Woodcraft Folk is a UK charity that supports over 10,000 children and young people in informal, cooperative education through outdoor activities led by 2,750 adult volunteers. Some of the activities Woodcraft Folk offers include nature trails, camping, den building, bushcraft, outdoor skills, camping, campfires, and badge work focused on areas like ecology, hiking, and tree and plant identification. Woodcraft Folk aims to provide an education for social change and an awareness of sustainability through outdoor learning experiences.

1. Transforming Learning
Debs McCahon
Woodcraft Folk
& Dominic Higgins
TheConservation Volunteers

2. Debs McCahon
Membership Development Manager
Deborah.mccahon@woodcraft.org.uk
0845 217 8939
www.woodcraft.org.uk

3. • Woodcraft Folk, established in 1925, is a
registered Charity operating across the UK.
• Woodcraft Folk support the engagement of
over 10,000 children and young people in
informal co-operative education, supported
by 2,750 adult volunteers.
Who are the Woodcraft
Folk?

4. Green Hubs: Focal points for care for local green places
Chestnut Fund: Helping community environmental projects
get started
Community Network: 2,000 community organisations
looking after the green places that matter to them
Training: For skills and jobs
Big Green Weekend and Green Heroes: The UK's
biggest weekend of conservation action, celebrating the
people who make the difference
Reclaiming green places since 1959

5. Woodcraft Folk was
established in post-
war Britain, with the
underlying aim to
take children from
South London out
into the countryside.
Origins

6. “Outdoor life in its Includes 9 principles:
broadest sense.” recreation, camping,
self-government,
Ernest Thompson brotherhood,
Seton, 1902 woodcraft pursuits,
non-competitive
What is Woodcraft?

7. • Education for Social Change, a critical
awareness of the world
• One world, exploring issues of sustainability
• The Rights of the Child, encouraging
children to participate responsibly and
democratically
Woodcraft’s aims &
principles

8. Research has shown
that although 87 per
cent of parents wish
their offspring spent
more time outside,
one in four is too
afraid about their
safety to let them do
so.
Playing Out

9. Or flying…

10. Crafts

11. • I camp – camping
& camp cooking
• Ecologist – Food
chains, habitats
• I hike – ramble,
country code
• I see & know -
identify trees, mini-
beats
Badgework

12. Nature trails

13. Orienteering

14. Geocaching

15. Foraging

16. Den building

17. Camping & campfires

18. Woodcraft Folk have
5 residential centres
and a number of
camp sites across the
country.
Outdoor Centres

19. Bushcraft

20. Using tools

21. Pedal power

22. Face your Elephant

23. • Forest Schools Network
• Woodland Trust’s Nature Detectives
• & a wide range of Woodcraft Folk resource
packs e.g. Bushcraft, Big Camp Guide,
Grasp the Nettle
Sources of support

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