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Our courses and workshops in green living, rural skills and bushcraft take place in our beautiful learning Centre in the Hampshire South Downs, near Petersfield. We are proud to host a range of excellent tutors, including renowned permaculture teachers: Aranya and Caroline Aitken; Forest School pioneer, Jon Cree; bushcraft and nature connection leaders: Jonathon Huet and Nick Ward; herb and foraging experts and a host of highly skilled craft teachers.
As well as our Course Listings below, we also offer private bespoke courses for your organisation. Please contact us on courses@sustainability-centre.org for more information.
As well as our Course Listings below, we also offer private bespoke courses for your organisation. Please contact us on courses@sustainability-centre.org for more information.
2022
january
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Fabric Baskets -
SOLD OUT £95 Saturday 29th January 2022 |
Upcycle pre-loved clothing or favourite fabrics to make beautiful coiled fabric baskets. A great way to keep some of your children’s favourite outfits they’ve outgrown or your partner’s favourite old shirts and turn the materials into a decorative basket of memories for your home.
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February
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Hedgelaying Course - SOLD OUT
£80 Friday 4th February 2022 |
On this training course you will gain practical, hands on experience in the ancient art of hedgelaying (South of England style). A local hedge will be laid using traditional tools i.e. billhook, broad axe and hand saws. The stock proof barrier created will then be trimmed by hand and secured with stakes and top binding. You will also learn about the history of hedgerows in our landscape and their habitat importance.
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Natural Cosmetics - SOLD OUT
£75 for one day £135 for both days Saturday 11th February 2022 &/or Sunday 12th February 2022 |
Come and learn how to make natural everyday beauty/bathroom products from ingredients you can find in your kitchen cupboards, herb gardens and amongst the hedgerows. We will be making a variety of products including balms, oils, hair conditioner and toothpaste. Products that are kind to you, the earth, reduce single-use plastic and will save you pennies. Perfect to make for yourself or to give as gifts.
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Willow Living Tree - SOLD OUT
£45 Friday 25th February 2022 |
Join us in learning how to weave your very own living willow Harlequin tree from locally grown willow. Living willow rods plaited into what is known as a Harlequin tree make a wonderful addition to your garden. You will to take away your tree with the knowledge of how to nurture and care for it through the seasons to come.
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Willow Lampshade - SOLD OUT
£45 Friday 25th February 2022 |
Learn how to weave a lampshade from sustainable willow on this half-day course. With a rising awareness of sustainable natural materials and handcrafted techniques willow lampshades make a wonderful choice for your home. On this course you will learn how to weave a drum shaped lampshade onto a 25cm metal hoop for a standard light fixing with an LED bulb.
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March
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Willow Weaving Weekend
SOLD OUT £160 Saturday 5th - Sunday 6th March 2022 |
Spend a weekend engrossed in developing your skills in willow weaving and basketry. On this progressive course, you will weave a number of willow items which will give you the chance to practice basket making techniques before making your own basket.
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Kitchen Gardening Weekends
£260 Two weekends: Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th March and Saturday 11th - Sunday 12th June 2022 |
A four day course, split over two weekends, on creating and managing a successful and abundant food garden. The course will include hands-on practical sessions and all the theory you need to make your kitchen garden grow and keep your larder full. From crop planning to soil care, pest control to storing produce, this course will show you environmentally friendly and sustainable approaches to growing your own food.
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Forest School Taster Day
£55 Friday 25th March 2022 |
An experience day for teachers and parents to give a taste of the Forest School approach to learning in our beautiful woodland site. Have a go at fire lighting, den building, tool use, plus other woodland crafts and activities. Find out how Forest School supports children and adults of all abilities to learn in the outdoors.
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APRIL
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Medicinal Herbs
SOLD OUT £75 Saturday 2nd April 2022 |
Learn how to use plants and herbal remedies to improve your health and wellbeing on this highly practical one day course. Spend a day with professional herbalist, Sarah Hillyer, learning how to identify and use medicinal herbs growing in our gardens and the wider countryside to detoxify and revitalise the body.
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Spoon Carving
SOLD OUT £70 Tuesday 12th April 2022 |
Learn how to carve a spoon, spatula and butter knife on this wood carving course in the Hampshire South Downs. Our tutor, Jonathan Huet, will teach you how to use a knife, saw, crook knife and axe to whittle items from locally harvested green wood.
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Pendant Carving
£75 Thursday 21st April or Friday 22nd April 2022 |
Learn how to carve your own beautiful wooden pendant with simple knife techniques on this one day course. Create your own unique piece of wearable wood art with nothing more than a knife and a little imagination. An infinitely portable and transferable skill set (and toolkit) that will give you the freedom to carve creatively, whether at home or out in the wilderness.
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Willow Obelisks
SOLD OUT £40 Saturday 30th April 2022 |
Willow weaving training course in the Hampshire South Downs. Experience the delights of creating a support for climbing plants like sweet peas or green beans. Come with enough space to transport your work home and plant up your creation into a pot or straight into the ground.
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May
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Mental Health First Aid
£225 Tuesday 3rd & Wednesday 4th May 2022 |
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course which teaches people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. MHFA won’t teach you to be a therapist, but just like physical first aid, it will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis. This two day course qualifies you as a Mental Health First Aider.
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Foraging, Fire and Folklore - SOLD OUT
£25 Wednesday 4th May 2022 |
A series of seasonal events, each one a special evening experience of wild food foraging, Celtic fire and folklore. Bushcraft and Celtic folklore specialist, Jonathon Huet, will take you on a guided walk to forage for wild food and impart his knowledge on different native trees in each season.
