Welcome to D2E Project
'Down to Earth Project is a social enterprise specialising in Sustainability Education and Natural Building. Based on a beautiful site on the Gower Peninsula, Swansea, we offer a range of groundbreaking programmes for ‘disaffected’ young people and training programmes for adults in Traditional and Natural Building methods. As a centre for Sustainability Education (ESDGC), we offer educational programmes and training for workers from informal and formal educational sectors. We also work with schools and community organisations to design and build beautiful outdoor spaces using natural materials...
News
NEW Website coming soon... we're very excited...
Xmas Pork - we've just said goodbye to our lovely, organically reared pigs... please contact us for some yummy Xmas dinner
Professional Training
High quality and unique: our experienced trainers will provide programmes designed to both inspire participants and equip them with the skills required by their own organisations
Experiential and outdoors: inspiring venue and approaches using the natural environment as both training space and teaching tool...
Broad range of training areas:
- ESDGC and the use of the outdoors, through informal approaches
- Working with ‘hard to reach’ groups
- Wilderness Therapy
- Traditional and natural building
- School grounds/play space design and construction using natural building
- Foundation Phase and Play using natural building
Residential training available – staying in yurts and tipi-tents. Corporate and team-building programmes available too
Training: inspiring and engaging programmes for trainers, teachers, community workers, educators and other professionals… using indoor and outdoor training spaces
Download Sept 12 Working With Hard to Reach Groups Course info
Wilderness Therapy
Our approach: our Wilderness Therapy programmes are specially designed to combine outdoor learning, vocational skills and personal development with ongoing support from our experienced staff team...
Unprecedented access to therapeutic support: all day, every day... through innovative, informal approaches.
Professional and safe: our staff team are appropriately qualified in the use of the outdoors. We have CRB Enhanced disclosures and all our activities are risk assessed with Public Liability Insurance up to £5 million.
We can offer: long term, ongoing therapeutic programmes for young people or adults, group based or individual. Residential options are available, either on-site or off-site on bushcraft-based camping expeditions.
Therapy: ground-breaking programmes in Wilderness Therapy, with experienced practitioners qualified in developmental and therapeutic use of the outdoors
Eco-building
Personal development and vocational training: we work closely with our clients to ensure not only that our buildings are stunning and eco-friendly, but that the process of creating them transforms participants’ understanding of learning.
Transformative consultation & construction: we push the boundaries to ensure it is the client group who designs and creates their own buildings, from beginning to end...
Ancient skills combined with cutting edge technology: our building methods marry the finest contemporary approaches with skills and knowledge acquired over centuries. The result is breathtaking designs and structures...
What we offer includes:
- Cob building (earth)
- Timber frame construction
- Dry stone walling
- Green woodwork
- Natural renders, plasters and paints
- Straw bale building
Eco building: buildings that tell stories... inspiring training, design and construction using traditional/natural building methods…for community groups, schools grounds and private commissions.
Education & Learning
Our approach: taking learning into the outdoors, we offer a range of activities which combine personal development with practical, tangible skills in ESDGC.
Ancient skills/modern technology: our educational site demonstrates best practice in blending traditional eco-friendly building methods with the most up-to-date technological advances in renewable energy generation – and some lovely rare breed pigs!
‘Disaffected’ & ’disadvantaged’ learners: we specialise in supporting ‘hard to reach’ learners through providing experiences which meet their needs and offering new opportunities
We can offer: vocational training in traditional building skills combined with adventurous activities , wilderness expeditions, growing and cooking fantastic food...
Short or long term programmes, day long activities or residential
- OCN/Agored Cymru Approved Centre
- AALS licensed provider
Learning: outdoor, experiential programmes exploring exciting and innovative approaches to Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) for all ages