A care farm is hoping to raise funds for its farm therapy scheme through a charity football match.

Clinks Care Farm will be pitting staff and volunteers against farm helpers in a football fundraiser hosted by Bungay Town Football Club.

Kick-off is on Sunday, May 5 at 1pm with gates open from midday. Entry is free, and the City of Norwich Pipe Band will be performing before kick-off and during the interval. 

Local businesses have donated quality and top range auction prizes which will be auctioned off by local poultry auctioneer Fabian Eagle at the match - which is the fifth of its kind.

"We hope to raise sufficient funds to grow the care farm even further, expand our Farm Therapy project which replaced the innovative 'Farming on Prescription' scheme," said care farm founder Doeke Dobma.

"We hope to raise sufficient funds to grow the care farm even further, expand our Farm Therapy project which replaced the innovative 'Farming on Prescription' scheme.

"Mental health services remain stretched and under-resourced, we hope to relief some of the pressures and reach out to young people suffering from mental health issues and anxieties.

"Also those who struggle in education due to a variety of conditions, post pandemic malaise and lack of opportunities, especially to those from a non-farming background providing hands-on farming experience."

Clinks Farm is a 143 acre Norfolk County Farm in Toft Monks which sits on the border of Suffolk and Norfolk near Beccles.

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The care farm - a social enterprise - was launched in 2010 to offer placements to disadvantaged people "to use the natural farm environment and the activities on the farm as a therapeutic space and a place to learn and grow".