...🗓️
 
OUR CAFÉ IS OPEN AS USUAL:  WED - SUN 11am – 4pm (last orders for hot meals: 2:30pm)
Delicious scones, cakes, hot meals, drinks. Daily specials. Vegetarian and vegan options available.
 
ONSITE PARKING:  IS LIMITED TO BLUE BADGE HOLDERS AND OUR LESS MOBILE CUSTOMERS: Please come by foot, bike, or scooter or on public transport if you can. The 24, 33, 38, & 49 buses stop just outside. Cameron Toll Shopping Centre has parking only a few minutes’ walk away.
 
🅿️TO HELP MAINTAIN LOCAL GOODWILL, PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK THE RESIDENTS’ PARKING NEAR THE ROADSIDE GATE OR  (THE ROADWAY TO) THE LARGE ALLOTMENTS ACCESS GATE.🅿️
 
🚲THE BIKE WORKSHOP IS Open for hires, sales, repairs & other maintenance, and bike donations on Wed,Fri & Sat, 11am-4pm].🚲
For drop offs/ appointments/ enquiries, please use [email protected] / 07591 882 779.


📅REGULAR WEEKLY ACTIVITIES... 📅
(gardening/outdoor/cycling activities listed separately at end)

TUESDAY
2pm – 3.30pm: “TALK TIME” WELLBEING GROUP. Our regular drop-in providing a space to come and chat about how you’re doing and listen to others in a relaxed, supportive environment. Open to all.  You can let us know you are coming via [email protected] or just pop along.
 
WEDNESDAY
10am – 11am: WALKING GROUP: Meet at the farmhouse.
​The group goes on short, local walks at a relaxed, chatty pace, led by trained Health Walk leaders.
 
10am-noon: NATURE PLAY: In the bothy/ play space with Trees and Seas Outdoor Adventures  
Book via their website for assorted child-led outdoor activities from crafts and construction, to bug hunts and bushcraft. For children 6 & under and their carers.
PLUS… STAY and PLAY: Typically  1ST Saturday of the month [next event 7th June]
AND... FORESTS FOR ALL: Usually 2nd Saturday of the month [next event 14th June]
 
11am – 12pm, Monthly- on the 1st Wednesday of the month, W/shop 3: WELL BEING WOMEN’S GROUP: This group is an opportunity to chat in a friendly, welcoming environment over tea and biscuits, no subject is off limits. Next meeting date 4th June.  [Note there’s no need to book for 'normal' meetings].
 
2pm - 4pm: ARTS AND CRAFTS WEDNESDAYS: Suitable for all experience levels. Informal - bring your own projects & get some ideas, hints, & tips from your fellow participants. This is a facilitated session so assistance would be available.
 
5.30pm – 8.30pm WOODCRAFT with Oliver   . FREE! Learn wood working skills with an experienced woodcarver, in workshop 4. Booking now required due to high numbers - [email protected]
 
THURSDAY
10am-1pm: Making for BRIDGEND Group
Reuse materials to create items for sale in our café and at external events to further farmhouse’s work & aims of self-sustainability. Products include fabric crafts, cards & jewellery. Tea‘n’biscuits & cheery chat provided . Contact [email protected] for more info.
 
6pm - 8pm THURSDAY CRAFT CLUB: Workshop 3   £4 per session Bring along your own craft project to sit with likeminded crafters who enjoy a cup of tea, a bit of cake and a bit of banter in a casual relaxed atmosphere, swapping crafting tips.  Spaces are limited by the room size, and they only meet when there’s  folk booked - please do this via [email protected]
 
FRIDAY
2pm-3pm ADULTS’ YOGA: Whether you are new to or familiar with yoga these classes will help you develop balance, strength & flexibility through movement & stretching. Booking essential via [email protected] and pay on the day [£4, or £3 with neighbours’ card].
 

🧑‍🌾GARDENING AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES🪚     
                                                                                                                    
GET GARDENING:
TUESDAY AND / OR FRIDAY, 10.30AM – 3.30PM
We welcome gardening volunteers to help us manage our gardening allotment plots but have limited slots to maximise experience; therefore a waiting list is in operation. Lunch provided. To register interest please email [email protected] [26 y.o. plus] or [email protected] [~16-25].
 
THE BIG WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY SESSIONS: SUNDAY AND / OR  WEDNESDAY, 11am – 3pm
There is still potentially some capacity for these - to find out more and get involved contact [email protected] [26 y.o. plus] or [email protected] [~16-25] .
 

🚵CYCLING RELATED ACTIVITIES: BOOKING ESSENTIAL🚲

WHEELY FUN FRIDAYS with ‘A Wee Pedal’. At, or starting at, at Bridgend Farmhouse! Supported by Cycling Scotland, & Paths for All.
Suggested donations in brackets [£]. Booking essential via [email protected]
 
INCLUDING…
GUIDED BIKE RIDES: Summer rides start weekly, 2-4pm, from 4th April [to 31st Oct].
Pace is gentle and social on mostly flat, off main road, routes. Destinations vary within an 8-10 mile range – the group has visited the Meadows, Portobello Beach, and more.  Hire an e-bike [£5] or borrow a pedal bike for free [Helmets included]. Children welcome - but must be accompanied by, and be, a capable rider.
 
BIKE MAINTENANCE: Last Friday of the month, 10am to noon, May to October- next spaces July.
Suggested Donation £5. Covers all the basic safety checks, puncture repair, etc