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 [...]
The Foundation is now working with Chelmsford Women’s Aid to deliver a programme for a number of vulnerable young people who have experienced violence. We urgently need to raise the funds to help these youngsters and are asking for your help by joining us at this quiz, organised by Marie Manning. THE BIG QUIZ Saturday [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK offices will close for Christmas on Thursday 22nd December 2011 and re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2012. In an emergency or urgent situation please text (07932) 944077 with your contact details and we will call you back as soon as possible. May we take this opportunity to thank you for your [...]
Christmas is fast approaching and it may be that you haven’t quite yet managed to pin down that slightly different or unusual gift for a loved one or friend. Here at the Foundation we have a couple of suggestions that might just help you out. An evening with Everest climber Cathy O’Dowd How about giving [...]
Cathy O’Dowd is the first woman to climb Everest from both south and north sides. She has stood on the slopes of the world’s highest mountain four times, reaching its summit twice. On Thursday 26th January 2012 Cathy will be our guest speaker at Haberdashers’ Hall in London, donating her time to support and promote [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK is pleased to confirm that it will be running two accredited “Leave No Trace” courses later this year. Once again our instructor will be Myles Farnbank and this time the courses will be based at our new rural offices in Chatham Green, Essex. Myles will be delivering two programmes for us: [...]
Join the Wilderness Foundation UK for an afternoon illustrated talk at Chelsea Physic Garden on Wednesday 8th June 2011 The tension between the impact of travel and tourism along with the need to conserve and care for the planet carries responsibilities. This discussion and illustrated talk takes a closer look at our carbon footprint and [...]
Blair Atholl Estate, Perthshire, Scotland 19th – 23rd May 2011 The Wilderness Solo Experience is an extended period of true solitude in a wild place providing an opportunity to connect with deeper aspects of ourselves and the world around us – in a way that is enriching, empowering and transformative. We will begin the [...]
Join the Wilderness Foundation UK and Rarer Cancers Trust for a fundraising evening of fun and games at Little Baddow Village Hall on Friday 17th June 2011. Our “Out of Africa” quiz and supper evening has an African theme – but don’t be put off – most of the questions are general knowledge based and [...]
What on earth is happening to our planet? Who knows what and what can or should be done about it? The Wilderness Culture Club will be seeking answers to these questions when we visit the National Theatre on Wednesday 16th March for a performance of the exciting new documentary theatre production “Greenland”. The questions we [...]
The Wilderness Culture Club is delighted to announce details of our visit to the Queens Gallery, London on Saturday 19th November 2011. On this occasion we will be visiting the exhibition “The Heart of the Great Alone“. This exhibition of remarkable photographs taken in Antarctica by Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley marks the 100th anniversary [...]
Following on from the success of our exhibition and supper evenings in 2010, we are pleased to announce the first Wilderness Culture Club evening for 2011: Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year Join the Wilderness Foundation UK team for a Friday night out in London. Our evening will begin with a viewing of the [...]
A two day conference focusing on “restoring the natural heart of Europe” has opened in Brussels, Belgium today (16/11/2010). Having received official accreditation from the EC Presidency and support from the European Commission, the conference will review the success stories of restoration across Europe, learn of ambitious plans for new areas and develop a joint [...]
We’re very excited to share news of a new course co-led by Mary-Jayne Rust and Dave Key at Schumacher College. The three week course brings together some great teachers from around the world to explore the rapidly emerging field of ecopsychology. Ecopsychology – psychology in service to the earth – has a fundamentally important role [...]
6.30–‐8.30pm 10 December 2010 at Re-Vision, 97, Brondesbury Road, London Nick will be discussing some themes from his forthcoming book ‘Wild Therapy: Undomesticating Inner and Outer Worlds’, which links Ecopsychology with issues of social and individual control versus spontaneity, and on a smaller scale with the regulation and monitoring of psychotherapy and counselling. ‘Wild therapy’ [...]
