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Cathy's blog: Now we can make the farm real!
25/03/2013

Cathy's blog: Now we can make the farm real!

Cathy tells us what's next after The Secret Millions, now that the Big Lottery Fund has given Papworth Trust £2 million to offer farm breaks for disabled people and their families:

I'm so happy to see our project out there and so excited that we've won the money to make it a reality. Families from anywhere in the UK can now apply to have the experience you saw on The Secret Millions.

Our permanent farm will be about families going away to have some respite together, rather than the disabled family member going off for respite alone and the family having a break without them. It is about doing something different together, somewhere other than their usual environment.

The Jimmy's Farm experience on Channel 4's The Secret Millions was a trial run for Papworth Trust's Kerry Farm. If you come to Kerry Farm you'll try something really amazing. You can do some things as a family, some things apart and have a brilliant experience. Everybody should be able to take things from that week forward and continue with those changes in their lives.

Find out more about the free respite holidays we're offering at Kerry Farm at www.papworth.org.uk/kerryfarm.