The Amelia Trust is a working farm is set in 160 acres of countryside in the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan. It offers a calming and therapeutic environment. The Trusts core objective is to support and educate vulnerable and disadvantaged young people. Through fun and work based activities the young people are empowered to participate, learn new skills and develop potential. The many people that make up the daily community on the farm include skilled staff and volunteers, young people who are discovering life, adults with learning difficulties in work placements and members of the public enjoying the countryside; it is a fantastic recipe that makes the Amelia Trust an amazing place to be.
This weekend sees Harvest Festival at the Amelia Trust Farm. (http://www.ameliatrust.org.uk/) The farm is a Methodist Project with Deacon Lorraine Brown as the Director of the Trust.
"Then Peter came and said to him, 'Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.'" (vv. 21-22)Often young people who are vulnerable simply need someone who will take them as who they are and give forgive them seventy-seven times, whilst they learn new ways to work in society or try to find a way to tell someone what is troubling them. But during this process it can be very rewarding to see young people who move to being able to trust an adult or realise that their actions are not the best way to deal with a situation and try to modify their habits.
The harvest of the farm does include tasty sausages, eggs and haylage for winter feed, but they also harvest developed young people who are prepared to go out and face the world prepared for further study or employment.
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