The Wilderness Foundation UK

0300 123 3073

Connecting Wilderness and People, Preserving Wild Places and Changing Lives

The Wilderness Foundation UK is a charity based in rural Essex helping young people reconnect to society and themselves through outdoor adventure and mentoring. Our programme facilitation highlights the positive impact of nature on personal and social well being. Developing stewardship for nature and wild places is imbued through teaching of Leave no Trace Ethics and the John Muir Award, alongside volunteering opportunities. Our mission is to preserve wild places and change lives through outreach programmes that educate, inspire and reconnect young people facing a number of challenges in their lives. The content of these programmes aims to equip and enable young people to acquire skills from within themselves to navigate their futures safely and successfully. We are working to keep people healthy and our planet wild!

The organisation is dedicated to the protection of the world's wilderness places by: educating people about the benefits of wilderness; providing opportunities for direct experience of wild places; campaigning for their preservation when threatened with development.

Why the community needs us
For over 30 years we have been connecting people with wild places through our pioneering programme of initiatives. Our participants benefit from nature's significant contribution to the discovery of identity and perspective as well as leadership training and development. Vulnerable young people, supported by mentors and wilderness therapists explore, and grow to understand, their personal responsibility for making positive changes in their lives.

Our impact on the community
Each year we work with over 6,000 adults, children and young people, helping them to benefit from the irreplaceable quality of wilderness as a positive force for social and environmental sustainability.

Volunteers needed

Conservation Education Support Volunteer, Groundskeeper/Gardener/Allotment worker

What your gift could provide

£70

x1 wilderness therapy day session

£150

x1 Facilitator for a Wilderness Activity Day

£300

Training for 12 Mentors

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Charity Information

The Wilderness Foundation UK

Telephone: 0300 123 3073

Address: Unit 2 Whitbreads Business Centre, Whitbreads Farm Lane, Chatham Green Essex CM3 3FE

Established in: 2007

Registered charity no.: 1118493