Wild Inside Festival
– save the date/ volunteer
20^th Feb
St Laurence Centre
37 Bromley Road SE6 2TS

Volunteers needed 1-6pm

Event time is 2-5pm

A celebration of the Wild Cat Wilderness.

Come and experience what our community project is all about but this time indoors. A great afternoon for everyone with activities, workshops, competitions, entertainment plus food and drink.

Activities include:

Things to make/activities – Scaffold benches, Greeting cards, Campfire stew, Bird feeders, Stick men, Paint 3D butterflies, Finger print tree

Learn about – Bugs, Butterflies, Birds, Trees, Composting, Planning your thrifty veg garden, Wildlife gardening

We are also looking for volunteers on the day to help out so please get in touch.
If you are a community project in Catford and would like a stall or to run an activity then please contact us wcw@rgtb.org.uk

Book your free tickets now.

The wishing tree gets a Christmas makeover

We drew on wood chips and tied them to the wishing tree, which will be the WCW Christmas tree for yuletide.

Back to basics wreath making with coat hangers and foraged holly

Some of us braved windy weather to make Christmas wreaths this Saturday. This was DIY Christmas decorating. We put on our gardening gloves and got out our secators and cut twigs and holly.

Stretching the coat hangars

Then we wrapped them round some coat hangers that we had stretched out into a circle. I was pretty remedial at this task, and my wreath was quite sparse compared to some people’s.  It was particularly tricky to wind the twigs round the coat hangar without breaking them.

Wreath making round the fire

For a bit mine looked more like a crown of thorns than a wreath, which wasn’t seasonal. Still Maria was on hand to give her “Wreath Lectures” as I drolly like to think of them.

Maria gives a wreath lecture

Eventually I got something that I felt was good enough to stick on my door at home.  The one you can see below wasn’t mine, however. It was Thermula’s, who did a slightly better job than me, so I thought it would be better if she modelled her work.

Thermula with her wreath

scary goings on at wcw halloween bash

Our halloween party featured story telling, making pumpkin faces, and a ukelele class. Maxine Haffner of the Catford Charity Strummers made a second appearance at the wilderness.  This time we strummed along to halloween based scary classics, such as Monster Mash, and Bad Moon Rising. She was back by popular demand after the success of the previous session in July.  However, this was the first time children had joined in the ukulele playing.

The scary story was about a Brazillian folk tale about a salt monster. It featured capoeira dancing, which is a dance from Brazil which is also a martial art. A Brazillian instrument called a berimbau was played during the story. The audience were encouraged to participate. Some of them participated without encouragement.

As the night drew in, some people even claim to have sighted spooks appearing!

Autumn and winter events

All our autumn and winter free events for anyone ages 4-104.

Book to reserve your places online via the ‘whats on’ section
Includes another fantastic ukulele session, a conker championship, camp fire stew, sparklers, bonfire…..