Conservation Education

Our education programmes offer curriculum linked experiential outdoor workshops from pre-school, primary to secondary school level.

Our Education Projects

Chatham Green School Visits

Chatham Green School Visits

Engaging over 4,000 school children every year, our award winning and dynamic project brings the curriculum to life, linking the natural environment, food and farming.

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Imbewu

Imbewu Wilderness Project in Scotland

Focusing on employability, social skills and connecting young people to nature, this week long programme inspires young Scots to fulfil their potential through the natural world.

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Down to Earth Allotment

Working with young people at risk through a year long programme, supporting young people to take control of their lives, through intensive, specialist mentoring and activities.

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Forest Kids

Our weekly Forest Kids Club, come and learn what is special about your local environment, and the animals and plants you share it with, while making friends over the camp fire.

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Wilderness Therapy

Wilderness Foundation TurnAround Project

Our Wilderness Therapy trails & day programmes take you deep into nature & wild places, away in space & time from the pressures & immediate issues that you are struggling with on a day to day basis.

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Latest News

CEO’s Blog – Spring 2026

By |April 7th, 2026|

Dear Friends, supporters and colleagues, I am just in from a walk in our wonderful woods surrounding us in our village in Essex. I felt uplifted and grateful not just for sun coming out but [...]

CEO’s Blog – Winter 2025

By |December 19th, 2025|

Dear Friends, This is a special time of year to sit back and reflect on the past 12 months and to look forward to the New Year with all its promise. If we didn’t [...]

CEO’s Blog – Autumn 2025

By |September 25th, 2025|

Dear Friends,Seasons come and go, and we live within the passages of time. It has always been thus, and now autumn is upon us. I love the cooling of air in the late afternoon and [...]

CEO’s Blog – Summer 2025

By |July 14th, 2025|

Dear Friends, Welcome to our Summer Newsletter. A small black ball of fluff – so tiny that it was hard to see effectively – was making its way across one of the roads I [...]

CEO’s Blog – Spring 2025

By |March 26th, 2025|

Dear Friends, It’s that time.. Spring is in the air! Welcome to our Spring Newsletter, in which we celebrate the seasons changing from winter to spring. A time when we can look back at [...]

Winners of the High Sheriff’s Shield 2025

By |March 12th, 2025|

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 [...]