Deep winter is a time for us all to rest and reflect; a season for 'hibernation', gathering energy and planning.
So bear with us as we shut our services down from the 17th of December (except for the Christmas day tree planting) until the end of January 2022
Deep winter is a time for us all to rest and reflect; a season for 'hibernation', gathering energy and planning.
So bear with us as we shut our services down from the 17th of December (except for the Christmas day tree planting) until the end of January 2022
Meet us at the Shared Earth polytunnel at Vallis Veg at midday to join in, we usually finish around 3pm
The work is varied, and it's great exercise in a beautiful landscape. If you enjoy digging, weeding mulching, or could help with the construction of our outdoor kitchen, and would like to volunteer with our friendly co-operative in a beautiful setting, please get in touch or just pop by.
BRING YOUR OWN REFRESHMENTS
6th Nov- supporting Edventure project, mulching&construction of our outdoor kitchen
13th November - TREE-PLANTING
20th Nov -supporting Edventure project, mulching&construction of our outdoor kitchen
27th Nov - TREE-PLANTING PLUS supporting Edventure project practically.
11th Dec - TREE-PLANTING
Christmas Day - TREE-PLANTING We'll provide the mince pies, please RSVP this one
Contact us: SharedEarthLearning@gmail.com if you would like to find out more or be added to our volunteer mailing list
Outdoors this OCTOBER 2021
Forest School at Vallis Veg, Thursday 28th FULLY BOOKED
A day outside, exploring, playing, foraging, cooking and creating. For up to 12 children aged 5yrs +
10.00am til 3.30pm
£30
SUBSIDISED SPACES AVAILABLE (please ask when booking)
Tuesday 26th October FULLY BOOKED
SCC (‘CIAT’) funded; forest school style outdoor
activities for up to 6 young people with any additional need.
5yrs +
10.00am - 2.30pm
£10
And for the grown-ups: WE STILL NEED YOU
Volunteer days every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. midday until 3pm
Please join us as we garden and maintain our outdoor learning space. Tree-planting starts in November. We need you!
Job Opportunity! APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Shared Earth Learning is recruiting for permanent, part-time Administrative Support
Shared Earth Learning Forest School is looking for a new team member to support our administration and management on a permanent, part time basis. The ideal candidate can help us manage bookings, funding applications and invoicing, as well as assist with planning, reporting and financial administration. We need someone local to Frome, who is available to work from home for 8 - 12 hours each month, preferably weekly, and can help us manage our emails and organise forest school and community activities.
Shared Earth Learning Forest School is a charitable community benefit society, run as a co-operative, and our objectives - in a nutshell - are to nurture a love of nature in all people. (More about us and our objectives can be found on our website: https://sharedearthlearning.blogspot.com/p/who-we-are.html)
Our team has grown and we seek someone with aptitude and skills to help us manage our administration as we expand the services we offer. We are currently working with a ‘virtual assistant’ and hope to find someone locally based who can join us on a long term basis.
Requirements:
An organised and experienced administrative professional.
Financially literate - can help us produce and process invoices and work with spreadsheets.
Good communicator - able to respond to queries and manage bookings
Discreet and sensitive, aware of safeguarding and child protection
Available for up to 3 hours per week, ideally in two or three sessions to answer emails
Personal profile
Lives locally to Frome
Able to work from home
Flexible
Appreciates the values of Shared Earth Learning
Unflappable and much better organised than we are
Salary range: £14-17/hr
Contact SharedEarthLearning@gmail.com by 31 August 2021 with your CV to apply.
Find out more about us on our blog:
https://sharedearthlearning.blogspot.com/
We've teamed up with EDVENTURE Frome! They will be working for us throughout Autumn; very exciting. Please pass the word far and wide as we need some groovy Young People to get this project moving!
Apply now for Edventure Start-Up
course runs: Mon 13 Sep - Fri 3 Dec 2021
This challenge is an opportunity to experience both the tools needed to start-up a viable social enterprise, and the permaculate design process – designing intelligent systems which meet human needs whilst enhancing biodiversity, reducing our impact on the planet, and creating a fairer world for us all.
