Our Animal Learning Centre (ALC) was established in 2017 initially as part of the education of the Forest School learners at Stonebroom Primary and Nursery School, but it has now evolved into an integral part of our community, and we take bookings for visits to our ALC for members of the ever expanding Home Education network, Toddler sessions, and public sessions.

People from near and far regularly come to visit our ALC. You can see our pigs, goats, chickens, ducks and turkeys (as well as varying amounts of chicks and ducklings which hatch naturally every spring), from outside the gate, at any time. The Community woodland has free access and anyone can come and see our animals without having to enter the ALC. Sessions on the ALC need to be booked in advance at www.stonebroomcommunity.co.uk

We also support learners who are undertaking their Duke of Edinburgh Awards, and work experience students from local secondary schools. All these sessions need to be booked, by visiting our website, which has been generously set up and donated by Craig at 'Progress Management Solutions' in August 2026: www.stonebroomcommunity.co.uk

We formed our Community Group, Stonebroom Community Hub for Outdoor and Occupational Learning .... Stonebroom Community Hub, for short, in the summer of 2024. We are a dedicated team of volunteers, committed to raising funds to enable us to continue renovating our ex school building into the Community Outdoor Learning Centre we have wanted for so long. We are a totally not for profit organisation, so any funds that are raised are used to pay for the running of the Animal Learning Centre and any remaining funds will be directed straight back into the business of getting the building up and running!

At the end of 2025 we were proud to publicly announce that.....

☆ Phase 1) Our Community Animal Park and Building are now financially secure!

☆ Phase 2) Stonebroom Community Hub (for Outdoor and Occupational Learning) is now an official CIC (Community Interest Company)

There have been many changes at the ALC since 2024. We lost Olive, our little pink pig and we sadly, lost Hamish, my first pig, who was nearly 16 when he died in Feb 25; our little shy goat Neddy, whose passing came as a huge shock,in September 25, and took us all some time to come to terms with, and lastly Donut, who died in April 2026 at the ripe old age of 16!

BUT we still have Horace, our (in)famous Community pig; Dottie , our gorgeous 16.5 year old little Kune Kune pig; Shaggy, Norbert and Norris, our beautiful goats, and our hilarious ducks and chickens; as well as two very tame and cuddly guinea pigs.

We also have TomTom, a rather large 6 year old Kune Kune / pot bellied pig living in a paddock at the top of the woodland. He's been with us since May 2025.

In June 2026 three young turkey hens, came to join the menagerie, at the age of 8 weeks, and they are now HUGE, and very entertaining... and at the end of July 2026, four beautiful 5 month old piglets moved in to the woodland paddocks. They came from a wonderful sanctuary, Pigs In The Woods in Huddersfield, and their names are Otis, Oz, Rodney and Raquel (Kel), and they are a constant source of amusement as they run up and down their paddock, greeting every passer-by with squeals of delight, hoping for an apple or a carrot!

Our most recent fantastic update is that over the summer of 2026, we have managed to have all the windows, flat roofing, soffits, fascias and guttering replaced on our future Outdoor Learning Centre building!

Garry, Matt, Gareth and Taylor from Ashfield Installations Ltd, have worked hard for six weeks, getting all this work done, and they've done a fantastic job! Thank you guys!

The money that we've raised over the last four+ years from Halloween Woodland Walks, Easter Eggstravaganza events, and more recently, our ALC Home Ed and Toddler sessions has all gone into getting this work done... The Hub has taken on a small loan to make up the deficit, so we still need to raise more money now,

1) to help pay back the loan, and

2) to enable us to start work on the inside if the building.

Our Animal shelters are also in urgent need of replacement, so there's still a huge amount of work to do!

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Our business whatsapp number is:

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THANK YOU!