Based at Duckyls Farm in East Grinstead, Sussex, Diagrama Community Services is a day opportunities service that provides educational activities for people with learning and/or physical disabilities, sensory impairment and acquired brain injury. Through this service offered at Duckyls Farm in East Grinstead (and other locations in Mid-Sussex) we now provide a wide choice of occupational opportunities and activities, supporting people to develop skills that promote independence and lead to employment opportunities.
Our life skills activities include looking after farm animals, growing vegetables, fruit and flowers, woodwork, cooking, art and craft and daily life skills. Our Service Users have created a vibrant community, and we have a wonderful learning space for them that provides new, inspiring challenges and opportunities to learn throughout the changing seasons on a 100-acre site of outstanding natural beauty.
For more information on the opportunities we offer and how you can take part, contact Keri Strugnell, Care Farm and Community Manager: keri.strugnell@diagrama.org.uk
Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm
Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm offers enriching day opportunities for individuals with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, sensory impairments, and acquired brain injuries.
Set in the beautiful surroundings of a 100-acre farm in East Grinstead, Sussex, the service provides hands-on activities such as animal care, gardening, cooking, woodwork, and arts and crafts. These life-skills based experiences promote independence, confidence, and pathways to employment—all within a vibrant, supportive community environment.
Diagrama Foundation founded Community Services in 2023, based on our 100 acre farm in West Sussex providing Day Opportunities, Hub and Outreach Support for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
Activities on the farm make use of our outstanding natural environment:
- Animal care: handling, feeding and grooming animals (small/large)
- Gardening and Food Crop Production
- Farm maintenance and land management: sustainable farming and biodiversity cultivation, (dead hedging/tree planting)
- And a full range of building-based activities in our on-site workshops and in the community :
- Woodworking: creating bird boxes, planters, etc.
- Art & crafts: seasonal creative projects.
- Catering and cookery: menu planning, creative cooking, ‘farm to fork’ using our own (and local) products to develop healthy eating habits.
- Functional skills and life skills sessions, including recognising/using money, online safety.
The programme includes community-based activities, e.g. volunteering (tree planting, pathway management), ‘Coffee, Cake and Chatter’ combatting loneliness in the older community, selling produce/crafts at local fairs.
If you are an adult with a Learning Disability near East Grinstead area and are looking to gain skills on the farm, do get in touch:
