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Enterprises

We have a number of social enterprises in the Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset areas. They offer people with learning disabilities and autism opportunities to gain work skills, vocational training, and paid employment.

Elm Tree Farm

Elm Tree Farm is a vibrant, colourful place; a piece of the countryside in the middle of Bristol. It is a care farm, producing a wide variety of nutritious produce grown using organic farming methods and breeding a range of livestock. Over 50 people with learning disabilities and autism work at the Farm.

All produce grown and raised on the Farm, can be bought from the onsite farm shop, open Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00am–5.00pm. For more information, please visit the Elm Tree Farm website.

Meet the Elm Tree Farm gardeners

Grounds & Gardens

Grounds & Gardens provides high-quality, competitively priced gardening and grounds maintenance to organisations and households in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset. It provides paid employment opportunities. For more information, please visit the Grounds & Gardens website.

Greenfields Project

Greenfields Project offers older people opportunities to get involved in a variety of gardening and craft activities. They produce and sell their wares, including fresh fruit, vegetables, and salad, as well as wood products such as planting boxes, bird houses, and kindling.

Products are available to buy directly from Lawrence Weston Community Farm (from the Greenfields cabin on the left-hand side as you enter the Farm), and also our charity shops in Bristol.

Greenfields Project

Volunteers transform Greenfields

Thanks to the generosity and hard work of volunteer groups, we've been making improvements at Greenfields. The project not only look great, but accessibility has also been increased, meaning that even more people can now enjoy the activities on offer.

Volunteers transform Greenfields

Ceramics studios

We run two creative and lively ceramics studios; Banwell Pottery in Worle, near Weston-super-Mare, and Fired Up Ceramics in Yate, near Bristol. They offer practical work experience, training opportunities, and supported employment.

Banwell Pottery

The potters produce unique designs inspired by the things they see around them, and make these designs into finished products, including ceramic tiles and coasters, hanging decorations, and greetings cards.

They exhibit and sell their work at a variety of craft and art fairs across North Somerset and Bristol, as well as direct from the studio at @Worle and the Brandon charity shops. You can also have a go at designing and making ceramics yourself at evening classes. For more information, please visit the Banwell Pottery website.

Supported employment at Banwell Pottery

Fired Up Ceramics

Products are made by hand from start to finish, so every item is unique. There are a range of painting hobby classes and occasional workshops. The studio also offers private parties and group activities on evenings and weekends.

Products are available to buy from the onsite shop and from the Brandon charity shops. They also attend craft fairs in and around Bristol. For more information, please visit the Fired Up Ceramics website.

Fired Up Ceramics

Cafes

We run two cafes in the Bristol/South Gloucestershire area; Barn Café and The Hatch at Grimsbury Farm in Kingswood.

The cafes provide opportunities for vocational training and paid employment. The aim is to help people transition into the workplace, and gain transferable life and social skills. They make and sell delicious freshly prepared food and tasty cakes.

Barn Cafe at Grimsbury Farm

Enterprise Packaging

Enterprise Packaging fill orders for transplant retrieval kits for use across the NHS. The project provides vocational training and paid employment for people with learning disabilities and autism.

Enterprise Packaging

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