Coed Lleol Small Woods Wrexham

Free online nature courses - AUTUMN 2023

https://www.smallwoods.org.uk/en/training-and-events/online-courses/

Cyrsiau natur di-dâl ar lein - HYDREF 2023

https://www.smallwoods.org.uk/cy/training-and-events/cyrsiau-ar-lein/

🌳It was a beautiful sunny day for our Woodland Craft and Wellbeing Session at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden this morning.

☀ The gardens and woodland area looked fantastic in the summer sunshine.

🌿Today we had a go at creating a plant hanger using Macrame thanks to Daisy and Kate.

♥ This was the last group session organised by Coed Lleol in Wrexham this summer. Thanks so much to everyone who has helped with the group, especially our wonderful volunteer Gemma who has supported us throughout. A big thank you to Liz and Ellen who kindly shared their craft skills with us all over the last few sessions, it was much appreciated.

🌈 New skills have been learnt and shared. Wonderful friendships have been made and nurtured through creating and spending time outdoors in nature.

🌳We had another lovely Woodland Craft and Wellbeing session at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden this week.

Thanks to Ellen who shared her ideas to help us all get creative with pebbles.

Our next session will be on Friday 11th August and we will be having a summer celebration - everyone is welcome to join us. Please get in touch if you would like to celebrate with us. [email protected] 🌳

🌳Hello Woodland folks🌳

Be a part of our Big Camp Build and help us transform our site with a brand new parachute shelter, firewood store, seating, fire pit, willow fencing and more. This is all happening at Park in the Past where we host our wellbeing sessions with Coed Lleol.

Anyone is welcome to come and join us and get stuck into the tasks. No experience required, all tools provided and you will be plied with tea/coffee and biscuits. Yum!

If you are interested in coming along, give James a ring on 07876 7954098 to find out more. Or you can email [email protected]

Volunteers are welcome between 10am - 5pm on Monday 31st July to Friday 4th August. Come for a full day or just for a couple of hours.

It's going to be an exciting week of transformation and it would be great to see some of our followers involved.

Thanks to Welsh Government and Coed Lleol for funding the materials required for the big camp build. Woodland Classroom

🌻The wonderful Erlas Victorian Walled Garden in Wrexham is going to be offering an Introduction to Gardening course to begin on 14th August from 9.30-12.30 and it will run for 10 weeks.

🌼The course is fully funded and therefore free to attend.

🌱If you are interested in joining or finding out more please contact:

[email protected] or phone 01978 265058.

🌳Our Woodland Craft and Wellbeing Group at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden was quite special this week. Today we learnt all about stained glass and we designed some beautiful suncatchers using reclaimed glass and pressed flowers. 🌷

♥ Thanks so much to Liz for sharing your amazing skills and expertise with us. Your kindness is appreciated by us all. There was lots of creativity, tea and laughter in the most beautiful space. 😀

🌳This week we had the fantastic opportunity to share with trainee GPs some of the benefits of attending our Woodland Wellbeing groups. They were also invited to experience some of our activities and to think about how spending time outdoors not only benefits their patients, but as our much valued health professionals it can support their wellbeing too. 🌳

🌳🌺🌦 There is lots of evidence to suggest that humans respond in a positive way when looking at patterns in the natural world. At Erlas Victorian Walled Garden at our Woodland Craft and wellbeing group we discovered lots of patterns and we photographed them. Thanks so much to everyone who sent their photos to share. We hope you enjoy looking at the beauty of nature. ☘🌼🌳

🌳 At the Woodland Craft and Wellbeing session today at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden we took a close look at the beautiful book 'The Lost Words' by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane. They used words in nature that were beginning to vanish and brought them back to life through poems and illustrations. We looked around the site for words relating to the natural world that we could also use in a creative way. 🌳

🌼 Do you love craft activities related to nature and the outdoors? Erlas Victorian Walled Garden in Wrexham is starting a monthly craft group to make items related to the garden. It is the first meeting next week on Thursday June 22nd from 10am-1pm. Everyone is welcome to attend. 🌺

🌳 We have been experimenting with willow today with our Woodland Craft and Wellbeing group at the beautiful Erlas Victorian Walled Garden.🌞

🌻 This morning's Woodland Craft and Wellbeing Session was all about nature and textiles at the beautiful Erlas Victorian Walled Garden in Wrexham.

