Fairytale Farm, the UK's first tourist attraction to be designed around the needs of children with varying disabilities – but open to all – was opened by Prime Minister David Cameron, on June 21.

Park owners, husband and wife Nick and Nicola Laister, who funded the £1m attraction almost entirely themselves with the help of a group of volunteers, personally welcomed Mr Cameron to the site in Chipping Norton before introducing him to the people who had helped them realise the vision.

Fairytale Farm is described as a sensory and learning wonderland for all the family. It includes an adventure playground, an enchanted walk and a petting zoo.

The Prime Minister said: "This project brings together three really important things. Firstly, we need more businesses in our country. We need more small businesses and we need more start-ups. It is great to be somewhere where you can hear about banks lending money and entrepreneurs starting a new business."

He continued: "Businesses really matter and it is great to be here at the start of a new small business in West Oxfordshire. Secondly, tourism also really matters and we want to do more to attract tourists to West Oxfordshire.

"There are going to be hundreds of millions of tourists coming from China and India in the future and we want to capture some of that value. Schemes like this will do exactly that.

"But most importantly, as the parent of a disabled child, I know how incredibly meaningful and important it is to have somewhere you can take all your children and particularly somewhere you can learn about wildlife, the countryside and animals, and have the opportunity to hold them and to get to know them. It means an enormous amount to parents of disabled children."