We are delighted to announce that the Wilderness Foundation UK has recently been accepted as a member organisation of YET – The Young Explorers Trust.
YET provides a national scheme in which venture plans are evaluated and those that meet the high standard set by the Young Explorers’ Trust are awarded YET Approval status., [...]
5th – 13th March 2010
Join a group of women on a wilderness trail that is guaranteed to give you time out, peace and quiet, a good laugh, adventure, and time to just be yourself…
Your journey begins with an evening flight on Friday 5th March departing the UK for Johannesburg. You arrive on 6th March and [...]
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 [...]
Are you up to a challenge?
Places still available for next year’s Coast to Coast Walking Challenge across Scotland
If you felt inspired by Nick’s adventure in our last news bulletin, then why not challenge yourself and join us on our Coast to Coast walk across Scotland next year.
30th April to 3rd May 2010
(other dates available throughout [...]
St. James Indepent School will be boarding a plane bound for South Africa later today. For the second year running, a group of boys will be spending sixteen days in the wilderness regions of this spectacular and unique destination, guided through the Umfolozi Game Reserve and Drakensberg Mountains by our colleagues from the Wilderness Leadership [...]
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 for are [...]
Title: Wild Leaders Youth Conference
Location: London – TBC
Description: Our second conference will give you the chance to attend talks and lectures from respected environmental leaders and campaigners; develop a wealth of different skills and gain the knowledge you need to lead community activities, projects and treks; join facilitated workshops to discuss and plan how you [...]
Title: Pilanesberg & Kalahari Wilderness Trail
Description: A fantastic opportunity to be part of a trail team travelling into the Pilanesberg Game Reserve and Kalahari Desert Wilderness. For more information please contact Leigh on 01245 443073 or leighferris@wildernessfoundation.org.uk
Start Date: 21st August 2009
End Date: 30th August 2009
Title: Coast to Coast Charity Challenge
Location: Scotland
Description: We have teamed up with Charity Challenge to provide 20 places for intrepid walkers ready to cross Scotland from the East to West coasts, raising funds for the Wilderness Foundation as they go. If you would like to join the challenge contact Leigh on 01245 443073 or [...]
If like us you have been following the daily travels of Mark Evans and John Smith as they spend 28 days living and travelling in the sands of the Empty Quarter in Oman, you will know that their desert adventure is now drawing to a close.
What a journey it has been and what amazing sights [...]
