Wilderness Foundation UK's Mental Health Programme for Young People Recognised with High Sheriff’s Shield The Wilderness Foundation in Chatham Green has been honoured with the prestigious High Sheriff's Shield at the annual Essex High Sheriff's Awards. This recognition is part of a broader award of funding where £162,000 was awarded to 30 charities across [...]
Rewilding Britain SpringWise - Innovating for Nature: Using Nature as a Co-Therapist - Q&A with Terri Dawson, Wilderness Environmental Education Officer
Essex Chronicle - Mar24 - Marie Goldman at the Wilderness Foundation's TA Graduation
Essex Life - July24 - Allotments
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Following the visit of HRH Prince Harry to the Wilderness Foundation UK on 14th September, there has been widespread coverage of the work of the charity – locally, nationally and even globally!
Social Psychologist, broadcaster and writer, and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series Digital Human Aleks Krotoski shared these thoughts
Dawn Lawrence, author and illustrator, has written and illustrated '2 Steps Behind' - a paperback containing 113 poems and illustrations dedicated to the preservation of our wild animals. There is a foreword by Virginia McKenna, founder of the Born Free Foundation. About the book: Each animal speaks for itself in easy-to-read, rhyming verse. Most of [...]
The problem with education? Children aren't feral enough On Monday 7th October the Guardian Newspaper published an article on the benefits of outdoor learning. George Monbiot quoted the Wilderness Foundation's projects which utilise Wilderness Therapy as a way of facilitating personal awareness, development and change. This exposure to nature can bring substantial mental health benefits. [...]
Three years ago Friend of the Wilderness Foundation Ronita Shapiro set out to make a feature film based on our Founder
"More than half the world is now living in cities and we are yearning to reconnect with nature," Jo Roberts, CEO of the Wilderness Foundation. The Wilderness Foundation was recently approached by Suzy Graves of the Sunday Times to discuss the increasing need for people to connect with nature. Suzy's article was published in [...]
The latest edition of Inspired Times magazine is out and we’re in it! The nice people at Inspired Times wanted to run a feature on nature tourism and who better to speak to than the Wilderness Foundation UK? Tegan Tallulah writes: In our modern, fast paced, and increasingly city-centered lives, the importance of reconnecting with [...]
The April 2012 issue of the International Journal Of Wilderness has now been published. This issue covers: The Spiritual Value of Wilderness IUCN Definition of Wilderness Marine Wilderness For further information please visit the IJW website, include subscription offers: http://ijw.org/subscribe-2/ Please mention the Wilderness Foundation UK when contacting them.
Four-part BBC2 series following 6 years of "Windfarm Wars" near Dartmoor. In 2005 BBC TWO commissioned Sevenstones Media to produce Windfarm Wars, then a single observational documentary following the building of a windfarm, a story that was to become one of the UK ’s most divisive issues. Six years later, following the unravelling of this [...]
Today's Guardian education section features a profile of the Wilderness Foundation UK's pioneering intervention project for youth-at-risk - TurnAround. The article, written by Louise Tickle outlines the genesis of the project and why nature - particularly wild nature - offers a solution for disturbed youth. Wilderness Foundation UK CEO Jo Roberts says: "Being in a [...]