2024 has been a busy year here at Incredible Eggs, so in this blog we’re going to take a moment to look back and reflect before we leap into 2025!
Our company strives to have a positive impact in the areas of education, animal welfare, safeguarding biodiversity and wildlife conservation. We do this through the work on our farms, the service we provide and the organisations we support. These are not just empty words – they underpin everything we do.
In January, we announced the charities and social enterprises we would be supporting during the year ahead.
- We committed to funding the planting a further 100 trees via JustOneTree, bringing the size of our little Incredible Eggs forest up to 400 trees!
- We also started work with The British Bee Charity, which operates an initiative called BeeBombs4schools. The charity sends participating schools an educational pack, together with BeeBombs which are native, wildflower seedballs, handmade in Dorset. The educational pack includes a powerpoint presentation with teacher notes. We provided funding for 10 further schools to be able to participate free of charge.
- Incredible Eggs also provided further funding to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust for 2024, bringing our total RBST sponsorship funding to £1,552.
You can find out more about our work with these organisations here.
In February, we blogged about one of the rare breeds we are preserving here at Incredible Eggs – the cayuga duck. It is listed as ‘at risk’ with the Rare Breeds Survival Trust and you can find out more here.
March was British Science Week and we commissioned one of Bloomsbury Education’s best-selling authors, Molly Potter, to create further bespoke BSW24 educational resources to support the teachers booking our hatching kits for this event – EYFS right through to KS4.
In May we shared some delightful hatching stories and photographs from schools and care homes which had made the press. They really do sum up in a very touching way just how valuable and meaningful the hatching experience is to those who participate. You can find links to them here.
In September we partnered with publishers Routledge for a book giveaway to primary schools. 7 lucky schools (one in each of our regional branch areas) were all sent a new educational book – ‘The Power of Emotional Intelligence – A Primary School Toolkit’ – free of charge.
October saw our annual grey partridge wildlife conservation project for schools in action, with the videoed release and first flight of this years birds – always a sight to behold and a celebration of all the hard work involved to make it happen! The video is below and more information about this unique conservation project can be found here.
Throughout the year we posted videos from our farms, which support and raise awareness of farming practices committed to providing the highest possible standards in animal welfare. We bring those videos together below for those of you that missed any of them.
And on top of all this, our wonderful branch managers, their families and staff also supplied a record-breaking number of schools, nurseries, care homes and private domestic homes with high-welfare, ethically produced hatching kits and supported them throughout with a first-rate professional service!
Phew – well done Team Incredible!
Happy Christmas 2024 to our customers and supporters, old and new, who made all of this possible – and wishing everyone a very happy 2025!
From all at Incredible Eggs
