Matlock Farm Park is a wonderful day out for friends and families.
The park is an interactive animal experience with many opportunities to pet and feed the park animals.
CSSC have booked a group session, there will be a guided tour of the park at 11:30 with the chance to get up close to some of the animals and we will have a covered area made available for lunch available. You can bring your own packed lunch or buy food on site from their food vans or cafe. You are then welcome to wander off and enjoy the farm park for the rest of the day.
For families this offer includes up to 2 child places per member.
Not included in this package: The farm park offer pony rides that do not need to be prebooked and longer treks that do need to be pre-booked on their website. The farm park also do a range of free activities throughout the day, such as sheep racing, and have loads of active play spaces for children, with benches nearby for less active adults!
For more information visit Matlock Farm Park Website
What’s included
Access the the farm park for the whole day
Guided tour
Opportunities to get close to some of the parks animals
Covered provision for you to have a packed lunch from 12:30
Price
CSSC member: £9.70
Non-Member: £12.95 + £6 non-member event fee
CSSC member child (2-16 years): £9.70 (Maximum 2 tickets per member).
Child (2-16yrs) Additional: £12.95
Child (Under 2's): Free.
Buying a non member ticket?
An event fee is applied to each non-member ticket. Why not make use of the linked membership scheme and earn yourself £10 by joining them up to CSSC, they will save the non-member event fee, and purchase the ticket at the discounted members rate. Invite your non-member guests to join CSSC here.
Please note that non-member event fee is non-refundable
Format of the day
10:00 - 10:30 - The Farm Park opens at 10:00 and you are welcome to arrive between 10:00 and 10:30 - a CSSC volunteer will be in the car park/at the entrance to meet you and book you into the farm park. Contact details will be sent prior to the event so if you are running late/can't find the volunteer on the day you can make contact to be met at the entrance.
11:30 - 1 hour group activity, guided tour, small animal petting, meerkat talk.
12:30 - Lunch time, you are welcome to bring your own packed lunch and a covered space will be provided for you to eat in, or there are plenty of on site cafe's and mobile catering vans to buy food from.
13:00 onwards - you are welcome to explore and enjoy the farm park either on your own or with the new friends you have met in the morning. The volunteer (me) will be enjoying the sheep racing and feeding the animals in the afternoon so you are welcome to join me as I tour around the park or contact me if you have any issues during the free time in the afternoon.
Please note
Up to 2 Children per member (if you have more than one member and want to book for more than 2 children please make 2 separate bookings).
Matlock farm park try to be as accessible as possible and provide excellent facilities, but if you have a specific issue you need to discuss with them you can do so directly with the venue and/or email events.midlands@csscvolunteer.co.uk and we will try to accomodate you.
We will meet as a group at the farm park car park at 10:00 if you are running late you will be given a phone number a few weeks before hand so you can contact the volunteer organiser to manage your access when you arrive.
Closing date for applications is Friday 26th of June 2026, or when spaces run out.