After a rather wet and dreary winter, everything is springing to life at last at the Community Allotments and we’re just about to start our new season connecting people to nature.
We haven’t been hibernating over the winter months and everything is ready on site – we’ve cleaned and tidied, prepared the ground, sorted the seeds [...]
A graduate of the Sirius Environmental Leadership Programme was recently invited to a book launch at the House of Lords.
Sixteen year old Christopher Au, a graduate of the 2009 programme run by the Wilderness Foundation UK in conjunction with grant-giving trust the Tellus Mater Foundation, joined WFUK staff member Richard Corby at the launch of [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK, a registered experiential learning charity based in Chelmsford, Essex has announced the launch of two short training courses designed to raise awareness of the impact that people have on their environment. The courses will teach participants techniques to minimise their impact in the wild and will be beneficial to anyone who [...]
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 true wilderness [...]
We are pleased to bring you news of a course that we feel may be of interest to our Friends and supporters…
Pathways to Inner Guidance
Leona Aroha Graham & Rhiannon Hanfman
Saturday 5th June, 2010
Faced with a variety of environmental, social and economic crises in the world plus our own individual lives all demanding difficult [...]
Art Therapist and Jungian Analyst Mary-Jayne Rust (who ran our very popular “Power of Wild Places Workshop in 2008) has written to let us know about a forthcoming Ecopsychology Event that may be of interest to our Friends and participants.
Sat 23rd Jan: One Day Ecopsychology Conference at The Node, Nr Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
This one day conference [...]
There is something good about coming to the end of a busy year with the prospect of a fresh one over the horizon. It gives us time to set new goals and start afresh with new initiatives. I would like to thank everyone for their continued support and encouragement. After all, your commitment [...]
International wilderness conservation received a major boost on November 7th at the World Wilderness Congress in Merida, Mexico.
Representatives from Mexico, Canada, and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) creating a framework for future cooperation and coordination between the three nations for wilderness conservation.
“This is a historic moment for the National Park Service [...]
Today the world acknowledges the remarkable recent progress in HIV/AIDS awareness, detection, and remediation. As the Wilderness Foundation commends this progress, it remains confronted daily with the reality of the stigma, denial, and continued contraction of HIV at an alarming rate in areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Here, where the Wilderness Foundation Africa [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK’s cross-culutral young women’s leadership programme – Wild Swans – was covered in the Knysa-Plett Herald today. In an article focusing on the application and selection process that whittled down the initial 450 girls who came forward, to the four who earned the chance to join the trail in KwaZulu Natal, the [...]
