Experiences
We offer a unique programme of experiences 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.
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
Leather Water Flask Workshop
Saturday 23rd May, 10am-5pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Join Spencer Loades, bushcrafter and wilderness therapist to soak up the riverside wonder while you learn how to work with leather, thread and wax to create your own beautiful leather water flask to take home.
£85 per person, including materials
Woodcut Printmaking in
the Woods
Saturday 27th June, 10am-4pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Artist Susan Weaver will lead this woodcut workshop, one of the oldest forms of relief printmaking. You’ll learn how to carve your own images and designs onto woodblocks and then print them with inks onto paper. Using the woodland as your resource you will produce unique, nature-inspired woodcut prints to take home, as a record of your time in this ancient woodland.
£85 per person, including materials
Carve Your Own Wooden Stool
Saturday 4th July, 10am-5pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Join a limited number of future craftspeople and make your very own ash stool to take home, along with the skills you need to start your wood working journey. Work with bushcrafter and wilderness therapist Spencer Loades and some beautiful pieces of ash from a fallen tree on site, while the butterflies dance and the stream sings.
£85 per person, including materials
Family Bushcraft & Forest School
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
Living on the Wild Side: Family Survival Camp
Sunday 24th May, 11am-4pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Ever find it hard to get the kids on a walk? Want to cultivate wildness in to your urban family life? You’re not alone! But with the right skills and know-how, getting out in nature can become your whole family’s best time together, woven in to your life, forever.
£150 per family
Saturday Tribe
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
We'll be opening a monthly or bi-weekly Saturday Tribe session soon, with a view to offering the John Muir Award for those that are interested.
The John Muir Award, encourages people of all backgrounds to connect with, enjoy and care for wild places. Participants learn about the special attributes of wild places and the Award helps them Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share their experience of wild places.
For ages 9+
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
Beltane Gathering
Sunday 3rd May, 11am-2pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
First the Blackthorn and now the Hawthorn too, or the May as it's aptly known, you can cast your clouts! Come and celebrate the first spark of Summer in Spring with us in a magical riverside woodland. Your hosts will be Roxanne and Lydia with a band of helpers, together forest school leaders, heritage guides, musicians, gardeners, health professionals, storytellers and makers.
Family tickets £25/Single tickets £12.50
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
Friday 8th May, 10.30am-12.30pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Come and wrap yourself in layers of time in the tranquil and magical riverside woodland that is Wrongs Covert. Join Roxanne on a journey through glacial chalk stream creation, Neolithic flint making, Saxon animal husbandry, bronze age settlements, medieval moving on and more, with a stop round the fire for tea and biscuits, it's a long way to travel with just story for sustenance.
£25 per person, including refreshments
Magdalen Street Meander
Thursday 21st May, 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
Thursday 16th July, 1-2.30pm
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.