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June
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Nature led Meditation 1
£25 Wednesday 1st June 2022 |
A progressive series of nature-led meditation workshops, each with an individual flavour. Jonathon Huet will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your connection with nature and to bring healing to yourself and to the land to which we belong.
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Stool Carving
SOLD OUT £110 Friday 3rd June 2022 |
Learn green woodwork techniques and make your own rustic stool on this training course in the Hampshire South Downs. Our tutor, Phil Clayton, will teach you how to use traditional hand tools and woodcraft skills, to craft your stool from locally grown wood.
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Foraging, Fire and Folklore
£25 Thursday 9th June 2022 |
A series of seasonal events, each one a special evening experience of wild food foraging, Celtic fire and folklore. Bushcraft and Celtic folklore specialist, Jonathon Huet, will take you on a guided walk to forage for wild food and impart his knowledge on different native trees in each season.
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Medicinal Herbs
£75 Sunday 26th June 2022 |
Learn how to use plants and herbal remedies to improve your health and wellbeing on this highly practical one day course. Spend a day with professional herbalist, Sarah Hillyer, learning how to identify and use medicinal herbs growing in our gardens and the wider countryside to detoxify and revitalise the body.
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July
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Nature led Meditation 2
£25 Wednesday 6th July 2022 |
A progressive series of nature-led meditation workshops, each with an individual flavour. Jonathon Huet will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your connection with nature and to bring healing to yourself and to the land to which we belong.
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Advanced Knife Skills
£80 Saturday 16th July 2022 |
This knife skills training course in the Hampshire South Downs will explore how to use a fixed blade knife as a wood craft tool and how to realise both its potential and limitations. Starting at the very basics of knife anatomy we will discuss what makes a suitable knife for woodworking, whittling, Forest School or bushcraft.
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Foraging, Fire and Folklore
£25 Wednesday 20th July 2022 |
A series of seasonal events, each one a special evening experience of wild food foraging, Celtic fire and folklore. Bushcraft and Celtic folklore specialist, Jonathon Huet, will take you on a guided walk to forage for wild food and impart his knowledge on different native trees in each season.
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Wildflower Meadows
£75 Sunday 24th July 2022 |
This wildflower meadow course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to create, restore and enhance meadows, with a particular focus on chalk grassland. Whether you want to establish a mini meadow in your back garden or on a large scale, this course is for you.
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August
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Woodland Management
£80 Saturday 6th August 2022 |
A one day Woodland Management course for those working and educating in the forest. From woodland ecology and basic site surveying, to trees, woodlands, wildlife and the law, this course will give outdoor educators a sound knowledge of their environment and how to maximise its potential, whilst maintaining a minimal impact approach.
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September
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Wooden Gate Hurdle Making - SOLD OUT
£110 Friday 2nd September 2022 |
Learn traditional wood carving techniques to make your own sweet chestnut gate hurdle on this one day course in the Hampshire South Downs. Using a shavehorse and other traditional hand tools including drawknife, twybil, brace, side axe and hammer, you will learn to create your own hurdles, which you will take home with you. Your hurdles can be used as a gate opening, part of a fence or simply to add decoration and structure to your garden.
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Art, Sound and Meditation
£80 Saturday 3rd September 2022 |
An art and meditation workshop focused on the healing properties of sounds and pattern and the restorative qualities of the natural world. Spend a day focusing on your own wellbeing. We will explore the way experiencing sound and nature can spark our creative responses.
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Nature led Meditation 3
£25 Wednesday 7th September 2022 |
A progressive series of nature-led meditation workshops, each with an individual flavour. Jonathon Huet will guide you gently through meditations and natural connection practices designed to restore your connection with nature and to bring healing to yourself and to the land to which we belong.
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Introduction to Permaculture Design
£75 deposit to reserve a place, £245 due in mid-August 2022 £320 Thursday 29th September - Sunday 2nd October 2022 |
This course is designed to introduce Permaculture principles but with an emphasis on supporting participants with designing their own homes and gardens. It is no ordinary 'Permaculture intro' course, and not quite a full Permaculture Design course either. Rather, through the course, Aranya will cover the key principles of Permaculture design theory and how we can apply them in redesigning our homes and gardens to be both more sustainable and abundant.
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October
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Natural Cleaning Workshop - SOLD OUT
£75 Saturday 29th October 2022 |
This workshop will teach you how to make a variety of tried and tested recipes to enable you to start making your own natural cleaning products from simple ingredients that can be found in your cupboards or easily and cheaply bought. This workshop is hands-on, so you will have a whole variety of products to take home with you along with detailed handouts. Kinder to you, the earth these products will save you pennies and are quick and easy to make.
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november
december
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Willow Garden Sculpture
£85 Friday 2nd December 2022. |
Learn how to willow weave a sculpture for your garden on this craft course in the Hampshire South Downs. Choose what you would like to weave from a small animal to an abstract form. Previous participants have made: dragonflies, hearts, cats, dogs, chickens, pheasants, obelisks and garden decorations - the choice is yours! This course will take place indoors.
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Donations |
Charity Number 1079866 |
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Earthworks Trust & Earthworks FoundationThe Sustainability Centre is owned and operated by The Earthworks Trust (Charity No.1079866). Our trading company is Earthworks Foundation. All profits go to support our charity The Earthworks Trust. |
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