Our team of compassionate Forest School practitioners enable others to develop as confident, creative and resilient people.

I was about seven years old when my parents took me into the garden and gave me a hollowed out tree stump to turn into a garden. I filled it with soil and tiny plants I had rescued from cracks in the pavement outside our house. It was around 1985 and not long after that I began to look up and noticed the trees. An imaginary world grew that I was both part of and separate from. I was visited by fairies when I slept, listened to the trees talking when I was skipping and I imagined tiny villages full of little houses high up in the branches I couldn’t reach.

Fast forward to adulthood with a career spent enabling people to be their fullest in Further Education and the Civil Service working with groups, small and large, and individuals and I recognise a pattern emerging: people feel at their best when they have an opportunity to do something they love.

My work focuses on enabling people of all ages and abilities to be the best they can be by providing immersive experiences in the natural world.

I combine professional qualifications in coaching and mentoring with Forest Schools Education to connect people to their immediate natural environment, learn new skills (or revisit those long forgotten) and discover their best.

I have been Childminding for over 10 years in our local area and one of my favourite and most rewarding things to do with the children is to introduce them to our natural environment. 

We spend a huge amount of time outdoors and Forest School gives both me and the children the opportunity to learn and connect with nature in the most exciting ways.