Rewilding Randoms Retreat |
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Vegetable Garden & Holistic Herbs |
Adult Wellbeing |
Memberships & Subscription |
FREE FOOD, FUN, FRIENDS & FURRIES
February Half Term Events funded by Derwent Valley Area Action Partnership February 21st-25th Out of School sessions including a healthy Lunch and Goody bag for a healthy evening meal. While with us your child will get to meet our small animals, learn about their care and spend time playing and training with our goats around our obstacles. We will spend time in our cabin creating wildlife feeders using recycled materials and stone art to take home. We will also start to plant saplings and vegetable seeds so we can grow our own food and learn about sustainability and re-wilding. We have 10 FREE places funded by DCC and 2 subsidised places. Drop a message or comment to chat about eligibility. |
FREE FOOD, FUN, FRIENDS & FURRIES
Easter Half Term Events funded by Derwent Valley Area Action Partnership April 11th-22nd Out of School sessions including a healthy Lunch and Goody bag for a healthy evening meal. We will be joined by local artist, children's author and illustrator Monique Sirl Scott on Saturday 16th Outdoor learning group Mini Explorers on Tuesday 20th Wildlufe artist and children's author Sarah Gee on Wednesday 21st While with us your child will get to meet our small animals, learn about their care and spend time playing and training with our goats around our obstacles. We will spend time creating wildlife feeders and bug houses using recycled materials and stone art to take home. We will also start to plant vegetable seeds so we can grow our own food and learn about sustainability and re-wilding. We have 10 FREE places funded by DCC and 2 subsidised places. Drop a message or comment on our facebook events to chat about eligibility. |
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Young Rangers
Young Rangers has been running since August 2019 and the children that come along love spending time in our woodlands. These sessions are child led and although we have an idea of what we would like to do the kids choose the activities for sessions. We are lucky our members don't often ask for much, a few crafts activities, the odd party that cost us a little from our savings pot. If we could build the finances in the centre account it would mean we can offer better facilities, better activities and the odd few treats to the kids that enjoy just being around the centre. |
Experience Days
Come along for a day, or half a day and enjoy being a part of our daily routines. Learn about feeds, grooming and care for the horses, goats and sheep. Help maintain the land they live on, fixing fences, clearing the paddocks, filling hay nets. Complete risk assessments and health checks, take part in training with our herd using positive reinforcement and hand walk our goats out for fresh grass. The small donation for these days helps to support our food bills and veterinary treatment. |
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DONATE to Random's Retreat
Every penny we can collect is put back into the projects we run, all sessions and events are currently self funded by our directors.
We have begun looking for community funding via other organisations and will keep you guys updated but we know each funding pot only accepts 12-15% of their applications so finding funding could be a long road.
In summer 2020 we set up a PayPal.me to raise money to buy a container we could convert to a kid's cabin so our Young Ranger Leaders have a safe dry place to run our sessions during bad weather. Overnight we raised over £400 towards this with the support of our amazing members. The rangers now have a dry base room, they can collect and display their work and use the cabin to research, store books or just chill on a wet day.
We have begun looking for community funding via other organisations and will keep you guys updated but we know each funding pot only accepts 12-15% of their applications so finding funding could be a long road.
In summer 2020 we set up a PayPal.me to raise money to buy a container we could convert to a kid's cabin so our Young Ranger Leaders have a safe dry place to run our sessions during bad weather. Overnight we raised over £400 towards this with the support of our amazing members. The rangers now have a dry base room, they can collect and display their work and use the cabin to research, store books or just chill on a wet day.
Regular Contributions
Would you like to attend our sessions?
Do you know we offer selected session plans for FREE?
Would you like to make a regular contribution to support the work we do?
With www.paypal.me/randomsretreat you can, it's simple just drop us a message and let us know what you would like to donate. We show all our costings in our project details so you can see where every penny or pound you donate goes.
Would you like to attend our sessions?
Do you know we offer selected session plans for FREE?
Would you like to make a regular contribution to support the work we do?
With www.paypal.me/randomsretreat you can, it's simple just drop us a message and let us know what you would like to donate. We show all our costings in our project details so you can see where every penny or pound you donate goes.
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Remembrance Wood
Dedicate a Tree Scheme We planted over 800 native saplings in our mini woodland in 2019. Visitors came to plant a tree and for a small donation of £3 they were dedicated to a loved one and everyone received a certificate and picture to take home and a wood burnt dedication message tag was attached to their sapling. We planned to have regular updates and photos of our woodland as it grew. Due to landowner changes this project needed to be relocated and all members were informed we were looking to bring the Remembrance Area closer to our Sensory Garden and Cabin space. These saplings have now been planted around the edge of our wild meadow area and people space so they are accessible to visit. There has been a delay on reworking the dedication tags as the harsh weather we have destroyed most but each sapling is numbered and starting to grow nicely in their new space. 
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Agility Course
We have a few jumps, weave poles, ground poles and some home made activities to use as a course for our in hand sessions with the herd but having more can only make things better! Being able to have a full size pony tunnel, materials to build a stepping walkway and desensitising equipment would be amazing, we have balls, skittles and tyres here but the wood, tools and materials to make these into activities bring the prices up..... lets see what we can do together 
Cabin Fever
What a difference a cabin could make, our kids groups would have a dry warm space to work in on winter days. Our peer support group would have a space to take part in confidence and team building exercises. A dry place to chat and have a cuppa while watching our herd. We could have an office space to hold meetings (rather than my front room) and somewhere for visitors to sit and chat about what we can offer and achieve A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED We now have our container/cabin and will be looking to add decking, toilet and windows to make this space even better in 2022 |
Random's Retreat CIC
behind Fines Road
Medomsley
Consett
DH8 6QR
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behind Fines Road
Medomsley
Consett
DH8 6QR
Facebook: Random's Retreat CIC