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Business grant helps upgrade wifi

North Devon+ Business Boost 2 helping Devon businesses access grant funding from the UK Share Prosperity Fund

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New donkeys join the team

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Exmoor Dark Skies Aurora

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Costello completes his first year

Costello our amazing donkey When we brought Costello to the farm back in 2008, he was given all the...

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This years ducklings

This years ducklings This years ducklings have hatched much later than normal.  They are a small ba...

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Laundry room refit

A refit for our laundry room After placing an order for three new washing machines (one in Squirrel...

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2023 Free Rangers

Another year of free rangers Provided by forest school leaders Kirsty and Matt (Tangled for nature)...

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Quail on the farm

New for 2023 This year we thought we would try rearing quail for the first time.  We setup the broo...

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Our 2023 lambs on leads

Lambs on leads This year we have two lambs for bottle feeding. Ruby and Saphire were names chosen t...

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Getting Gold for Green

Green Recognition Recognised world wide as an indicator for sustainability, the Green tourism award...

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Astro Tourism! Exmoor National Park Dark Sky Reserve

In 2011 Exmoor became the 1st park to be awarded the International Dark Skies Reserve Status; there ...

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North Devon Biosphere Business Partner

Sustainability has always been of huge importance to us and back in February this year we were accep...

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Staying Safe 2022

Staying Safe in 2022 Providing a safe and enjoyable stay has remained our priority as we enter 2022...

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Holiday Cancellations

The importance of UK holiday cancellation policies Since our various re-openings over the last 18 m...

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Free Rangers Club update

Our wonderful Forest school sessions known as Free Rangers returned this summer!! yay... With a new...

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Farmer Reg's Repair Centre!

Following the passing of our wonderful Farmer Reg in June 2020 we wanted to find a way to commemorat...

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Friends of North Hayne Farm

Friends of North Hayne Farm Following a challenging year and numerous requests from our animal lovi...

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The creative juices flow

Original stories from North Hayne Farm Lockdown has been a challenge for many people and we are no ...

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COVID Confident Stays - What our Guests Say

It seems like an age ago but last July we re-opened following 15 weeks of closure with a number of m...

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National Lockdown v3

2021 January 6th COVID-19 National Lockdown Following the Governments announcement on the 4th Janua...

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COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 Update Following todays Government update for the new national tier system, we are working...

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We won Gold at Visit England !

What an amazing evening Sitting around a webcam in our best bib and tucker, Cheryl and I joined the...

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We're Visit England Finalists

We're Visit England Finalists! After what has been an extremely challenging year we received some r...

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Safe Stay

Getting Ready for Business Updated 24/06/2020 We are delighted with the recent news that self cate...

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In Memory of Farmer Reg

Marking the Passing of Farmer Reg It is with great sadness that we recently lost Farmer Reg to a ve...

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Big Yellow Supports NAS World Autism Week

Big Yellow drops into North Hayne Farm to support the NAS 2020 World Autism Week - 30 Mar-5th April ...

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Looking after our animals

Donation NOT Diet! : Support for our Animals During the disruption caused by the COVID-19 UK wide s...

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COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 Update As the pace of change continues with daily updates from the Government, Cheryl and ...

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Making the Most of Open Spaces

Open Space Holiday Ideas Whilst tourism businesses continue to try and make sense of the current ...

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Coronavirus

Coronavirus (Covid-19) As the UK continues to respond to the current Coronvirus (Covid-19) outbreak...

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Winter Maintenance

Every year we draw up a list of cottages we want to update or make bigger changes to.  This winter h...

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2019/2020 South West Tourism Excellence Awards

Silver and Gold in the South West Tourism Excellence Awards This years Awards event was held at the...

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2019/2020 South West Tourism Excellence Awards

South West Tourism Awards Finalists Having been blown away with our earlier success in the 2019 Vis...

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Our updated website goes live

After a period of design consultation and development we are very pleased to announce the release of...

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2019 Devon Tourism Awards - Two Golds and Winner of Winners Award

Gold for Accessible and Inclusive Tourism and Self Catering Accommodation of the Year and Winner of ...

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2019 Devon Tourism Awards - Self Catering Accommodation of the Year Finalists

Self Catering Accommodation of the Year Finalists It's safe to say we are very excited at receiving...

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2019 Devon Tourism Awards - Accessible and Inclusive Tourism Finalists

Accessible and Inclusive Tourism Finalists This year we entered two award categories run by Visit D...

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Winners of the North Devon Business Leisure and Tourism Awards 2019

A rather special night, last night, at the Highbullen Hotel where the 2019 North Devon Business,Leis...

