by | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

This blog has been produced as Part of the Every Child Wild series. Marina,  Founder and Managing Director of Circle of Life Rediscovery CIC, was asked to write a a leading outdoor learning organisation. Marina has been the recipient of funding from Natural England,...

Family Funded Woodland Projects

by | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

Families with children who have disabilities or mental health issues, very rarely get to take time out together and spend quality time as a family unit. When do they get to spend time with similar families or have a well-earned break and a bit of fun? Parents...

Swings, Ropes & Woodland Cooking

by | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

The use of ropes for making and cooking is endless! During our course back in April with Mark Lloyd, participants learnt to make rope from local plants, discover recipes using wild woodland ingredients, learn team building games and crafts.       Here,...

Remember the rocks.

by | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

“Every atom in this body existed before organic life emerged 4000 million years ago.  Remember our childhood as minerals, as lava, as rocks? Rocks contain the potentiality to weave themselves into such stuff as this.  We are the rocks dancing.  Why do we look...
Economy built upon Ecology

Economy built upon Ecology

by | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

“What would it be like, i wondered to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in the floor, the grapes in the wine; to follow back the thread of life in...
Transformative Learning into a new Paradigm

Transformative Learning into a new Paradigm

by | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

As a young woman of 19 years, I joined Friends of the Earth in Manchester in 1989 as joint Rainforest Group Coordinator.  We had all the research about the link between the timber products on sale in our stores and the cutting down of the Forests.  We were passionate,...