Urban Harvest Festival – Open day – Sunday 19th September 11am-4pm
Join us for a fun day out with workshops, activities, refreshments, things to buy. All welcome. We are asking everyone to make a minimum donation of £1 per person/ child or pay what you can to help raise funds for our new ‘Woodland for Wellbeing’ project.
Next year we will run our popular Chilli Festival but this year our urban harvest festival returns to celebrate everything we have grown and is a fundraiser for our wonderful charity project so please bring cash.
We have a limited amount of food and drink so do feel free to bring your own – but please take all your rubbish home with you. Sorry no dogs apart from assistance dogs.
Includes Unveiling of wild wonder wall, community art project at 12 A children’s nature trail around the Wilderness Apple pressing and juicing Creative/ art activities – leaf printing and make pom moms Make a hop wreath Visit our garden and learn about organic growing Refreshments – food and drink on sale Buy our wilderness jams, chutneys and preserves
If you would like to volunteer on the day please contact Maria wcw@rgtb.org.uk
Join us this summer for all things wild. We have events and activities for all ages including volunteering, forest school sessions, cooking, learning about nature, arts and crafts and fruit picking. Visit the whats on page (there are several pages) and book your places.
Join Anna for a fortnightly forest school for children aged 4-11 10am-3pm
Morning entry from 10- 11 only, afternoon entry from 1-2 only. Latecomers will not be admitted. All children should be accompanied by an adult with up to x5 children per adult.
This week we will be making things from world and sticks, plus exploring, tree climbing and other fun nature activities. If you come for the morning you are welcome to stay and bring a packed lunch.
All welcome, we are a charity and entry is free but if you can afford to give a small donation towards our work then cash donations welcome on the day.
Please bring a phone to ring for entry. Wear outdoor clothes and a good pair of trainers or boots. waterproofs in case it rains.
Book via the whats on page and select the number of children’s places.
As places are limited if you book and then can’t come please let us know well in advance by emailing wcw@rgtb.org.uk so that someone can book your space/s. Thanks.
Saturday 29th May 10am-2pm Entry every half an hour to allow for social distancing so at 10, 10.30, 11, 11.30, 12, 12.30, 1, 1.30 (1.30pm last entry). Please queue by the allotment gate and we will let people in every half an hour. Please make sure you have a bag to carry your plants home and some money preferably small change as we won’t be giving change back or you can pay by credit card. All our veg plants are grown using Garden Organic’s Organic Guidelines from seed and we use organic, peat free compost and recycled pots. We have herbs, tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers, pumpkins and squash, strawberries and fruit bushes, dye plants and a whole host more of things for your kitchen garden, window ledge or indoor pot. Prices between £2-4. Plus nettle fertiliser and free gardening advice from the growers. We will also be selling our homemade jams and chutneys using fruit and veg from the garden. All money will support our charity project and provide resources and educational equipment for the garden and site overall.
The outdoor classroom wall ready to be decorated as our Wild Wonder Wall
The Wild Wonder Wall – A Catford community art
project
Get creative and draw a picture for our Wild Wonder Wall at the Wild Cat Wilderness. It doesn’t matter what age you are we just want you to draw a something natural for the wall of our new outdoor classroom (and then you can even help paint it!)
The big picture This year we have built a fabulous classroom, which has a huge blank wall. We want you to draw a picture of something natural you might find outdoors at the Wild Cat Wilderness, our community green space in Catford. This could be
A bird or just a
feather
A bee or maybe a
fly or any other insect or minibeast
A tree or just a
leaf
A wild flower,
plant or even a mushroom
A fox, a mouse
or any other mammal
As long as it’s something living or growing we don’t mind as long as you might find it in Catford (we don’t have jungle animals!) We have drawn a rough background of trees from the Wild Cat Wilderness (see below) and now just need you to help us finish the Wild Wonder Wall with your pictures of one natural thing. We will choose a selection of the best ones and make them bigger.
What to do? Just draw your picture on an A4 piece of paper Your drawing can be just an outline in black and white or in colour and can be a drawing or painting or any medium you like. Just send it to us by post, email or put it on social media and tag us (details below) including your full name, age (if under 18) and contact details. By submitting picture you are giving us permission to use it. Closing date is the 27th June 2021 and you can submit as many pictures as you like. You will be informed if your picture is to be used at the beginning of July. During August we will be running a series of events so everyone can help decorate the wall using the winning pictures, plus you can add your name to the classroom as a winning picture. So pick up your pencil, pen, paints, crayons or charcoal and get creative for the Wild Wonder Wall. I wonder what you will draw?
Postal address Wild Cat Wilderness, Wild Wonder Wall, c/o The Rushey Green Timebank, Unit C, PLACE/Ladywell, 261 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham SE13 6AY
Social media Instagram @wild_cat_wilderness #WildWonderWall Twitter @WCWCatford #WildWonderWall Facebook @wildcatwilderness #WildWonderWall
Full details and terms and conditions can be found on our website www.wildcatwilderness.org under Useful Stuff
By the way you can also hire our classroom and outdoor space for meetings, team building and parties, anything outdoors. We ask a small donation from other charities and local organisations and hire rates are available for businesses and individuals. Full details from Maria just email wcw@rgtb.org.uk
I’m sorry to say that the Wilderness is currently only available to local schools for forest school and to regular volunteers. We aren’t running any events or activities during this period but hope to change this as and when restrictions are updated.
I’m sorry to say that we have had to pull out of this years event and our community natural dyeing sessions cancelled. We are hoping to make them available however online so watch this space. Please do support the wonderful local artists participating over the two weekends http://catfordarts.org/catford-arts-trail
Join a group of local people to help maintain and improve our wonderful community green space. No experience necessary and all adults welcome. Get involved [...]
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