Highfield

A registered charity has purchased a property close to Penrith in Cumbria, to provide a forever home for 1 person and 2 ‘revolving door’ places in the house for adults looking to move out of their family homes and take the first step to independent living. 

The support provided is for adults who are on the autistic spectrum and learning disabilities, it is the tenants home. Building independent skills: looking after your home from washing clothes and dishes to mowing the grass and looking after pets, cooking, and sharing great recipes and adapting to life away from their family homes, carving out and living their ‘best lives’ 

4EDEN have recruited a team of highly skilled staff who work around the needs of the tenants, ensuring that the values of 4EDEN and those of The Lakeland Autistic Charity are promoted. 

The home is a large property within a small community, it has stunning views across the fells and is only a short drive from Penrith. Surrounded by countryside and walks and close to many tourist attractions – the gateway to the Lakes! 

At the front is a large paddock that we will be using  for small farm animals such as chickens and pet lambs and hopefully a piglet or 2! 

Once we get the polytunnel up and running – we can start growing vegetables and cooking delicious meals.

This will create further opportunities for the tenants to build up skills and responsibilities, learn life cycles and harvest to use in their cooking. 

We invite you to be a supporter of this journey, enabling access to lifelong learning, furthering skills and interests and living our ‘best life’ 

We have recently built a new shed block that we will utilise over the winter and prepare for next year when we hope to introduce a few farm animals. 

If you would like to volunteer your time and skills to share your knowledge in animal husbandry, gardening, vegetable growing and harvesting then please click here to enquire further. 

Or if you would prefer to make a financial donation – click here.