There’s lots going on over summer to keep you and your children entertained. We really hope you can join us!

School’s Out For Summer

Saturday 23 July, 3-7pm
Free entry

Get into the summertime vibes with our family fun day.

We have loads of activities lined up including arts and crafts, cake decorating, games, a treasure hunt, baby play area, face painting, sponge tossing, Lego club, prizes to be won, jugs of Pimm’s on sale and a barbecue in the garden.

Library at Love’s Farm:
Super Happy Magic Launch

Monday 25 July, 10-11am
Free entry

Meet Matty Long, author of Super Happy Magic Forest and winner of the Cambridgeshire Libraries’ Read it Again Picture Book Award, and enjoy a fun session of drawing and storytelling.

The Library and Love’s Farm is a micro-library located in the foyer and café space at Love’s Farm House. It will be available for anyone to pop in and borrow a book to read here or take away with them, and there will be newspapers and magazines available too.

This launch event is kindly sponsored by Friends of St Neots Library.

St Neots Film Festival:
Video Production Workshops

Saturday 13 August, 10am-1pm & Saturday 10 September, 1-4pm
£5 per family (ages 7+) per session

Fancy making your own film? Want to see it on the big screen at Cineworld St Neots? St Neots Film Festival is joining forces with Love’s Farm Community Association to stage two video production workshops that will help take your project from concept to finished film.

The first workshop (13 August, 10am-1pm) will focus on planning and shooting. The second workshop (10 September, 1-4pm) is all about editing. Both are designed to be informative, inspiring and most of all, fun! They’re aimed at families (with children aged 7+) or groups of friends (aged 18+) and cost £5 per session per family or group.

The workshops will reveal what’s involved and provide lots of tips and tricks. Each family or group will then be supported as they work on their film in their own time. We’ll help you get your film finished in time for submission to St Neots Film Festival, which runs from 7th-11th November at Cineworld St Neots and Love’s Farm House. Deadline for submissions is 30 October. The first eight families/groups to sign up to both workshops will receive free software worth £33. Please email ben.pitt@ourlovesfarm.co.uk or call Love’s Farm House on 01480 262626 to book your place.

Switch Café

Thursdays and Fridays, 10am-2pm

Switch Café will be open throughout the summer holidays, serving a delicious selection of cakes, drinks, sausage rolls, salads and cheese toasties. Switch Café offers meaningful work placements and supported training for young adults (co-workers) with additional needs, to help progress them towards paid employment and more fulfilling futures. Any profits made are reinvested to support our co-workers development.

Farm House Coffee Shop

Tuesdays from 16 August, 9am-12:30pm

The Love’s Farm House volunteer team will be serving up home-baked cakes, luxurious hot chocolate, speciality teas and coffees on Tuesday mornings.

We’re taking a short break at the start of the summer holidays and will be open again from 16 August.

Nia is a fusion fitness class which draws from the wisdom of martial arts, dance arts and healing arts. During the classes you can connect to your body, relax your thinking mind, experiment with your emotions and have fun.

Classes last for an hour, and start on Wednesday 20 July at 5:30pm for an initial four-week run, until 10 August. They cost £7:50 per class, or £22.50 for the four-week block.

Contact Ildi at ildiko.miklos@hotmail.com or just turn up on the day.

https://nianow.com/Evelynmi  www.facebook.com/Ildinia

Update: This position has now been filled.

Love’s Farm House seeks to appoint an administrator to help with the day-to-day running of the community centre. The role will include managing bookings, contributing to the website, producing the What’s On guide, assisting hirers and visitors and being the friendly face of Love’s Farm House. The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills, meticulous attention to detail and a friendly, positive approach to customer care.

The post will be 15 hours per week, mostly weekday mornings but with flexibility to reflect the booking schedule and with the potential for overtime. £10 per hour.

To apply for this position please send a CV and covering letter setting out why you are suitable for this role to ben@lovesfarmhouse.co.uk. For more information please contact Ben on 01480 262626.

Please click here to read the job description, and here for the person specification.

Hi, my name is Ben Pitt, and I’m the chair of trustees for Love’s Farm House. I’m part of a team of local residents who have come together to form a charity that will manage the community centre when it opens. We’ve been working very hard behind the scenes for the last year – some of us for much longer – to get to where we are now. With construction due to start in a few days, we hope to have a more visible presence and improve communication between volunteers and the residents of St Neots.

We’ll use this website during the construction phase to post updates on progress – not just of the building but also what our team of volunteers is up to, and what you can expect to see happening at the centre when it opens in late summer 2015.

We want to hear from you too. Please get in touch at chair@lovesfarmhouse.co.uk to tell us what you want from the centre, ask questions, perhaps even to get involved. Once construction is complete, it’s down to us residents to manage the centre, filling it with the services and activities we want, paying the bills, hiring staff and making sure that it covers its costs. We’re already making key decisions about how it will be run, but there’s lots to do still. The best way to influence these decisions and plans is to get involved.