Bridgend Farmhouse

Bridgend Farmhouse is a community owned and run charitable organisation in south Edinburgh with a mission to ensure our now renovated farmhouse exists as a sustainable community-owned centre for learning, eating and exercise, where all can learn, work and grow together to develop a flourishing community and place. 

Our aims and objectives include:
-advancing community development through the shared ownership of Bridgend Farmhouse and providing opportunities for active citizenship and volunteering.

-advancing education and training in the community by utilising the farmhouse site for various learning activities, particularly those that support engagement in the outdoors, local woodlands, sustainability, and environmental and place-based education.

-advancing health, both physical and mental, and address health inequalities and social isolation to support people to live happy, healthy and enriched lives.

-advancing the arts, heritage and culture of the local area and on site.

-promoting equality and diversity by providing accessible facilities and a diversity of activities.

-advancing environmental protection, biodiversity and the enjoyment of the Craigmillar Castle park, and promote and enable sustainable development and living practices.

By choosing Bridgend Farmhouse as a beneficiary in your will, you will know that you will be making a difference to the local community, providing human and material resources to allow us to improve and enhance the life chances and wellbeing of people who need it most.