On the evening of Thursday 1st May, a bee swarm was discovered in the shrubbery of Oakfield gardens in Yardley Hastings. Our Property Manager, Brendan, called a beekeeper from Turner’s Bees who came that day to rehome the swarm. Paul soon arrived with his wife and daughter to begin safely removing the bees from the shrubs and housing them into one of their new hive containers. The process took about two hours from start to the last bee walking into its new home. The main part of the swarm was removed from the shrub, containing the queen bee at the centre of it. Once it was dropped into the new container, all the other bees main concern was to follow where the queen had now been placed. This is when the container was just left for the thousands of bees detached from the swarm to now follow the queen into. They cannot survive without the queen and so follow her scent to be with her and surround her once again. Once landing on our shrub, it was the worker bees’ job to surround the queen in their thousands to keep her safe and warm. Now, the bees have been taken away to be rehomed with Turner’s Bees, soon to have Oakfield’s logo on their new hive and to one day produce Oakfield Community honey that will be able to be purchased from our pop up shop, along with some donated candles made from the wax the bees produce.

The people we support have been busy over April, enjoying the Easter sunshine, and completing various activities such as visiting the care farm, seed-to-plate, visiting family, forest school and in-house games to name a few.  Please see the below photographs taken over April!

On the 17th April 2025, phase four of the Easton Maudit Renovation Fundraising Project was complete and two more of the people we support moved in to their new flats in Supported Living. This was a very exciting day for all at Oakfield. Thank you to all our fundraising supporters of the Easton Maudit renovation project, without you this would not be possible. Please see the below photographs taken on the day as well as a video showcasing one of our Supported Living flats.

The people we support have been out and about enjoying the sunny weather, doing in-house activities, seed-to-plate, eating out, celebrating birthdays, bowling and more this March! Please see the below photographs.

Starting from April, our Pop-up Charity shop will now be open every Wednesday and Friday from 10am-4pm. Please come down and have a browse, and enjoy our refreshments and the glorious spring weather. 100% of donations go directly to Oakfield Charity. You can find our address and further information on the below posters. We hope to see you there!

One of the people we support, Jason, would like to invite you all to his art exhibition on the 25th of March at Abington Community Centre. Jason has a talent for drawing and making his own suits. Jason shares a mind, body and consciousness with the Atersernichers programme we he wants to make them feel themselves in there suits and enjoys drawing them and the Tropperioserqips children. This will take place between 12:00-2:00pm, if you would like to show your support for Jason please feel free to pop by. 🎨