You will work in partnership with Shared Earth Learning (SELCo) whose mission is to grow people’s wellbeing outdoors. SELCo offer forest school sessions to more disadvantaged members of our community. They find that their members reach a crunch point at 16 years old when they are expected to get a job, go into training, or step into further education but often lack the necessary qualifications, skills & support.
This Edventure student team will create a real social enterprise that is a safe working/learning space for those 16-18yr olds to grow, market and sell edible produce using permaculture methods. It will involve setting up a permaculture space – polytunnel, irrigation, compost loo? And designing a business model whereby those 16-18-year-olds can go on to earn a viable income on the land.
Frome Town Rotary have pledged £1000 to support the work of Shared Earth Learning.
HUGE THANKS TO YOU ALL FROM US ALL!
&
We're delighted to announce FTC has granted Shared Earth Learning £3000 from their Community Grant towards our Wellbeing projects for adults.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
We will announce more about these projects at a later date, but wanted to say thanks to all concerned and that we really do appreciate your support.
Shared Earth Learning aims to nurture a love of nature, encouraging our community to respect and protect our natural spaces, to make our services accessible and affordable and to improve community cohesion by working across generations and integrating people from different backgrounds in our programmes.
Our activities are funded by grants and donations.
If you can spare a gift or monthly donation, please contribute to our fundraiser
https://localgiving.org/charity/shared-earth-learning/
Shared Earth Learning offers forest school, horticulture and outdoor wellbeing groups, in Frome, Somerset, prioritising the needs of more disadvantaged members of our community. Our work is funded by grants and we are supported by volunteers. We work to co-operative principles and are in the process of converting from a limited company into a Community Benefit Society.
Find out more about us on our blog:
https://sharedearthlearning.blogspot.com/p/who-we-are.html
Volunteers are very welcome to join us to help us develop and improve the Shared Earth Learning Forest School space. We're working on projects at the allotment, improving the pathways and replanting part of the Mendip Way hedgerow.
Meet us at the Shared Earth polytunnel at Vallis Veg, at midday, to join in.
The work is varied, and it's great exercise in a beautiful landscape. If you enjoy digging, weeding and mulching, or could help with making our outdoor kitchen, and would like to volunteer with our friendly co-operative in a beautiful setting, please get in touch or just pop by.
We meet on the second and forth Saturday of the month at the Shared Earth Learning site at Vallis Veg near Frome.
26th June
10th July
24th July
14th August
28th August
Contact us: SharedEarthLearning@gmail.com
.....and if so, do you have Forest school training or practical working knowledge of horticulture in the UK?
If so GET IN TOUCH as there is work available with our co-operative for the right pro-active person.
Please send your CV along with a covering letter with details of your experience, passions and how you meet our requirements to sharedearthlearning@gmail.com
This half-term holiday we are sorry to say we are only running one session and that is for children with additional needs. We'll be back in the summer with a full programme including a camp out.
Watch this space and don't forget to play outside whenever you can.
1st June: limited spaces: Forest school style sessions for children' with additional needs. Funded by SCC. 10.00 - 2.30pm £10 email: sharedearthbookings@gmail.com to book or for more details
We are running Forest school sessions in the Easter Holidays - hooray!
Wednesdays: 7th & 14th, Tuesday: 13th April and Thursday 8th April All fully booked!
Groups will be of up to 12 children aged between 5 and 14 years old and sessions will be run by 2 Forest school leaders.
10am until 3.30pm £30 per child per day with a discount of £5 per sibling.
To book please fill in the consent form here:
If you have any queries email: sharedearthbookings@
or phone: 07935068254
Everyone booked on will be asked to comply with our Covid 19 exposure agreement.
Sessions must be paid for in advance. You can expect to receive an invoice within 3 working days of completing the booking form, though please bear with us, as you probably already know, our office is run by experts in outdoor learning ,not admin!
and slowly but surely the 3 lines of buried barbed wire are painstakingly drawn from the soil.
