Families & Communities
Nature-based woodland experiences for families, children, and young people
Wildlings offers gentle, nature-connected experiences for families, children, and young people seeking connection, wellbeing, and meaningful time outdoors.
Our woodland provides a calm, welcoming space where children and young people can explore, play, learn new skills, and build relationships at their own pace, supported by experienced and attentive facilitators.
We welcome families who educate otherwise, including but not limited to:
Electivel Home Educators
Fexi-schoolers
EOTAS packages
How would you like to be involved?
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Term-Time Woodland Sessions
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Holiday & One-Off Woodland Experiences
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Our term-time woodland sessions are small, consistent group experiences that run across the school term. Groups are intentionally kept small, and we take care to ensure that sessions feel like a good fit for everyone involved.
The focus is on wellbeing, connection, and steady engagement, rather than outcomes or performance. Sessions follow a predictable rhythm that supports confidence, regulation, and a sense of belonging over time.
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Sessions take place within our private woodland setting and follow a calm, familiar structure. Time is shared between practical or creative activities, group experiences, and space for play and exploration.
This balance allows children and young people to engage at their own pace, build relationships naturally, and grow in confidence across the term.
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We offer a small number of distinct session types. Some sessions are currently running, while others are offered subject to demand or operate as a waiting list.
Circle Sessions
Small, drop-off group sessions for children, organised by age range. These sessions focus on connection, cooperation, shared activities, and time spent together in nature within a consistent group.
Basecamp Sessions
Sessions designed for teenagers, offering a slightly different pace and emphasis. These sessions support independence, confidence, and peer connection within a woodland setting.
Haven Sessions
Supported parent-and-child sessions for children with higher support needs. These sessions allow parents or carers to stay alongside their child, offering shared regulation, gentle engagement, and time in nature together.
Details of current days, times, and age ranges are listed on the application form.
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Our sessions are suited to families who are seeking a calmer, more relational approach to time outdoors. They may suit children and young people who benefit from smaller groups, predictable routines, and space to engage at their own pace.
Families may be looking for connection, confidence-building, or an alternative rhythm to busy or highly structured environments. These sessions are not academically focused and are not designed around targets or outcomes.
They work particularly well for those who find busy or highly structured environments challenging, and who thrive when learning and engagement are grounded in nature and relationship.
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Places for our term-time sessions are limited. To ensure groups are a good fit for everyone involved, all term-time sessions are accessed via an application process.
Families are invited to complete an application form, which allows us to understand your child’s needs, interests, and whether a particular session may be suitable. Where sessions are full, applications may be held on a waiting list.
Term-Time Woodland Sessions
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These sessions are designed as standalone experiences, providing space to enjoy nature, connect with others, and take part in shared activities in a calm, welcoming environment.
While these sessions are shorter-term, they are held with the same care, values, and attentiveness that run through all Wildlings work.
The emphasis is on connection, shared experience, and wellbeing, with activities shaped by the season, the group, and the natural environment.
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These sessions take place in our woodland setting and follow a gentle, flexible rhythm. Days typically include a mix of practical activities, creative projects, group time, and opportunities for free play and exploration.
There is space for movement, rest, conversation, and quiet engagement. Sessions are designed to feel enjoyable and grounding rather than busy or overstimulating, offering opportunities for social connection, creativity, and outdoor enjoyment.
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Holiday Camps are drop-off day camps that run during school holidays. Children and young people spend the day outdoors in the woodland, taking part in a variety of activities alongside time to play, explore, and build connections with others.
Holiday Camps are bookable directly when dates are released via our Bookings page.
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We also offer private woodland parties for birthdays and celebrations. These are one-off events held in our woodland setting, shaped around the age group and season.
Full details, availability, and booking information can be found on our Woodland Parties page.
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From time to time, we may offer one-off woodland workshops for families or specific groups. These sessions vary across the year and will be listed when available.
Workshops are bookable directly fom our Bookings page and shared through our mailing list.
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Holiday Camps, Woodland Parties, and one-off workshops can be booked directly when dates are available. There is no application process for these sessions.
View Holiday Camps
Visit Woodland Parties
View Upcoming Workshops
Availability varies across the year. If you’d like more information, do get in email us with any questions.
Holiday & One-Off Woodland Experiences
Who We Are
Wildlings is a small, values-led organisation rooted in relationship, presence, and time spent outdoors. Our work centres around creating calm, welcoming woodland spaces where children, young people, and families can slow down, feel at ease, and spend meaningful time together in nature.
We are not a drop-in activity provider or a high-energy outdoor club. What we offer is quieter and more intentional — spaces where people can arrive as they are, without pressure to perform, achieve, or fit a particular mould.
Our woodland is held with care by experienced facilitators who understand the importance of rhythm, safety, and attuned support. We place great value on consistency, trust, and the quality of relationships that form over time
How We Work
Wildlings works through shared woodland experiences that prioritise wellbeing, connection, and a steady pace. Our Families & Community offer brings together people who are looking for something gentler than mainstream activities — whether that’s enrichment, community, or an alternative way of learning and spending time outdoors.
Sessions are intentionally simple. We keep group sizes manageable, hold clear boundaries, and allow space for both togetherness and independence. This creates an environment where children and young people can explore, play, talk, and participate without being pushed or overstimulated.
Families come to Wildlings for many reasons. Some are seeking regular rhythm and connection during the week. Others are looking for holiday experiences that feel grounded and nourishing rather than busy. We hold space for this range without needing to categorise or label people.
Our Approach
At Wildlings, wellbeing comes first - not as a programme or intervention, but as the foundation for everything else.
We focus on creating environments where children and young people feel safe enough to be themselves. From that place, confidence, creativity, communication, and learning are able to grow naturally. We do not work to academic targets or externally imposed outcomes within our Families & Community offer.
Our approach is relational and predictable. Sessions follow familiar rhythms, facilitators are consistent and present, and expectations are clear but flexible. We value curiosity, practical skills, play, and shared experiences, allowing each child or young person to engage in ways that feel authentic and self-directed.
Learning Rooted in Nature and Rhythm
Time at Wildlings is shaped by the natural environment and the people within it. Being outdoors offers space - to move, to pause, to notice, and to connect - supporting emotional regulation and a sense of ease that is often harder to access indoors.
Sessions typically include a balance of guided activities and open-ended time. Practical or creative moments invite children and young people to make, build, try, or collaborate. Alongside this, there is always space for free play, exploration, conversation, and rest.
Across a term, familiar routines support predictability and trust, while relationships and interests are given time to develop. Nothing is rushed. Growth is allowed to happen at its own pace.
