Experiences
We offer a unique programme of experiences for all ages, designed to connect people to themselves, each other and the natural world around them. This includes heritage craft courses such as woodworking, leatherwork and printmaking, as well as foraging, storytelling and bushcraft skills.
Our experiences are held at Wrongs Covert, a beautiful ancient woodland site in Norfolk, just 12 miles NW of Norwich, between Lenwade and Lyng.
Heritage Crafts
A unique programme of adult courses at Wrongs Covert, exploring ancient crafts and creative practices.
Heritage craft involves skilled techniques using traditional materials, handed down through generations, and is vital for connecting us to our past and keeping these traditions alive. We try to use sustainable materials that can be found in the woodland, connecting us back to the land around us.
Upcoming Courses
Late summer/autumn programme coming soon...
For Children and Young People
We believe in the power of nature to connect young people and their families to the world around them, and to each other. With the right skills and knowhow, getting out in nature can become your whole family’s best time together, woven in to your life forever.
With our family activities you can explore skills like fire cooking, shelter building and tool work, and meet like-minded and like-hearted families, children and young people to share your adventure with.
Upcoming Events
Writing History for Young People at Wrongs Covert
Thursday 6th August, 10am-3pm
Wrongs Covert, nr Lenwade/Lyng
Calling all nature lovers, budding historians and writers. Join art historian, poetry writer and forest school leader Roxanne Matthews for a day in the woods unearthing stories from the land and turning them into prose.
£25 per place
For ages 9-14
Summer Holiday Forest Adventures: Tool Work Day
Monday 17th August, 10am-2pm
Wrongs Covert, nr Lenwade/Lyng
Join us this summer for four days of woodland magic, wild skills, and outdoor fun! Each day will introduce a brand-new, hands-on masterclass led by our experienced woodland leaders.
Monday's activity will be Tool Work Day, where kids can learn the safe, traditional art of green woodworking. They will be able to handle real tools to split, whittle, and shape green wood, creating their very own wooden keepsake to take home.
£40 per day (discount available for siblings)
For ages 8+
Summer Holiday Forest Adventures: Clay and Leaf Printing Day
Tuesday 18th August, 10am-2pm
Wrongs Covert, nr Lenwade/Lyng
Join us this summer for four days of woodland magic, wild skills, and outdoor fun! Each day will introduce a brand-new, hands-on masterclass led by our experienced woodland leaders.
Tuesday's activity will be Clay and Leaf Printing. Get stuck into the earth! Sculpt unique forest artefacts or clay faces on the trees, print with leaves.
£40 per day (discount available for siblings)
For ages 8+
Summer Holiday Forest Adventures: Fire Cooking Day
Wednesday 19th August, 10am-2pm
Wrongs Covert, nr Lenwade/Lyng
Join us this summer for four days of woodland magic, wild skills, and outdoor fun! Each day will introduce a brand-new, hands-on masterclass led by our experienced woodland leaders.
Wednesday's activity will be Fire Cooking, the ultimate campfire experience. Kids will learn the basics of fire safety, master the skill of fire lighting, and cook a delicious, warm afternoon snack over the open flames.
£40 per day (discount available for siblings)
For ages 8+
Summer Holiday Forest Adventures: Stream Dipping and Bug Identification
Thursday 20th August, 10am-2pm
Wrongs Covert, nr Lenwade/Lyng
Join us this summer for four days of woodland magic, wild skills, and outdoor fun! Each day will introduce a brand-new, hands-on masterclass led by our experienced woodland leaders.
Thursday's activity will be Stream Dipping and Bug Identification. Dive into the secret aquatic and undergrowth world of Wrongs Covert! Armed with nets, pooters and ID charts, we will explore our stream and forest floor to discover the fascinating bugs, nymphs, and critters that call the Wensum Valley ecosystem home.
£40 per day (discount available for siblings)
For ages 8+
Woodland Family Mini Fest
Friday 21st August, 2-5pm
Wrongs Covert, nr Lenwade/Lyng
Join us in our ancient woodland amongst the cool canopy to relax, be together, play, commune with the trees, make a wand from wood meant just for you and meet some mythical characters of the harvest.
Make family mandalas with woodland findings, discover how to make plant potions to take home, and commune with the trees with the Grain Goddess, who will help you listen to their whispers to select the wand materials just right for you, then whittle your very own.
Suitable for families with children of all ages.
£45 per family
Human Nature
Join us for our seasonal gatherings at Wrongs Covert, open to families and adults of all ages.
We align our events with the wheel of the year, an annual cycle of eight seasonal festivals to honour nature's cycles, solstices and equinox. You'll find a roaring fire, You'll find a roaring fire, and space to bring your own picnic and a rug, with crafts to connect us to the season, music, woodland play and a story circle to gather us.
Upcoming Events
Late summer/autumn programme coming soon...
History Tours
Wrap yourself in layers of time, with a unique historical walking tour. Led by art historian, storyteller and forest school leader Roxanne Matthews. Regular tours are held at Wrongs Covert, and at specialist locations in Norwich.
"My partner and I had the pleasure of being some of the first people to experience Roxanne’s deep time walk. Having fired our imaginations with images of towering glaciers carving the ancient landscape, prehistoric beasts and people roaming the land, and medieval tales of human folly and greed, it left us with a new found sense of appreciation and wonder for the spirit of the local land." - Andre and Esme
Upcoming Events
A Walk Through Deep Time: Four Ages of Wrongs Covert
Thursday 20th August, 6-7.30pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Art historian and storyteller Roxanne Matthews will take you on a journey through glacial chalk stream creation, Neolithic flint making, Saxon animal husbandry, bronze age settlements, medieval moving on and more...
Refreshments such as tea and coffee available, why not bring a picnic to enjoy in the woods after the tour!
£10 per person
Magdalen Street Meander
Thursday 23rd July, 7-8.30pm
Starting at Merchant's House, Norwich
Meander down Magdalen Street as the sun sets. Discover a mayor's house, admire the river by one of the oldest crossing points in the city, meet a ducked woman then wind our way to the old medieval Magdalen Gate, jump the Anglo Saxon ditch, meet the ghosts of five lost churches, two revolutionary women and two anchorites, and a very famous Archbishop
£10 per person
A Walk Through Deep Time: Norwich from the Ice Age to C18th
New dates coming soon...
Starting at Fye Bridge, Norwich
Join Roxanne for a grounding new experience of Norwich, that will change every stroll through the city you take. Explore the deep time of Norwich's ice age past that made our city river and the aquifers beneath our feet, to more human filled times of medieval buildings, Tudor streets, and Norman market place.
£10 per person
Hosted Wild Parties and Ceremonies
Do you ever yearn to mark times of life or gather together but drinks and pub tables and standard birthday parties leave you wanting…something?
We’ll light you a fire and warmly welcome you to a unique, riverside place with a handmade ash stage and neolithic flint pit performance space. Whether it’s a day to mark a year turn, a family celebration or just a space to be in awe of this wonderful life, you’ll have this amazing ecosystem to yourselves, with a guide to help you navigate it.
Hire fees start from £400 per day for sole use of the 17 acre site, with extras available like music, storytelling and dance performances.
