Entries by camweb

Snakehall Scarecrows

If baking isn’t for you, why don’t you try your hand at making your own scarecrow. There is no theme, so the options are endless, from Harry Potter to a Roman Gladiator, let your imaginations go wild. The winner will receive 2 tickets to our Halloween Ghost Walk, here at Snakehall Farm.

The Great Snakehall Bake Off – 14th September 2019

Get your whisks ready for The Great Snakehall Bake off taking place at our 30th Anniversary Open Day. Judging will take place 13.30 and the winner will receive a voucher for Afternoon Tea for 2 at Carriages Tearooms near Cambridge. Good Luck and Get Baking!!!

30th Anniversary Open Day 14th September 2019

In just over a month we will be celebrating our 30th Birthday and to mark the occasion we will be having an Open Day. The gates will be opening at 11 and due to increased interest we will now be closing at 16.00. We have some fabulous stalls, musical events, vehicle displays, welly wanging and […]

A Resounding Success!

The Shovel the Hovel Project receives a boost of funding that made us all sing at Snakehall Farm this summer. The Prospects Trust received over £900 from ReSound after their beautiful summer concert. We spoke with our Trustee Jane Kershaw about her involvement with ReSound: “I am very proud to be a member of ReSound, […]

The Big Green Swish

Friday 19th July from 7pm at Prospects Trust Unwrapped 13 Lynn Road, Ely An amazing eco-event comes to Ely! The first opportunity to showcase our new shop (minus our produce but lots of pop up stalls and clothes rails instead). This is a fabulous community collaboration with our new friends at EcoEly, Ely Swish and […]

With a little help from our friends

The Ely shop is taking shape thanks to 100s of donated hours from great corporate groups and our firm friends (you know who you are). This week the wonderful Steve, Rupert, Martin and Giorgia from Mace left no job undone! Farm friend Ken H has been on the tools from the day we turned the […]

Unwrap your potential

Prospects Trust Trainee Placements are now available, starting from September 2019, we are bringing a new way to learn on to the high street of Ely. We are looking to recruit 20 new Co-worker Trainees to be our first cohort to gain accredited qualifications in retail and food safety. Take a look at our flexible […]

Weigh in Weigh in – Zero-Waste Heavyweights in Ely

Prospects Trust at Snakehall Farm has been the home of “naked” cucumbers since 1989. For 30 years we have never shrink wrapped our cucumbers and we have always sold locally grown organic produce direct to our customers in our little “veg shed” on the farm. Now we are bringing our old idea to Ely. By […]

Unwrapping a Refill Larder for Ely

Prospects Trust Unwrapped brings plastic wrap free shopping opportunity to Ely. The Refill Wall is starting to take shape in our shop front. It arrived by pallet (in lots and lots of wrapping – all being reused, re purposed or recycled) and took up the entire lobby of Lighthouse Ely.