Lords House Farm has been a unique, specialist centre providing a range of activities in the community.

Although we offer mainstream activities, we cater particularly for the disabled and disadvantaged adults and children. The charity is a non-profit making voluntary organisation, limited by guarantee and was established in 1993.

Originally set among rolling hills above Great Harwood in Lancashire Lords House Farm was an attractive and well laid out 30 acre site offering a range of unusual and therapeutic activities using horses, animals and the natural environment.

The Charity boasts an extensive collection of rare breed and extraordinary animals and reptiles that you would not expect to find outside of a zoo – you don’t really expect to see reindeer grazing happily alongside llamas and emus on your average farm! Education is the key to personal development and by combining fun activities with learning to care for horses and animals, Lords House Farm brings positive and lasting benefits to all who enter its gates.

Lords House Farm was founded in 1993 and remains to this day committed to raising the quality of life for anyone in the community who is disabled or disadvantaged in any way. As a registered Charity and Company limited by guarantee it has grew from a small voluntary organisation, mainly staffed by a committed team of volunteers, to a professional and thriving enterprise working with over 800 disabled or disadvantaged children a year, 60+ full time students from 16 to 80 years old and a range of community organisations every year.

Lords House Farm employed 27 staff and a bank of regular and dedicated volunteers.

The use of horses and animals has long been recognised as an effective and therapeutic method to change lives for the better. All who attend Lords House Farm to support its work, either as an employee or a volunteer, cannot fail to gain a great deal of personal satisfaction from watching beneficiaries grow in maturity, self esteem, confidence and develop a range of physical abilities and skills that change their lives.

What Next?

Due to a variety of reasons including the financial climate and a change in government funding policies, the trustees decided that a radical change was necessary both to ensure the long term survival of the charity and to extend its services into a new area.

The work of the charity is unique and it has wide reaching benefits that will be of great value to disabled and disadvantaged people in Cumbria. The charity has moved its operations to a new small site in Cumbria at the rear of  Llama Karma Kafe who have kindly donated the use of the land at the rear of the property to enable Lords House Farm to build new facilities from which to operate. In addition, the charity has the use of a small farm nearby where the larger animals and horses are kept.

Day care services as well as Alternative education programmes, regular and one off visits and therapeutic animal based activities are all on offer at the new site.

Lords House. Brougham, Penrith. Cumbria. CA10 2AB   01768 866776