Departing 6th May 2011 “I can easily say it has been the best experience of my life and I wish it could have lasted forever” – Tess, 17 Itinerary Your journey begins with an evening flight on 6th May departing the UK for Johannesburg. You arrive on 7th May and will be met by a [...]
16 Sep 2010 – 19 Sep 2010 Scotland Wilderness Solo 16th – 20th September 2010 £475.53 Have you a desire to experience an extended period of true solitude in a wild place but feel apprehensive about venturing out alone? Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has [...]
Hopefully you remember Tom and Andy the intrepid explorers from Ride Earth who are exploring the globe by mountain bike. They left the UK back in June 2007 and have many stories to tell about sustainable travel, the culture and societies they have been welcomed into. In May 2010 Tom and Andy will be starting [...]
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., which [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wild Heart Consulting are offering places on a twelve month personal development programme with its heart set in the South Africa Wilderness. The programmes offers you the chance to: Experience a soulful wilderness trail; Bring the wild, authentic you to consciousness; Adventure on a profound and transformig inner and outer journey; Experience a raw nature; [...]
Our final two youth groups of the 2008 year set off for South Africa last weekend. A group from Felsted School in Essex are currently enjoying a wilderness trail in the Umfolozi Game Reserve. Located 280 km north of Durban, the reserve is the oldest proclaimed park in Africa. It consists of 960 km² (96,000 [...]
The first group of participants in the Sirius Scholarship Programme arrived back safely from Scotland last night, having spent a week on Rannoch Moor. While the weather had been less than kind, from speaking to Jo as she made her way back on the train, it was clear to me that this has been a [...]
We received this letter yesterday from Richard Millar, one of the Haberdashers’ students who returned home last week from their wilderness programme in South Africa: “I just wanted to write to you to thank you for all the hard work that you put in to organise our trip to South Africa. I would have written [...]
Our first group of Sirius Scholarship Students left for Scotland early this morning, in the company of Wilderness Foundation UK Chief Executive Officer Jo Roberts. Sirius is a new programme this year, jointly developed with and funded by Tellus Mater. Applicants who were already passionate about environmental issues were required to complete an essay and [...]
