Gorse Hill City Farm (registered charity no.1000575) covers 19 acres on the outskirts of Leicester City Centre. It is open every day of the year and recieves over 60 000 visitors a year. The farm is home to a wide variety of animals including rare-breed pigs, cattle, sheep, guinea pigs and rabbits as well as a team of 6 human staff, 1 which is full time.

The farm has been open for 27 years and is costantly developing and evolving. In 2006 we recieved a Heritage Lottery Grant which enabled us to develop a new open-fronted building which provides winter shelter and outdoor classroom facilities. Recently completed projects include additional signage and an audio trail for visitors to the farm as well as some changes to the fields to allow us to increase the animal headcount.

Gorse Hill City Farm celebrated its Silver Jubilee two years ago.  We’re open every single day of the year, from 10am to 4pm!! Entrance to the farm is by donation (we suggest £2 for adults and £1 for children). Put your donation in the yellow milk churn on the farm gate!! This really helps toward the £150,000 we have to raise a year to keep the farm open and running.

We hope you find our website useful and interesting. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch via the contact us section. We look forwards to seeing you on the farm in the near future.