HOW TO JOIN

You can join Farms for Schools on-line.
Please click here to fill in the registration form

Membership(which will now be valid until the end of 2010) costs £95.00 per annum for fee-charging members and £45.00 pa for those who offer free admission. Cheques should be made payable to The CFE.

Membership Information

Membership to FFS includes:

A Certificate, which confirms that you subscribe to our 'Charter of Good Practice'. Inspections of farms are made periodically on a random basis, to ensure that standards are maintained and to offer members advice/recommendations.
Regional support networks.
Representation of the sector at a national level.
The Countryside Foundation for Education and FACE are joining forces to deliver 4 Regional Conferences in February, April, October and December. These events will allow Farms for Schools members and FACE farm members and others to meet and tackle the key issues facing our sector today. Members both host the events and contribute to suggestions for topics the meetings can cover. These events offer a fantastic networking opportunity and a showcase for the host venue.
An opportunity to become involved in the Accreditation Scheme for farms that take school & educational visits. This scheme is aiming to improve the quality of farm visits for both schools and farms. Both strands of the scheme are now up and running, please ask for further information.
Advice, information and support on a wide variety of relevant issues through the FFS office and the website, which also provides numerous very useful links with related organisations.
An entry for your farm on the Farms For Schools website, which serves an average of 5000 sessions per month. The Farms for Schools website can also be accessed via its own menu button on
The Countryside Foundation for Education website.
Being a FFS member also entitles you to automatic entry onto two other websites.
The Growing Schools website www.growingschools.org.uk
The Access to Farms website www.farmgarden.org.uk/partnerships/access-to-farms

Farms for Schools is a member of the Access to Farms Partnership.
Access to Farms partner organisations are:

Country Land & Business Association (CLA), Countryside Foundation for Education (CFE), Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Farming And Countryside Education (FACE), Farms for Schools (FFS), Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG), Groundwork UK (GW), Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF), National Farmers Union (NFU), National Farm Attractions Network (NFAN), Natural England (NA), The Country Trust (CT), The National Trust (NT), The Soil Association (SA).