St Basils Collection Point Becketts Farm is proud to be supporting St Basils youth homelessness charity for the 2nd year running. After last year’s overwhelming support from staff and customers we are delighted to be a collection point for items such as toiletries, long life food, brand new towels, bedding and much more. Please see the full list of items here. St Basils are a local charity and work with young people across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull, Worcestershire, Coventry and surrounding areas.  St Basils supports over 5000 young people per year, aged 16 – 25 who are homeless or at...

Shirley Aquatics move to Beckett’s Farm has proved to be the success the team had all hoped for. Now bigger and better then they have ever been the new leading provider of marine aquarium and fish tank supplies can boast to be one of the biggest superstores in Europe, after opening here at Becketts Farm last month. To help celebrate the move the team are holding an open weekend to invite new and existing customers the chance to see the full plans for the new store. Held over the weekend of the 25th and 26th November customers old and new...

We have raised £302.39 for Macmillan Staff at Becketts took part in our annual Great British Bake Off on Friday 29th September. There was a variety of cakes baked which included  a giant jaffa cake, salted caramel brownie, carrot and pecan cake, chocolate cupcakes, lime tray bake, rice crispy cakes and of course theultimate Macmillan cake which was announced the winner. The cakes were judged on presentation and taste by the Hospitality Director, Jim and Assistant Head Chef, Rob. In first place was the Chocolate cake topped with fudge and mint aero, in second place was the carrot cake topped...

July’s Team Building Events in the Orange Kitchen Somehow we are fast approaching the end of August. I thought I would just take a moment or two to look back on July, it proved to be a very eventful month! From running a range of our adult courses, children’s summer courses and LOTS of fun filled team build events. The first team we welcomed to The Orange Kitchen in July was 20 members of staff from NFU Mutual. They chose to do the Pasta & Bread making team build, and so split off into groups of four to rustle up...

Combine Harvesting Rapeseed Crop When you think of Becketts you may think ‘Farm Shop, Restaurant, Cookery School, Conference and even onsite partners such as Sima’. What you don’t think about is the land that is owned by Becketts and the farming that takes place; with over 1000 acres of land there is never a moment’s peace for the farm team. Work experience doesn’t end when you are in school and it is always good to learn new skills throughout life, so the marketing team at Becketts jumped at the chance to spend an afternoon on a combine harvester with the...