Funders

A big thank you to all our funders...

• Big Lottery Fund (Reaching Out) - Wilderness Therapy and Traditional/Natural Building with disaffected young people
• Heritage Lottery Fund (Your Heritage) - Traditional and Natural Building for disadvantaged adults
• Heritage Lottery Fund (Young Roots) - Natural Building for disaffected young people
• WCVA (Volunteer Coordinator Fund) - Community Natural Building
• DFID Minigrant - ESDGC Training
• Environment Wales (Russell Commission) - Cob building with homeless projects
• Social Risk Fund - Natural Building with community organisations
• Spinout and Finance Wales - Graduate Enterprise Funding

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

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

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.

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