The Wilderness Foundation South Africa was announced as the winner in the Social Entrepreneur category for the 2011 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Awards Programme at the ceremony held last night, 17 November 2011. Wilderness Foundation director, Andrew Muir was one of four finalists selected for the 2011 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Awards Programme [...]
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 [...]
On Saturday 21st November TurnAround Two came to a close. Surrounded by families, friends, mentors, patrons and funders, the young participants enjoyed an evening of celebration to mark their successful completion of the programme. We were delighted to be joined by Mr Rupert Gosling, The High Sheriff of Essex, together with Mr Andrew Sheepshanks, one [...]
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 [...]
Wilderness Foundation UK CEO Jo Roberts is currently in Mexico attending the ninth World Wilderness Congress (WWC) – dubbed “Wild9 – Feel, Think, Act.” The WWC is the longest-running, public international environmental forum. It is a conservation project that creates coalitions, establishes time-lines, sets objectives and achieves practical outcomes. Established in 1977, it has in [...]
Our friends at the Umzi Wethu Training Academy have now launched their own blog site. Paul Longe, the Student Development Coordinator at the Academy tells us: With so many exciting developments happening at Umzi each week we’ve decided to set up a blog as a way to share the news with everyone. While much of [...]
Participants in the Wilderness Foundation UK’s intervention programme for vulnerable youth – The TurnAround Project – have this week literally started to chart a new course. A group of six participants, together with Wilderness Foundation UK CEO Jo Roberts, volunteers Roy Perry and Paul Morris and a University of Essex Researcher, Jo Barton all stepped [...]
TurnAround is a twelve month long intervention programme for vulnerable youth in mid-Essex, created and managed by the Wilderness Foundation UK. Over four years in development, and having completed a successful pilot programme in 2007 (where we achieved an outstanding 80% success rate in returning participants to full time education and employment – rather than [...]
The Living Mountain, Rhinog Mountains, Gwynedd, N. Wales 28th-30th Aug 2009 (option to stay on until 31st no extra cost) Cost £100, Camping, self catering The Living Mountain will be a weekend exploring our inner worlds in relation to the wild and beautiful outer environment of the Rhinog Mountains in North Wales. We will camp [...]
If you are scared, what do you do? How do you be? How do you support others when you are feeling vulnerable? How do you manage yourself in a crisis? And how do you lead yourself out of it? Can you find meaning or a catalyst for change in the midst of crisis and craziness? [...]
Title: Earth Walk Location: East Sussex and West Kent Description: The “walks” will be short walks of about a couple of hours, usually set in the beautiful Wealden countryside of East Sussex and West Kent. We will walk at a leisurely pace stopping often to give our senses a chance to take in aspects of [...]
Since becoming a beneficiary of the Rolex Award for Enterprise in November 2008, Wilderness Foundation UK director and the driving force behind the Umzi Wethu initiative in South Africa Andrew Muir has hardly been out of the news. The latest publication to feature Andrew and the work going on at Umzi Wethu is online journal [...]
I was down at our Community Allotments site on Wednesday morning, at the Hobart Close site here in Chelmsford. Charlie was already busy at work, measuring up the greenhouses for the polycarbonate sheeting we are going to use instead of glass (for safety reasons). This is being funded by our recent grant from the O2 [...]
The Rolex Awards honour those who “demonstrate a spirit of enterprise and address pressing needs around the world.” The Wilderness Foundation UK has long supported and produced the Umzi Wethu project because it addresses one of the most pressing needs of our time – HIV/AIDS – with a unique and succesful model integrating job training, [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK Community Allotments Project in Chelmsford, Essex has been recognised by the O2 “It’s Your Communtiy” initiative as one of the Top 15 Community Champions. O2 have awarded the project a maximum grant of £1,000 which the Foundation will be using in the construction of two new areas of the allotments – [...]
