May 2025
May Working Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 2 – Sun 4 May
- Price:
- No charge
This is a chance to get to know the farm, turn your hand to old jobs and new, enjoy good company and good food too!
An opportunity to have bright ideas by the compost heap, happy talk in the hen house, and cool chat in the kitchen. Join us to prove that many hands make light work and that today’s stranger is tomorrow’s friend.
Our Working Weekends are run in the beautiful spirit of the WWOOF organisation: we feed and accommodate you, you work, with us.
For more information on WWOOF, see www.wwoof.org.uk.
To request a place on this Working Weekend, please email enquiries@lowershawfarm.co.uk
Swindon Festival of Literature
- Date:
- Mon 5 – Sun 11 May
Authors, talks, discussions, poetry, slams, writing workshops, music, and circus performances.
A festival full of cultural riches!
If you want to know more, get the full colour programme, available from 27th March, phone 01793771080 or email swindonlitfest@lowershawfarm.co.uk or see www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk.
Swindon Festival of Literature – Children and Families Day
- Date:
- Sun 11 May
- Time:
- 10.30am – 3.30pm
- Price:
- For price and other details see Festival programme, available from 28th March at swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk, or phone 01793 771080.
Authors, workshops, storytelling, word games, story walks, circus skills, treasure hunts, riddles, puppets, campfire stories, and plenty of play, all day, at Lower Shaw Farm.
The Farm Cafe will be open for light lunches, and delicious cakes and refreshments.
If you have any questions, please phone us on 01793 771080 or email
Circus Fun Weekend – workshops and performances,
an extravaganza for all ages
- Date:
- Thu 29 May – Sun 1 June
- Price:
- Adult £228
Child/Young person (5 – 25yrs) £171
Second or third child in same family £162 - with…
- Jacob-Hi Ho, Juggler Jim, Darine, and other Farm Yard Circus friends!
Have you ever dreamed of running away to join a circus?
Well, now you can, because the circus is coming to Lower Shaw Farm, and you can be part of it!
There will be workshops in juggling (balls, clubs, passing); staff spinning, plate spinning, devil-sticks, hula hoop, and more…; aerial hoop and silks; rope walking and slack-lining; acro-balance and human pyramids; uni-cycling; and performance skills. There will be a fire show, and a fire sculpture created by you! After dark, we’ll have a cabaret, UV-light performance, and a Cowshed party to write home about. And on the last day, we’ll finish off with a games session, using your new skills! And for anyone who just wants to watch, the workshop space also has comfy sofas!
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