Hearth, Wood and Story: Autumn Family Day - Free Community Event
Hearth, Wood and Story: Autumn Family Day - Free Community Event
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Drop in and join us for a fun day of nature-inspired art, crafts, stories, music and more for all the family.
- Cosy up in our colourful yurt or gather round the warming hearth in our fire temple
- Make your own woodland pixie, dancing puppet or wood carving
- Join in with singing and dancing
- Hunker down in our nature book corner and listen to stories
- Explore beautiful pictures and artwork filled with autumn magic
- Play out in the woods and learn some bushcraft skills, or follow a song or a story
Spend the day with our wonderful woodland team! Joe of Within the Wood, artist and illustrator Jenny, woodland ranger Joel and woodcarver Peter.
Suitable for all ages.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Booking is essential. Please book a place for everyone who is coming.
Drop in any time between 10.30am and 3.30pm.
Please note:
- This event is suitable for all ages. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Plenty of free parking available.
- The yurt and fire temple are partly open to the elements so please dress warmly.
- No dogs please.
About the team
Joe Drury runs Within The Wood, an outdoor education company that offers hands on experiences to promote wellbeing - offering forest school, bushcraft, foraging and traditional skills to people of all ages.
Peter Kovacs of Soulwood Creations is a wood carver, designer and maker who runs courses and events in heritage crafts.
Joel Batchelor is Broughton's Woodland Ranger who looks after our young woodlands and leads practical volunteering sessions here every week.
Jenny Challenger is an artist, illustrator and wood carver.
About Broughton Sanctuary
Broughton Sanctuary is rewriting the story of nature recovery through one of the UK’s most ambitious and holistic rewilding projects. Since 2021, we have been transforming this historic 1030 ha (app. 2500 acres) landscape - once intensively managed farmland - into a thriving mosaic of woodlands, meadows, and wetlands.
Across 80% of the land, we have reintroduced beavers, rare breed livestock, and hundreds of thousands of native trees, while continuing to produce food in ways that support soil health, biodiversity, and long-term ecological resilience. As wildlife returns and communities reconnect with the land, we are guided by science, collaboration, and care, building towards our vision where all of nature, human and non-human, can flourish together.
In our commitment to fostering and deepening this nature connectedness, we are delighted to offer free community events such as this one, that invite you to join us on this incredible journey. These events are designed to inspire, refresh, and ignite your curiosity - providing an opportunity for everyone in our local community to come together.
This event has been funded by the White Rose Forest through their Trees for Climate programme, part of the Government’s Nature for Climate fund. The White Rose Forest is the Community Forest for North and West Yorkshire, and provides support and funding for woodland creation across the region as well as initiatives that bring people and nature closer together.
Location
Fire Temple, Broughton Sanctuary, Skipton, BD23 3AE