Cheshire ice cream maker invests in fun
INDEPENDANT ice cream maker Cheshire Farm Ice Cream has invested £100,000 to create a new purpose built children’s play barn.
The 3,000 sq ft barn, called Crazy Daisy’s Fun Factory, has opened at the firm’s Drumlan Hall Farm in Tattenhall and can hold up to 90 children at any one time over three levels.
It features a toddler’s area for one to four year olds, a sports court, ballpools, an assault course and a wave slide.
Funding for the barn came from Lombard, the asset finance arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland.
It is the farm’s latest attraction alongside an ice cream parlour, tea room, gift shop and animal sanctuary with llamas, miniature horses and donkeys and pot bellied pigs.
Cheshire Farm Ice Cream was founded in 1986 by Tom & Margaret Fell and remains a family run enterprise, with sons Jonathan and Graeme also involved in the running of the business.
It produces over 30 types of ice cream using only ingredients produced on the farm, with whole process from the cows being milked to the production of ice cream is done within 24 hours.
The farm has developed a wholesale operation and now supplies over 800 pubs, hotels, restaurants and retail outlets across the North West.
Jonathan Fell, director of Cheshire Farm Ice Cream, said: “We are always looking at ways in which we can improve the experience of visitors to the farm and this investment is a result of that. The playbarn provides our younger visitors with a friendly and fun filled environment.”
