Dear Friends, One night this week was one of those incredible moments in life as five planets lined up in the sky. Jupiter, Mars and Venus could be seen with the naked eye, but Uranus and Mercury needed a telescope. I caught some of the spectacle in the early evening, having just finished supporting [...]
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 Friends, I am writing this in sunshine and blue skies after our freezing cold spell in the UK recently. British weather is a great reflection on life in general – how quickly things can change and how we need to be ready for all eventualities. This analogy sums up our year here at the [...]
Dear Friends, Writing here, from our offices in the Essex countryside the heat is palpable and the temperature is 36 degrees indoors. Sun beats in through the windows and the hot wind brings little relief. The impact of a changing climate could not be more palpable and overwhelming and brings tidings of our need [...]
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 [...]
Dear Friends, It has definitely been quite a year of change and adaptation. We have all experienced the same trends on a local and national scale that are out there internationally – including covid, climate change, equality and diversity awareness, political ups and downs, impacts of population, conflict, migrants, and increased urban and industrial [...]
Dear Friends, We have the smell of freedom in our nostrils at the moment as the 19th of July looms as a date for lifting our Covid restrictions. I wonder what this will mean for us all - but sense we will all adapt in different ways -some of us revelling and partying, others [...]
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, As I write, the office is alive with staff and outdoor therapists all streaming back in from their various programmes in the woods and fields surrounding our office. Those stuck indoors welcome the smell of woodsmoke that follows them around, as if hinting of the outdoors and the experiences [...]