We are delighted to welcome our new Trainee Instructor, Holly Kirkwood to the team.
Holly is passionate about conservation, rewilding and working with nature. She has experience teaching both archery in America and skateboarding in Glasgow, and has been beekeeping in Glenshee from a young age. She have taken part in various tree planting projects, and has a keen interest in medicinal and edible plants, specifically relating to traditional highland & celtic culture.
Holly hopes to become a qualified outdoor instructor while working with Wild Things, lead her own sessions, and also carry out conservation work.
Welcome Holly, we’re certain you will be a very valuable addition to our team!
We are delighted to welcome our new Trainee Instructor, Holly Kirkwood to the team. Holly is passionate about conservation, rewilding and working with nature. She has experience teaching both archery in America and skateboarding in Glasgow, and has been beekeeping in Glenshee from a young age. She have taken part in various tree planting projects, … Continued
This year, our AGM will once more be hosted online. If you would like to join us, we’d love to see you and we’ll be online on Friday 20th of August 2021 at 5.30pm (BST). If you’d like to join us then send us an email and we’ll give you the link. Our 2020 … Continued
We all know that getting out into nature is great for getting exercise and to support our mental health. Now we would like to ask you to consider setting yourself a bit of a challenge and walking 5km to support Wild Things with a donation of £5. You could do a nature survey, or perhaps … Continued
We’d like to let you know about our Growing Wild and Well programme which is a free 12-week wellbeing course for adults designed to support physical and mental health, as well as skill development through engaging environmental activities in woodland and coastal settings. On completion of the course participants will be awarded a level 1 … Continued
Sir Tony Robinson honours Wild Things – Environmental Education in Action Today, Wednesday 2nd of December 2020), at Stonehenge, television presenter Sir Tony Robinson will unveil a display to celebrate eight “unsung champions of heritage”. The stones will be lit up with images of representatives of eight charities from across the nation, and Wild … Continued
Have you seen our Stay Wild at Home Programme? It started with the Covid crisis when we wanted to make resources available to people who were stuck indoors, and to encourage people to get outside, even if it was only in their own gardens. Later on, as it became apparent that going into care homes … Continued
Wild Things is delighted to support Moray Council and local keyworkers through the Summer Hubs provision for the children of keyworkers. We have developed a fun filled programme of nature themed games and activities designed to increase their understanding and appreciation of nature. Our summer hub sessions are packed with crafts, games, nature-art as well … Continued
Many congratulations to the Buchan Battalion Boys Brigade for winning the P&J minibus competition. While we were dissapointed not to win we were humbled and delighted with the strong support we received from the community. We collected over 1550 tokens which gave us 31 entries. Our sincere thanks to everyone who went to the … Continued
Wild things! have joined Easyfundraising to help raise funds for our Silver Saplings Appeal. You can help by simply shopping through Easyfundraising
We’ve had absolutely fantastic support from the local community in Findhorn with collecting tokens from the Press and Journal to enter into their competition to win a new minibus. Each entry needs 50 tokens and so far we’ve managed to enter 7 times – that’s 350 tokens with hopefully more to come! Now … Continued
