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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wilderness Foundation CEO Jo Roberts guested on BBC Radio Essex Breakfast Show last Sunday (23rd August 2009). Jo was invited to join progamme host Ian Wyatt review the Sunday papers and also talk a little about the work of the Foundation in Essex and further afield. Jo said: “It was a really great opportunity for [...]
