Welcome to Elders Well-being in the woods 2025
Now we are 6!
Our SIXTH year of this successful venture, this with continued sponsored by Post Code Lottery (in the past Heritage Lottery and Pargiter Trust)
If you’d like to join us – welcome. We meet every Thursday from 12 noon for light lunch cooked over the fire, to work or play from 1 to 3 pm. Please email to book or for more information. (rachelkellett@gmail.com)
Address : Kaliwood, Beccles Road, Holton, IP19 8NQ. If you need transport to get to us, let us know we may be able to help.
Funded by
The Post Code Lottery
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Thanks to National Lottery Players
Winter 2025
Sept 18 Squash with Marion
Sept 25 Squash in orange
Oct 2 Galls and Poems
Oct 9 Printing botanicals
Oct 16 Botanicals and seed sowing
Oct 23
Oct 30 Samhain
Nov 6 HALF TERM
Nov 13 Fossils with Howard Mottram
Nov 20 Hybrid Elders
Nov 27 Tannins, Eco
Dec 4 Stalwart Eco printing
Dec 11
SPRING 2025
This spring we were scientists, surveying, recording, measuring, witnessing the land evolve as a newly planted woodland, agroforestry, community and forest garden. Along with other projects and play.
March 13 – the scientists
March 27 – Spawn, land and bridge
April 3 – Elders 4 Frog-spawn, Fossils, Friendship and not much sap
April 10 – Elders 5 Frogs, trees and eggs
April 17 EASTER
May 1
May 8 Mandala hapazone continued with a few mating dragonflies
May 22 – Hapazone Sheet
May 29 HALF TERM
June 5 – Rain, grass naming of plants
June 12 – Grasses, frogs, a wren and mining bees
June 26 – Grasses monoprints beaks and geese
July 3 – Survey results, gratitude
END OF TERM
Get in touch
rachelkellett@gmail.com
Past 2021-25
We started with an 8 week prototype which was so successful we have not stopped since. Working with the support of the Pear Tree Fun, mixing elders with children from other tribes, we’ve had a blast. Here is some of our story.
Elders Weaving the woods 1 2021
Elders Wellbeing in the woods 1 2022
It’s a Wrap – summer 2022
2003 Elders wellbeing in the woods
2024 Spring Summer Winter (wild clay with Tamlin, Samhain)
Kinda Elders in the woods 