The Wilderness Foundation UK is delighted to announce that our staff team has been joined by Karin Jordan, thanks to the Vodafone World of Difference Programme. Karin has worked as a freelance consultant burnishing individual, group and business talent for over 9 years. She is a qualified experiential trainer, action learning facilitator, lecturer and coach [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK was delighted to welcome renowned Everest mountain climber Cathy O’Dowd as our guest speaker at Haberdashers’ Hall, London last night (26 Jan 2012) in an evening devoted to profiling the charity’s groundbreaking leadership development programme for young women – Wild Swans. At 8:00 a.m. on 29th May 1999 Cathy O’Dowd, a [...]
Four Sixth Formers from Clapton Girls’ Academy found themselves sleeping under the stars in a game reserve this Summer. Briony Lambert, Tania Hossain, Titilope Badru and Alexie Telan were chosen to be part of the Wild Swans Womens’ Leadership scheme which takes young women with leadership potential on a [...]
Our innovative Wild Swans programme focused on promoting the value of women’s leadership is starting to catch the eye of the media. In the Daily News, Simone Samuels says: “As the sun set over the Wilderness Leadership School in Durban, 12 girls who had just returned from a “life-changing” wilderness and cultural experience were evidence [...]
Our Wild Swans touched down in Johannesburg today to a rousing welcome from their South African counterparts. Four girls from Northern Ireland, four from Hackney in London and four South African girls will spend the next two weeks living and working together as part of a young women’s leadership development programme. The Wild Swans Programme [...]
A programme inspiring young women’s passions and leadership skills to make a difference for nature and people To Celebrate International Women’s Day the Wilderness Foundation launches The Wild Swans Programme. We will place 36 young women over the next three years, from Hackney in London, Derry in Northern Ireland and Johannesburg, South Africa, on a remarkable [...]
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 [...]
Tune into BBC Radio Essex on Sunday 20th September at 7.20am Wild Swans - four sixteen year old UK girls who returned recently from the wilderness in South Africa after spending fifteen days with four young South African girls from a very different background, will be talking about their trail and the effect it [...]
Young Women’s Leadership Through Wilderness The mix is heady : take four sixteen year old UK girls and put them in the wilderness in South Africa for fifteen days with four young South African girls from a very different background – mix fast and see what results….? The outcomes The Wilderness Foundation UK are hoping [...]
