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.
Most of 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
Green Wood Workshop
Saturday 19th September, 10am-3pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Come and play with green wood amongst the trees! Join craftsperson, woodworker and wilderness therapist Spencer Loades for a day of play. Work on your own project or create something new; a hazel whistle, a bowl, a staff, a chopping board, a seasonal wooden mushroom...
Suitable for ages 18 +
Includes all materials.
Refreshments are provided, please bring a packed lunch.
£65 per person
Sacred Sounds Drum Making Workshop
Saturday 17th October, 10am-5pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
A one-day ceremonial drum making experience with Ren from By The Tree. Together we will create a traditional frame drum using ethically sourced natural materials, stretching the hide by hand, weaving the lacing, and bringing each drum into being with patience, intention and care.
Suitable for ages 18 +
Includes all materials.
Refreshments are provided, please bring a packed lunch.
Places are limited to just 6 for this unique experience.
£350 per person.
Seasonal Gatherings
Join us for our seasonal gatherings at Wrongs Covert and beyond.
Many of our events align with the wheel of the year, an annual cycle of eight seasonal festivals to honour nature's cycles, solstices and equinox. Here you'll find connection, to each other and nature, in all its forms...
Upcoming Events
Lost Myths: Storytelling Evening
Friday 2nd October, 7-9pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
Join us in the magical surroundings of Wrongs Covert, where humans have gathered to weave myths and stories for centuries. For an evening of lost stories, myths and tales in the woods.
The night will be hosted by Roxanne Matthews, as she shares some of the lost stories emerging from her research and attention here at Wrongs, and invites you to tell your own...
£12.50 per person
Samhain Grief Circle
Sunday 1st November, 10am-10pm
Wrongs Covert, Lenwade, Norwich
We invite you to the ancient woodland for a 12 hour grief vigil round the fire to mark Samhain. Bring an image of a loved one and their favourite food, a silent knowing, a loss, and speak it or don’t speak it into the fire. This will be a quiet space of contemplation, there may be respectful singing and music. The fire, the trees and the water will hold us and we’ll hold each other.
Two hour slots available from 10am-10pm.
Tickets are free but spaces are limited, please book in advance
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
Saturday 3rd October, 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
Friday 18th September, 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
Tuesday 29th September, 5.30-7pm
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
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 know how, 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
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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.
