Our Story

The chance to combine mental wellbeing and support, with the love of animals, nature and the outdoors is something I never thought I would have the chance to do, but sometimes I get a moment to look around and realise just how much we have achieved.

Established as a CIC in 2019, and then named Helping Hooves Derbyshire, we have grown through several stages of providing mental wellbeing peer support. We have loved every section of our journey with every visitor shaping our next steps. As much as Helping Hooves has made us what we are now, with growth and exploration often comes change and we are proud to have developed into Honey Hope Farm.
Our staff and directors have lived experience of mental health recovery, bringing our ideal safe space to life through a love of small holding, rare breed animals and home grown food, we have met some wonderful people, young and adults. Growing a wonderful supportive community we hope you want to be a part of.

Our Policies and Important information can be found here

Your Information

Data Protection

Company Values

Constitution

Staff Safety

Lone Working

Everyone’s Safety

Emergency, Risk Assessment

In the event of question or query relating to these documents, you can contact our Safeguarding Director Darren Adams-Shaw through our website. Make any communications for the attention of the lead you feel most appropriate.

Meet the Team

  • Bridget Adams-Shaw

    Director.
    Project lead.
    Peer support worker.
    Mental health first aider.
    First aider.

  • Darren Adams-Shaw

    Director.
    Safeguarding lead.
    Bushcraft lead.
    Mental health first aider.
    First aider.

  • Lexy Adams-Shaw

    Youth facilitator lead.
    Yard manager.
    Mental health first aider.
    First aider.
    Legal Advisor

  • Daniel Austin.

    Director.
    Chairman of trustees.
    Interim Finance Lead


  • Vacant

    Director.
    Finance lead.

  • Barbara Harrison

    Director.
    Secretary of trustees.

  • Vacant

    Director.
    Animal welfare lead.

  • Georgina Hewitt

    Policy and Interim Welfare

Join The Team

We are always looking for people to help us expand our services. Whilst we do not offer direct animal ‘volunteering placements’, working for and around the farm is vastly rewarding

We are currently looking for people to help us shape our service and become involved.
We have a number of vacancies that may be of interest.

Trustee member, We currently have a vacancy. This is a volunteer role with scope to shape and guide our service. If you would like information on the post then please get in touch.

We also have a number of admin based roles, fundraisers, event planners and back office support roles. If you’re interested in any of the opportunities then please get in touch.

Achieving Excellence

We knew that when we started the journey to support our community we wanted to put all our efforts into creating a service you could be sure of.
With this in mind we have invested much in our facilitators training and the governance of our organisation. We are proud to have achieved a green quality care mark from social farms and gardens. Fellowship of the school of social entrepreneurs. A quality mark from the charity excellence commission, registration of a community headspace and registration as a certified social enterprise.

Our Facilitators not only have lived experience. but we are all qualified mental health first aiders, certified peer supporters, physical first aiders, and our full time facilitator is a qualified peer support worker too.

Awards and achievements

Recently we were delighted that Bridget was awarded the Head Outside Inspirational Individual of 2023.
The award goes to her for the dedication to the project and our community.

In the same round of nominations Honey Hope was repeatedly nominated for:
Outstanding Organisation
Ways To Wellbeing
Wellbeing Warrior

Rare Breed Conservation

In early 2023 we were given an incredible opportunity to take on some of the worlds rarest chickens. We are proud to have a small flock of Derbyshire Redcap hens and roosters.
these birds are on the survival trusts endangered list, playing our part in conserving this beautiful and clever breed means a great deal to us.
It led us to wanting to further invest in rare breeds and not long afterwards we were able to take on some Ayam Cemani birds, also on the endangered list but not as at risk as the redcaps.
Recently however we were given another amazing opportunity to home a flock of Stanbridge white ducklings, this breed was believed to be extinct in 2007 until a small back yard flock were discovered to live in Gloucestershire. We are now joining with other breed champions to grow the breed population.