Ready Steady Grow

Ready... steady... Grow...

We offer range of services, activities and learning opportunities that help people’s well-being over their whole lives.

Our 55 acre site in the South Downs National Park offers a unique learning context where we model practical solutions to a range of environmental problems and do so within an authentic sustainable living framework for people, places and planet.

We know that our programmes work because they have been developed, tried and refined over 20 years.

Now we are planning a real growth spurt to launch a new era, reach more people; expand our influence and take our message and solutions to a wider audience.

Our Ready, Steady, Grow Initiative will:-

Expand our services, activities and learning opportunities across all the different age ranges 5 - 95!
Create outreach programmes, tools and training modules
Develop health and well-being programmes
Share our skills and experience of creating a sustainable business model for charities and businesses
Develop new partnerships with businesses supporting CSR and sustainable growth
Influence and shape wider agendas and deeper engagement
Seed and support change-makers and support skills that enable organisational change.

A key component of realising this ambition is to undertake a re-imagining and re-purposing of our own built infrastructure. We plan to create a New Learning Centre to house:-

A dedicated education suite with additional classrooms
Exhibtion and interpretation space
Community facilities and meeting spaces
A rural enterprise hub with office and meeting space for local small and start-up businesses
Space for business to business exchange and courses