Departing 6th May 2011 "I can easily say it has been the best experience of my life and I wish it could have lasted forever" - Tess, 17 Itinerary Your journey begins with an evening flight on 6th May departing the UK for Johannesburg. You arrive on 7th May and will be met by a [...]
16 Sep 2010 - 19 Sep 2010 Scotland Wilderness Solo 16th – 20th September 2010 £475.53 Have you a desire to experience an extended period of true solitude in a wild place but feel apprehensive about venturing out alone? Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has [...]
Hopefully you remember Tom and Andy the intrepid explorers from Ride Earth who are exploring the globe by mountain bike. They left the UK back in June 2007 and have many stories to tell about sustainable travel, the culture and societies they have been welcomed into. In May 2010 Tom and Andy will be starting [...]
We are delighted to announce that the Wilderness Foundation UK has recently been accepted as a member organisation of YET - The Young Explorers Trust. YET provides a national scheme in which venture plans are evaluated and those that meet the high standard set by the Young Explorers' Trust are awarded YET Approval status., which [...]
5th – 13th March 2010 Join a group of women on a wilderness trail that is guaranteed to give you time out, peace and quiet, a good laugh, adventure, and time to just be yourself… Your journey begins with an evening flight on Friday 5th March departing the UK for Johannesburg. You arrive on 6th [...]
Our final two youth groups of the 2008 year set off for South Africa last weekend. A group from Felsted School in Essex are currently enjoying a wilderness trail in the Umfolozi Game Reserve. Located 280 km north of Durban, the reserve is the oldest proclaimed park in Africa. It consists of 960 km² (96,000 [...]
The first group of participants in the Sirius Scholarship Programme arrived back safely from Scotland last night, having spent a week on Rannoch Moor. While the weather had been less than kind, from speaking to Jo as she made her way back on the train, it was clear to me that this has been a [...]
We received this letter yesterday from Richard Millar, one of the Haberdashers' students who returned home last week from their wilderness programme in South Africa: "I just wanted to write to you to thank you for all the hard work that you put in to organise our trip to South Africa. I would have written [...]
Our first group of Sirius Scholarship Students left for Scotland early this morning, in the company of Wilderness Foundation UK Chief Executive Officer Jo Roberts. Sirius is a new programme this year, jointly developed with and funded by Tellus Mater. Applicants who were already passionate about environmental issues were required to complete an essay and [...]
Yesterday's (10/08/2008) Observer had a really interesting article entitled "Conquering the last great wilderness". The piece, by Euan Ferguson describes his walking holiday among the dramatic peaks of Scotland's Knoydart. You can read the full article online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/aug/10/scotland.walkingholidays?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront Euan's trip was organised by our travel partners in the UK - Wilderness Scotland. Coincidentally, our [...]
Last year when I led the Haberdashers' Overseas Scholarship Programme to South Africa, the group spent four days living with the Zulu people of Ekuthuleni village. This time with the Zulus forms part of our Cultural Immersion programme and is managed by our travel partners African Insight. It has been running succesfully now for several [...]
In conjunction with The Tellus Mater Foundation, Wilderness Foundation UK www.wildernessfoundation.org.uk is this year launching a new scholarship programme - Sirius. The Sirius Programme seeks to work with young people in the UK who are passionate about the environment, helping to enhance a new generation of inspired young leaders and advocates in this field. The [...]
We have been working with Brentwood School, Essex for a number of years now. Here are some of their students comments about the trail programme we organised for them in South Africa in 2007: I am sitting halfway up a tree watching the sunset over the water, listening to the cicada and the occasional hippo [...]