Its festival time – Sunday 15^th September 11am-4pm

We are having a party and you are invited. This September the Wild Cat Wilderness is 10 years old so we are celebrating our community green space with a festival on Sunday 15^th and have x10 adult Wild workshops on Saturday 14^tW

10^th birthday festival
Join us for a fun day out with workshops, activities, refreshments and things to buy. All welcome. We are asking everyone to make a minimum donation of £1 per person/ child (or pay what you afford) to help raise funds for our charity project. Please bring cash for entry. Assistance dogs only.

Includes:

Music – African drumming and the Timebank Choir
Nature trail – across the site
Forest school activities and music with the Mud Club
Apple pressing and juicing
Creative and art activities in the orchard
Make a hop wreath
Visit our garden and learn about organic growing
Refreshments – food and drink on sale
Buy our homemade jams and chutneys
Face painting

Workshops on the 14^th include – Wildlife gardening and growing in a changing climate, Hatha Yoga, Natural Dyeing, Whittling/ green woodworking, Nature photography, A summer forage, Cyanotype workshop, Reiki tasters sessions, Seasonal pickling/ preserving. Book via our Eventbrite page

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/wild-workshops-3581759

Saturday 14^th September 10-4.30pm

10 nature based workshops for adults/ young people aged 16+ to celebrate 10 years of the Wild Cat Wilderness, community greenspace in Catford

All workshops have a suggested minimum donation to cover costs and help fundraise for our charity project or pay what you can afford.

Including – Wildlife gardening and growing in a changing climate, Hatha Yoga, Natural Dyeing, Whittling/ green woodworking, Nature photography, A summer forage, Cynotype workshop, Reiki tasters sessions, Seasonal pickling/ preserving

Book via our Eventbrite page – https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/wild-workshops-3581759

Wild Explorers

Join us for a summer of fun outdoors.

Wild Explorers with 15 events over the summer with activities including: campfire cooking, minibeast hunt, fruit picking, meet the bees, den building, whittling, creative activities and lots more.

As a charity we welcome everyone to our wild community space (sorry no dogs aside assistance animals). All activities are free but some have a small fee to cover costs but donations towards our charity really welcome and there will be a cash collection tin on the day or you can make a donation to our charity here https://localgiving.org/fundraising/wildcatwilderness Join in with your child/ren and meet other local people and families.

To book go to the What’s On page of the website and use the drop down menu to book places. Please book for all adults and children coming.

July

Sunday 14^th July 10-1. Last entry 12 Minibeast morning with Kyra

Sunday 28^th 10-1 July Last entry 12 Den building, balancing and tree climbing with Angela

Weds 31^st July 10.30- 1 July Last entry 11 Meet the bees with Maria

August

Thursday 1^st 1-3pm August. Last entry 2pm Fruit picking

Friday 2^nd 10-1. Last entry 12 Weaving – make a wand, dream catcher, weave a stick…

Monday 5^th August 10-1. Last entry 12 Nature Art with Kyra

Weds 7^th August 10.30-1.30. Entry between 10-10.30 only. Last entry 10.30 Campfire pizzas with Maria

Saturday 10^th August 10-1. Last entry 12 Stick fun with Angela

Tuesday 13^th August 10-1. Last entry 12 Leaf printing and bark rubbing with Angela

Saturday 17^th August 10-1. Last entry 12 Making bubbles with Angela

Tuesday 20^th 10.30-1.30. Last entry 11am Wild cooking and pickle making with Maria

Thursday 22^nd 10-1. Last entry 11am Whittling with Maria

Friday 23^rd 1.30-3.30. Last entry 2pm Clay creatures with Maria

Sunday 25th 10-1. Last entry 12 Stories and adventures with Kyra

Wednesday 28^th 10-1. Last entry 12 Campfire cooking and creative activities with Ellie and Emily

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Big Help Out – Help restore the woodland (volunteering morning)
As part of the Big Help out help restore the woodland – volunteering morning

Sunday 9^th June 10-12.30

Please note that entry isn’t via our gate in Riverview Park.
Head for no 77 Winsford Road SE6 4LT. Continue along Winsford Road towards the River Pool, on the left opposite the Bellingham Play Park head for the communications tower which is in the left hand corner of the council green space. Our new woodland gate is there.

The new gate in #Bellingham is in this location on #what3words
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All welcome. Drop in anytime.

Help us restore our woodland near Bellingham. We are extending our wonderful community space into the woodland area, which hasn’t been touched in decades. But the woodland needs our help. It is overgrown, so the trees need releasing from ivy and bramble and spaces and rubbish cleared so we can use this as a community space. This will benefit nature and people. All welcome as there is something for everyone to get involved in. Bring some gloves if you have them, all tools provided. Bring drinks/ water and wear outdoor clothes.

Join us for a picnic and bring your teddy (or other favourite soft toy)
Bring a rug or chair plus your picnic food.
Book your places so that we know how many people are coming.
There will be storytelling at 2pm.
Last entry 3pm.

Big Lunch and teddy bears picnic
Sunday 2nd June 12-4.30pm last entry 3pm

Plant Sale and Open Day Sunday 19th May 10am-2pm

Entrance via the gate next to no 53 Riverview Park, Catford SE6 4PL shared with Long Meadow Allotment (no entry from River Pool).

All ages welcome. Come and explore our wonderful community space and buy your herbs, vegetable plants, fruit bushes and strawberries and help plant sunflowers in our pollinator bed.

Refreshments available. Cash and cards accepted but cash preferred. Bring a bag for your goodies.

All our plants are grown using Garden Organic’s Organic Guidelines from seed or cuttings and we use organic, peat free compost, when possible, and recycled pots. We have herbs, tomatoes, chillies, courgettes, cucumbers, kale, broccolli, beans, pumpkins and squash, strawberries, fruit bushes and a whole host of other things for your kitchen garden, window ledge or indoor pot. Prices between £2-5 plus free gardening advice from our growers.
All money will support the Wild Cat Wilderness, which is a project of the Lewisham Local charity.

The new fence and gate is up at the woodland end of our site near the Bellingham Playpark. We can now work with local volunteers to restore and manage the woodland so that it’s an accessible community space. We will also be piloting our new green prescriptions project ‘woodland for wellbeing’ to help with mental health recovery. The new area will also be available to local schools and can be used for forest school sessions. We are also hoping to run green woodworking sessions. We have already uncovered a small area with native bluebells. There is a lot of work to do so we will be launching some weekend volunteer sessions so the local community can help out. Watch this space or contact Maria if you are interested in getting involved wcw@rgtb.org.uk