Workshop Leaders

  • Green Woodwork with Kent

    Kent Thodsen leads regular weekend workshops for individuals, families and weekly classes for home educating young people.

  • Little Forest School

    Little Forest School run sessions on week day mornings for children aged 0 to 7 with their parent or carer. These nurturing sessions inspire a love of the great outdoors and have been a popular fixture at the woods for over a decade.

    Contact Daisey and her team to join one of these groups or make enquiries about themed birthday parties in the woods.

  • Grow Up Wild - Home Ed Forest School

    Weekly and monthly groups for home educated young people aged 6 up - fostering curiosity, resilience and team work, this is a great group for meeting people and learning outdoors!

  • Katy & Wise Herb Collective

    Katy heads a team of Holistic Health practitioners who work from her Health Hut and offer seasonal workshops around the woods.

  • Blackbird Arts

    Adele Scantlebury, Martin Brockman and Simon Page make up Blackbird Arts - they run a number of workshops here throughout the year and have a hand in many of the art installations you will see around the wood.

  • Gazza Butcher - Primal Trail

    Gazza runs bush-craft and survival courses here at the wood, bringing a wealth of experience and real passion for his work.

  • Schools without Walls

    An outdoor education organisation based near Lewes, who can run curriculum based courses for schools here at the Wood, as well as popular creative workshops in the school holidays.

  • Yoni Suissa - Potter

    Yoni is a potter and maths tutor (among other things) - he has also written a blog about his experience of learning to timber frame.

  • Julia Dunstan Design

    Julia is a ceramacist who runs drop in workshops and can also be booked for parties for all ages at the woods.

  • Rooted Therapy

    Helen runs a range of therapeutic services for adults and children, as well as a range of therapeutic wellbeing workshops, which you will find on our What’s On page.

  • Qi Gong - Rowana Mladek

    Weekly Qi Gong classes from April to October - outdoors whenever possible.

  • Jennifer Moore

    Jennifer runs weekly art classes for home-educated youngsters, as well as some wonderful workshops in the school holidays. She has also published a spotter book of Wilderness Wood birds.