If you go down to the woods today – be mindful!
We're delighted to welcome Felsted Prep School back to the Chatham Green Project for a day of mindful English activities delivered outside the classroom
Citizenship Week with Felsted Preparatory School
The Wilderness Foundation will be hosting students from Felsted Preparatory School this week as part of the Citizenship Week held annually in school.
Temporary Vacancy – Farm and Nature Education Instructor (Sessional)
Would you like to help with the delivery of our highly successful and popular Chatham Green Project this summer? The Wilderness Foundation has a temporary opportunity available during July and August for a skilled and experienced professional to support delivery of farm and nature activities for children of all ages. Work is offered on a [...]
Food and Farming Day 2015
The Wilderness Foundation is supporting food and farming education in partnership with Writtle College.
Working with Essex Childrens Burns Club
The Chatham Green Project was delighted to welcome to the farm families from the Essex Children’s Burns Club on Sunday 29th March for a day of food and farming fun! Battered but not beaten by the awful weather, we explored the farm looking for the first signs of Spring and finding out more about where [...]
Captured on Camera! Wildlife at Chatham Green
Our outdoor camera has captured some of the visitors to Chatham Green recently
Community Tree Planting November 2014
We were delighted to welcome volunteer tree planters back to the Chatham Green site on Saturday 15th November 2014. Adults, parents and children joined us to plant the next wave of saplings in our Diamond Jubilee Wood. Over 12,000 trees have already been planted at Hyde Hall Farm, with the woodlands being officially opened by [...]
Community Tree Planting 15/11/2014
We're tree planting again! In the past eighteen months the Wilderness Foundation UK has planted over 12,000 trees in our new Diamond Jubilee Wood at Chatham Green in Essex. Now it's time to add 1,000 more and we're inviting you to come and help! Saturday 15th November 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Everyone welcome. Wrap [...]
ALL HALLOWS EVE – A WICKED WALK IN THE WOODS
Join us at our Chatham Green Project for family fun on the wild side this Halloween. Take a twinkling twilight walk around our farm and woodland area. Spooky nature crafts in the Education Centre Scary stories by the campfire Apple-bobbing and light (fright) refreshments 6pm—9pm, Friday 31st October 2014 £5 per child, suggested age 5-12, [...]
Chatham Green Project Teachers Open Evening
We would like to invite all teachers, both primary and senior, for a tour and presentation of our Chatham Green Project on either the 15th or 23rd September.
My Placement at Wilderness Foundation UK
By Douwe Vegter Day 1 – 21/7/14 Introduction My name is Douwe Lee and I am an undergraduate at Bournemouth University. I have been given the task of completing a 5 week placement at a facility of my choice, I have decided that the wilderness foundation uk would be best suited to my course in [...]
Summertime Family Activities – Discovery Mornings
What are you doing this Summer? We know how hard it is to keep youngsters busy during the long summer school holidays and we are organising a series of Summertime Family Activities at our Chatham Green Project to encourage youngsters to switch some screen time for outdoor time. The idea behind our Discovery Mornings is [...]
Walk a Country Mile
The Wilderness Foundation are proud to be supporting the Prince's Countryside Fund - National Countryside Week - by organising a Walk a Country Mile on Saturday 19th July. Join us at our Chatham Green Project on the 19th July between 10 am and 1 pm and take a gentle stroll through the living landscape at our Chatham Green Project. [...]
Chatham Green Nature Blog
Common Blue OUR NATURE BLOG The Chatham Green Project site is looking spectacular at this time of year with the pollen-nectar wildflower mixes really doing their jobs and attracting the pollinators. Our butterfly survey this week recorded over 100 individual butterflies of six different species on the farm. Some species were recorded for the [...]
Great first Open Farm Sunday for Wilderness Foundation
On Sunday 8th June 2014 the Wilderness Foundation in conjunction with partners Strutt and Parker (Farms) opened up the Chatham Green Project for members of the public to tour the farm and conservation areas and learn more about the work that we are doing to bring people closer to nature. The farm was open as [...]