Health and Wellbeing — Naturally Useful

The Willow Field Project

Weaving wellness. Creating unity. Rooted in community

Thanks to the generous support from local funders, we’re delighted to have spent the last 2 years expanding our health and wellbeing work on the willow field with tailored groups and volunteering opportunities, creating an inclusive space where people can connect and create with each other and nature through growing and crafting.
Our willow field project holds the CHIME framework in head, heart and hands. CHIME is an acronym supporting mental health and wellbeing, standing for connection, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment. We hope to provide a space where these qualities can flourish and people feel seen, accepted and appreciated for who they are, in all their diversity.
On Tuesdays, The Green Team get together, a gardening and crafting group for adults with learning disabilities, autism and additional support needs.
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New hands weaving old ways, new roots shaping wholesome days.

Emily, Health and Wellbeing Development Coordinator

Making a willow fence

Willow harvest 2023 - get in touch to join us for the next harvest beginning 3rd January 2024

weeding the dye garden, November 2023

November volunteering

Preparing for the willow harvest

Skirting fleece, November volunteering day

Getting ready for the willow harvest, November volunteers

November's volunteers working in the dye garden

Volunteering at Willow Harvest 2024

Harvesting willow 2024

Volunteering at Naturally Useful January 2024

Volunteers learning about willow

Amy and Sue with black buffalo gold from Thorabella farm to help things grow

Amy, Sue and Emily having fun shovelling in the rain!

Thursday volunteer crafting session making bird feeders

Amy teaching volunteers how to weave bird feeders

Our volunteer releases the worms into their new home!

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Would you like to support us in creating a nourishing, inclusive health and wellbeing project on our willow field? Any help you can offer will go towards projects to enable students from all walks of life to take part in gardening, willow and wool crafts workshops here with us in the future.

Many heartfelt thanks go to all those who donated in our last Crowdfunder campaign and to Ekopia and the Pebble Trust for all their support, enabling us to develop the field this far. We have already achieved so much with your help. Buying the willow field, putting in water, septic tank, power and building the ‘Hub’ with toilets and showers, kitchen and dining facilities. The Hub will be appreciated by future participants of the Health and Wellbeing project, volunteers and students who will stay in the shepherd huts.

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