Hello from our Down to Earth Community Allotment! We have started 2023 with much needed hands-on repairs. January and February are the physical months of the gardening year leaving all things green to rest for a bit longer until early spring. As such, we shifted many barrows of woodchip, compost and manure and have [...]
The Wilderness Foundation’s Education Team are delighted to say that our Wild Schools Climate Action programme has gone from strength to strength in 2022! For those that haven’t heard about it before this is an 8-week programme taught in schools to students in Year 5 & 6. The first four weeks are interactive presentations [...]
Find somewhere to volunteer, visit a foodbank, support a friend, or a charity and find a way to donate. The act of giving can help to re-affirm and strengthen connections and contacts and provides the opportunity to demonstrate our appreciation for others. Making small changes to our daily lifestyles can help mitigate the impacts [...]
Turn off your phone and fully immerse in nature! Forget about the pressures of social media for a while and be present in the moment. Try and embrace the Joy of Missing Out, the rivalling concept to FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), by consciously leaving your phone at home and spending some quality time [...]
Take the opportunity to meet with family and friends in the outdoors, in parks, at the beach, in the garden and enjoy an activity together. True connectedness with other people will have a much greater influence on our wellbeing, so why not use this time of year to set some dates aside to spend [...]
Take just a few minutes out of your busy day and try a mindfulness exercise in nature, like a walk in the park, running on the beach or climbing a tree. Time spent outdoors can drastically improve your mental and physical wellbeing. However, if access to the outdoors is difficult, you can gain similar [...]
There are many ways to become more sustainable. For example, learning to garden and grow your own vegetables can help reduce air pollution and provide a healthy food source. There are also many ways to recycle materials to create habitats in the garden, reducing unnecessary waste and creating homes for different animals. Gardening not [...]
Dear All, What a year 2021 was and how grateful I am writing this, looking back at the challenges we have overcome and mountain we have climbed. I am incredibly proud and humbled by the charity and the team I get to work with every day. Rewind to March 2021 when we were [...]
Happy Earth Day to our Friends, Funders and Supporters, The guillemots fly over my head in two directions, reminiscent of a busy avian airport. Some fly so low over my head, as they come across the waves, that their wing-beats drum in my ears and I imagine the wind from their wings tickling my [...]
Dear Friends, Funders and Supporters, Thank you for taking the time to read this first blog post, which is all very exciting. I have some fantastic news to share with you all. We have recently received funding from the Ernest Cook Trust to fund the position of a 'Green Mentor' (that's me). The role [...]
Dear Friends, Funders and Supporters, I am writing to share with real sense of achievement to you all – after what has been quite a year – but we made it – with our thanks to you all for your support and belief in us as an organisation. We will enter the new year [...]
Dear Friends,Since our last newsletter much has changed again in the world around us. Whatever the state of the times, we continue to deal with a new reality of how we live. This continues to have real uncertainty about what the future may hold for us all in terms of health, social contact, and economics [...]