Whirlow Hall Farm Trust was founded in 1979 as an educational trust working with inner city children and young people with special needs or disabilities. Since that date, over 250,000 children have visited Whirlow on a daily or residential basis. Whirlow Hall Farm Trust is a unique environmental and educational charity. Each year we provide an outstanding learning and developmental experience for up to 10,000 children, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, and young adults with disabilities and special needs from inner city areas - a classroom in the countryside. A day at Whirlow provides children a hands-on way to further their understanding of a real working farm and the environment. For many of our young visitors this is the first time that they will have visited the countryside. They may never have seen a farm animal close to before. By holding a newly hatched chick, bottle feeding a new-born lamb or simply seeing a pig with her piglets for the first time they are having an unforgettable experience and at the same time learning about where our food comes from.