Future Roots utilises farming to increase resilience and provide Stability & Direction for young people and families.#bovine assisted therapeutic intervention
nr Sherborne in Dorset
Joined September 2011
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Mole’s Move is a book for children living away from home. I have written this book as someone who was one of those children, to ensure that children can see their own experiences in Mole and feel less alone. The book also opens up a dialogue between the adult and the child about feelings, supporting articulation and emotional language for meaning making that can be hard to express for a child.
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Animal instinct is amazing! This security camera captured the exact moment a little girl playing falls from a raft into the water, and amazingly, a nearby bull immediately intervenes to pull her out safely.
If you feel you have the time to put energy into a grow local charity please get in touch @Countrymenuk1 facebook.com/share/p/16unwyb…
Wishing 2026 brings happy days to every family, it’s never going to be all good but I hope it’s not all bad. we are lucky to have green spaces, where there is nature there is always something beautiful, funny, amazing. We need to see and feel it 10 mins helps First snowdrop 😊
2026 and 20 years on what do we wish for. That young people could choose a positive vocational pathway, Partnership between statutory and community sector improves, farmers and police were respected for the work they do, working all weathers and hours no rights to breaks. 🤞🌈
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Edward listened to our young people, our countrymen and Misty the steer…what makes a cost effective and impactful education health and social care facility …it’s the countryside farming and people with belief and empathy who listen and understand our community needs
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Learning Mentor, Full or Part Time (minimum of 30 hours) or term time only for @FutureRootsNet #Sherborne DT9 5PS
For further information and application details ahead of the closing date of Monday 15 September please click the link below:
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The job is now closed for applications and we had over 50 amazing applicants …we have taken ages to short list because all had something to offer FutureRoots ..I am hoping the final 6 will lead to 1 and maybe 2 team members joining us very soon.
Learning Mentor, Full Time for @FutureRootsNet #Sherborne DT9 5PS
For further information and application details ahead of the closing date of Monday 31 March, please click the link below:
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Learning Mentor, Full Time for @FutureRootsNet #Sherborne DT9 5PS
For further information and application details ahead of the closing date of Monday 31 March, please click the link below:
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#DorsetJobs
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Wishing all future rooties past and present a happy healthy 2025 .. make this year a year you feel proud of and want to remember when you are older
Sherborne Times, the importance of listening and supporting our young people #community #education sherbornetimes.co.uk/
#gmb there is pride having family join police. keeping society safe an important role. But pay is awful, no respect, they put self at risk daily and media rarely praise only condemn decisions.
So what will seats going to the liberals mean for charities and the third sector in Dorset. The weather is unpredictable and I feel there are uncertain times for us and for my other main interest farming/ food production
@GMB a calf not even a cow…you can always get a vet unlike dentists and doctors..no excuse ….I think it is a police training issue .farm animals always out in Dorset, you would never see police or public do this here. If it was a residential area there are gardens to put it
I can not believe anyone from the @NFU would condone the behaviour of the policeman who drove his car at a calf …a stray dog could equally cause problems on roads if running …what would they have done then .. you would not shoot a calf there were gardens to herd it into
Only a week to go, please support our @Countrymenuk1 with their amazing fund raising event by an amazing lady please read the link below @GdnSocialCare @SocialPrescrib2 @NHSEngland @NHSDorset @BBCDorset localgiving.org/fundraising/…
We hear this even more so since covid which changed how young people socialise and learn. Teachers do an amazing job but the environment doesn’t work for those who live with fear, feel different, are carers, live in poverty, have no support, have ptsd or suffer a bereavement
Today I talked to a young person who stopped going to school in Year 7. He told me, when we looked around the school they said that detentions were only for when you did something really wrong and most people didn’t get them. Then, when I got there, I found out that in nearly every lesson someone got a detention. The teachers were always giving us detentions and I was scared.
He said, they really pack things into your head. You get into the class and there’s a ‘First do this’ on the board and you have to sit down and do it immediately. Then the teacher gives you more to do and it doesn’t matter if you can’t do it all, it just keeps moving on. You can’t ask your friend how they are doing it because you can’t talk. You’re always worrying about what happens next and whether you might get a detention.
He said, I couldn’t do it. It made my head hurt and by lunchtime I couldn’t go on. I know I was learning a lot but I couldn’t keep going.
He’s out of school now and at an alternative setting. He said, I can stay all day there, because they don’t pressure us. I couldn’t believe how relaxed they were when I started. They don’t give us detentions and I didn’t think that would really happen. I’m learning things.
There’s no way for this to be fed back to the system. No one asks those of us who work in mental health what the side effects are of our local school. No one measures mental health as a key outcome of educational and behavioural policy. No one looks at children’s behaviour and attendance as feedback on the system.
He’s not an isolated case. I hear stories like his all the time. Kids who cannot cope with high pressure and high control environments and who start not attending school as a result. Kids who tell me that they are constantly fearful of getting it wrong.
You won’t solve that by fining or threatening their parents. We have to ask what is happening in our schools, and whether many of them are becoming environments in which children cannot thrive. Exam results aren’t enough. We have to ask about the side effects of the system.
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Maybe another piece of evidence supporting #Alternativeeducation that increases access to the outdoors @FutureRootsNet .young people manage their emotions and regulate behaviours so they are more able to learn and reach their potential
Longitudinally, vitamin D-deficient children with 25(OH)D levels below 50 nmol/L exhibited more aggressive behavior and a 1.8 times greater prevalence of clinical externalizing problems in adolescence, a median of 6 years later.
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