Our projects are borne out of our longstanding mission to help others.
We work alongside key local organisations and residents to improve green spaces and develop initiatives that explore wellbeing, heritage and ecology conservation.
Corporate Volunteering Opportunities
Perhaps you’re a team of six, or maybe you’re a department of 20. Either way, we’d love to work with you and your team or organisation to nurture and maintain areas of our woodlands – a vital wellbeing asset for many local people.
Please contact our Community Engagement Lead Martha for more information.
Community Volunteering Drop-in
On Thursday mornings, our community volunteers meet at Slades Park Pavilion at 10am, before heading out into the woodland for a range of ecology conservation activities until 12pm.
If you’d like to take part, please drop in, or contact our Community Engagement Lead Martha for more information.
Events & Activities
Our events focus on community, nature connection and wellbeing, with programmes released periodically throughout the year.
You can read more about our upcoming events below.
Projects & Initiatives
As a local landowner and charity, we’re proud to support events with partners that benefit wildlife and local people.
Talbot Voices is our community-focused History and Heritage Project, in collaboration with partners Bournemouth University and Dorset History Centre. Read more here.
Upcoming Events
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Over the weeks, from late winter to early summer, you will be guided towards experiencing nature through the traditional 5 senses – sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing. By the end of the course you will be familiarised with forest bathing – a practice rooted in Japan called Shinrin-yoku, which literally translates as ‘forest bathing’ or ‘taking in the atmosphere of the forest’.
We now know that when we actively connect with the natural world, something magical happens to us, which is beyond the health benefits of going for a walk.
By relating through our senses (sight, hearing, touch, and smell), we drop our habit of endless thinking, and sink into a light restful state of mind. We become absorbed, calm and relaxed. We feel present and more alive.
Research is showing that this way of being is highly beneficial for our health and wellbeing, and even a few minutes is known to have lasting benefits.
Each session we’ll meet at the Slades Park Pavilion cafe, before heading into the neighbouring woodland for an hour of relaxing and rejuvenating nature connection. Please dress appropriately for the weather on the day. Refreshments are separately available from the cafe if you wish to purchase them. Toilets are available in the cafe to all park visitors.
Wed 15th May Wed 22 May
Wed 5th June
Wed 12th June
Wed 19th June
