Come and join us at Lesnes Abbey Woods Forest Club.
Support Creative Nature through a variety of volunteering opportunities. 

The Forest Club is a volunteer-led group finding ways to collectively be in the woodland throughout the year, learning and sharing skills to support woodland management and biodiversity. 

Since 2019, we have been getting together every Thursday, 10am - 2pm, at “The Clearing”, to learn rural crafts, work together for the benefit of nature and enjoy the simple pleasure of working outside together. Feel the joy of sharing a hot drink from the kettle on an open fire - simple pleasures.

There are also volunteer opportunities to support our workshop programme and events on weekends and some evenings. 

If you take part, you will become familiar with sawing, cutting and splitting wood, using knives and axes and mastering the use of shave horses, spoon mules and pole lathes. Support the natural dye garden, learn to weave, cast metal, make furniture… the possibilities are endless, but we need the gift of your time.

Our aim is to create a core group of volunteers to learn the foundational skills of green wood working and develop a range of ancient rural craft skills that complement and support a healthy woodland environment.

We also encourage volunteers to bring their own skills, providing facilitation opportunities for those that are interested. 

The Forest Club also has a Steering Committee, helping to develop the direction of the project and process funding opportunities. If you have any skills that you could bring to this, to help co-curate this project, we would love to hear from you. 

You can follow us on Instagram @lesnesabbeyforestclub - for all updates, including rare cancellations of these Thursday sessions - and our Creative Nature Instagram @ourcreativenature. We also have a Whatsapp group you can join once you have signed up or attended a volunteer session.