🌞 We foraged in the sunshine for different flowers and leaves we could use in our prints and then we got very noisy hammering!

🌸We all had a go at Hapazome and created beautiful prints. Some of the group also embellished their prints with embroidery.

😀It was lovely to spend time together creating - and of course there was lots of tea, biscuits and laughter!

🌳If you would like to join us please send an email to: [email protected]. Our next session is on Friday 16th June from 10-12.30 and we will be willow weaving.

🌳🎨 Our group today at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden was all about using nature in mark making and sketching. We created some beautiful works of art and really enjoyed each other's company. Thank you so much John for sharing your skills with us at the session today. The next group will be on Friday 2nd June and we will be exploring nature and textiles. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to join us. 🖌🌳

🌳Today was the final session of our 6 week programme at Park in The Past. Thank you so much to James from the Woodland Classroom for leading us all over the last few weeks.

🦋As usual, we began our session finding a sit spot and becoming more aware of nature all around us. We completed a bioblitz, recording species of wildflowers, trees, birds, butterflies and insects found at the site.

🔥 We also enjoyed spending time together around the campfire. Mike shared with us all the beautiful vase he had created from a piece of oak, John shared some seeds and Julia had kindly made us all some runes from hazel collected last week.

🌳It has been so special to share this time together outdoors, connecting with nature and enjoying each other's company. 💚

🌳💚Thank you Anne for sending us this beautiful poem to share with everyone. 💚🌳

Tread carefully as you walk
Care as you tread
Our planet is finite.

Mother Earth
Revered, delicate
A treasure

A lifetime is not long
To wake, to feel
This Earth

🍄 We all got creative today at Park in The Past with James Kendall from the Woodland Classroom. We did some whittling with hazel, learning different cuts and using them to make mushrooms. It was a great way to spend time together outdoors. 🍄

🌳 Thank you everyone who attended our Woodland Wellbeing session today at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden. It is great to notice the changes at this beautiful site as we move through Spring. We followed the woodland trail and foraged for materials we could use to create a wild weaving wall hanging. If you would like to join our group at Erlas please email: [email protected].🌳

🌳Another lovely Woodland Wellbeing group at Park in The Past with James from the Woodland Classroom. We spent some time noticing everything around us and connecting with nature. We helped to create a new circle, further into the woodland to provide another space for people to use during sessions at the site. We prepared and cooked bread in three different ways on the campfires and enjoyed sharing it together. 🌳

🌳🌼This Friday 28th April, it is our monthly Woodland Wellbeing session at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden in Wrexham. The group is from 10-12 and it is free to attend. We are a friendly welcoming group and this month we are getting crafty with some wild weaving. If you would like to join us please email: [email protected]. 🌺🌲

🌳🌞 It was a beautiful sunny day for our third Woodland Wellbeing group session at Park in The Past. We started the session by spending some time on our own, noticing nature all around us and just taking some time out for ourselves. James from the Woodland Classroom then taught us all how to make and maintain a fire outdoors using natural materials we find around us in the woods. We then made ourselves a welcome cuppa to finish off the morning. 🌻🌲

🌳 We have got off to a great start with our new Woodland Wellbeing group at Park in The Past. We have met new people, spent time together outdoors and learnt new skills. Thank you so much to our brilliant leader James from Woodland Classroom. 🌲

This beautiful poem was sent to us by Anne after attending our Wellbeing in Nature Day at Erlas Victorian Walled Garden. Thank you Anne for sharing it with us all.

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Seated upon an old wooden bench
green lichen hanging from its arms
Surrounded by lawns and green foliage
The silver birch bears no leaves
Their beautiful white bark is forever peeling
The daffodils beneath glow
in golden clusters
With the deep purple viola
And white mauve hellebores
Drooping large speckled petalled heads
In the shade of a flowerbed
Seemingly grown wild
Amongst snowdrops and russet foliage
Seed heads puff themselves wildly
Upon the grass
With the wafting of a gentle breeze
Grass plants stick their heads up above the leaves
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