Corporate Volunteering

Enterprising Ideas to sustain Snakehall Farm

As a social enterprise we try to ensure our day to day running costs are covered by our services, training and of course our very yummy organic produce and crafty products. Running 18 acres, supporting lots of disabled but ambitious farmers and gardeners and keeping our farm in tip top shape takes more than the sale of cucumbers alone. We are truly grateful for the annual donations of time, resources, gifts and grants to keep our unique place growing for the future but one of our favourite things to offer is our Corporate Volunteering Days with a difference. Ditch the raft building and come drive a tractor instead – we are booking our 2023 days now!

Bring your work team to our work place

We have regular whole day (and sometimes week long) corporate volunteering days on the farm. We offer a very unique team building day, with businesses gifting their workforce and making a massive difference to our charity.

In 2022 we have been supported by over 20 different groups, from our partnership with Employee Volunteering, and our loyal Corporate Volunteers, who book in annually its been a very busy year meeting new supporters and getting lots of work done.  Over 250 individuals have given up their day to help in these corporate volunteering days this year alone.  From Art of Flooring starting the year right with a tree planting session in April to an Employee Volunteering facilitated group painting our Tea Barn this winter, we have been supported by so many.  A big thank you to our 2022 Corporate Volunteers from: Art of Flooring, Ethicon, Employee Volunteering, Astra Zeneca, Illumina, Homerton Change Makers, Arcadis, Markel and Care Choices who have all made a massive difference to The Prospects Trust. Who will join their ranks in 2023?   

Here are some of the corporate days we have hosted over recent years:

Take a look at videos and photo galleries created by the teams visiting from Arcadis and Markel Insurance to show just what impact one day can make to our charitable enterprise on our social media:

Over the past few years we have been really excited to work with Astra Zeneca on numerous volunteering events, from painting, farming and most recently tree planting their teams from across the country have got stuck in at Snakehall Farm. Even during lockdown, when on site sessions weren’t possible a team from Astra Zeneca joined our managers on a zoom chat to give their ideas and insights into our marketing our new venture; Prospects Trust Unwrapped. They suggested we needed to advertise our shop to visitors to Ely, particularly the tourists and newbies taking up residence. We took their advice an now annually appear in the Visit Ely brochure and we also see lots of AZ employees in our store each week too.

Skanska’s Lend a Hand initiative has visited on multiple occasions, creating a fully accessible chicken run for our free range feathered friends enabling all our Co-workers to take part in the daily care of our hens.  Manit’s volunteers originally came to help with the bus shelter, came back to help with a new car park area, came again and created a new patio area outside our Tea Barn for our Co-workers; lunchtime breaks and as they fell in love with the place even sponsored a Polytunnel! We are indebted to Manit when our rainwater irrigation system sprung a leak in all the wrong places (deep down in the hard to reach organic soil of our Far Field). They sprung to action and donated a mini digger for a few days of heavy excavations.

Our farm has been supported by the amazing work corporate work teams of Black Horse Finance who became Composting Conquerors, renovating & re-building our very vital compost area. The medical supply sales team, Ethicon, joined the Farm Team on one of the hottest days of July and sowed all of our garlic bulbs in record making time.  Perhaps we should have used a stopwatch and gone for a world record? Returning Gilead turned up with one of our biggest groups, 71 volunteers who transformed the farm with too many activities to count.

We are always seeking fundraisers doing something funny for money, businesses offering their time or expertise or volunteers able to dig dig dig what we do on the farm. Would you like to see your name here in the future? Give us a call we would love to hear from you.

We are proud to work in partnership with Employee Volunteering and directly with all of our Corporate and Community Volunteers.