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Our New Beauty and Therapy Treatment Room

A purpose built retreat for our guests     Opened on the 1st of September, our brand new purpose b...

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Finalists in the North Devon Business Awards!

We are thrilled to have been shortlisted as a finalist in the Best Accomodation Provider catergory t...

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A 2nd bedroom for Katies Corner cottage!

After several weeks of diggers and dumper trucks on site (very popular with some of our younger fa...

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Lambs on leads

With another fabulous Easter behind us for another year we look forward to taking our lambs out on t...

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Autism Awareness Fundraising

Huge thanks to all of our guests and our 'team' who helped to raise an impressive £225 this year for...

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Dementia Friends

North Hayne Farm is becoming Dementia Aware.  Continuing to provide support to our guests to help ...

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Ted goes beach cleaning!

Ted was part of the #plasticfreenorthdevon team this weekend as he joined in with one of this season...

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National Autism Awareness Day 2019

World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognised day taking place on 2nd April every year...

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Plastic Free North Devon - Beeswax Wraps

Here at the farm we are trying hard to help North Devon become free of single use plastics. The rais...

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Book of the year 2019!

Our book choice for this year is being shared by 2 titles as we loved them both! We are therefore pl...

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New On-line booking facility!

We are delighted to announce that we now have a new online booking system on our website, where live...

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Happy New Year!

A very Happy New Year to all of our farm families past present and future! Another first for us h...

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Family Traveller magazine review

Thank you to Sarah who stayed with us recently and wrote an article for the popular Family Traveller...

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1st North Devon business to acheive NAS Autism Friendly Award!

Providing 'inclusive' holidays for families has always been very important to us at North Hayne Farm...

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Free Rangers get green-fingers!

Another very sucessful Free Rangers session was held during the May Half Term when 15 of our childre...

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New Arrivals!

It's that time of year again when we see the ducklings beggining to hatch and enjoy life on the farm...

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Free Rangers

New for 2018! It's taken a little while to find the right person but finally we are delighted and v...

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Autism Friendly

Providing farm holidays for children with additional needs is very important to us. To continue to s...

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Our New Cottage

Exciting times are ahead as the construction of our 8th cottage (Jeremy Fisher) started on the 5th J...

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Bake Box!

New for 2017 is our brand new Bake Box! Containing everything you need to get baking with the child...

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Bird Survey on the farm!

For those of you who enjoy the wildlife, you may be interested in the results of a bird survey condu...

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Bonfire Night at the Farm

Bonfire night at the farm is a time for family fun at this traditional time of year.  This year as ...

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Witch Griselda visits the farm

"With a great cackling and rattling of the creaky old door, .....in bursts Griselda with more smoke ...

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Halloween Workshop

Once again we organised a fun Halloween workshop for the children staying at the farm.  Spooky biscu...

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Our Growing Lambs

Our spring lambs have continued to grow and remain great fun to feed and take on regular lamb walks!...

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More New Arrivals at the Farm

We have just picked up three eight week old Netherland Dwarf rabbits called Bluebell, Lavender and D...

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Meet Our New Goats

We are really pleased to announce the arrival of our two new Pygmy goats Blackberry and Crumble. Th...

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Farm Hands Activity Sessions

    If you are Over 6 years old and would like to get more involved with looking after our animals...

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Signing on the farm with our new picture communication cards

Encouraging children with non-verbal language to fully participate while they are on holiday is a hi...

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Wow! look at them now

The lovely weather, regular bottles of milk formula and plenty of racing around the fields has seen ...

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Supporting additional needs

As part of our commitment to welcoming children with addtional needs we were recently informed about...

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Bottle Feeding Lambs

Spring is well underway here on the farm. The lambing season is in full swing for our local farmers ...

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Big Yellow Visits

For those of you who haven't yet had the pleasure of meeting our resident Easter chick, Big Yellow i...

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Easter Chicks at the Farm

Spring time is all about new life on the farm.  We work closely with local farmers and have a clutch...

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Winter Cottage Improvements

After a busy 2015 rebuilding the children's farm we wanted to make sure we didn't forget to carry ou...

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Ted Bear Competition!

To celebrate our 10th birthday Ted Bear came to stay with us at the farm and has spent the last year...

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Our New Website

We are delighted to introduce our brand new website for 2016.  It is now fully responsive so works f...

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Seasonal Celebrations at North Hayne Farm

    A Wonderful Festive End To Another Year New Year Workshop and Family Fun Just after the morn...

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Halloween with Witch Griselda

Halloween at North Hayne Farm is a great time of year; pumpkin carving and Halloween workshops make ...

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Grand Opening of rebuilt childrens farm

The newly rebuilt childrens farm was opened on 4th September by the Mayor of South Molton David Good...

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