Surrey Wildlife Trust has delivered Forest School training in the county for over a decade, training and supporting hundreds of Forest School Practitioners in Surrey. Now that it is firmly established in the county, and with many other organisations offering this training, we have taken the decision to move our focus elsewhere. With the urgent need to restore nature by 2030, a core mission of the Wildlife Trusts as a whole (Strategy 2030 | The Wildlife Trusts), we will be focusing our resources on supporting schools and communities to make positive changes for nature. We will continue to run our Wilder Schools programme in schools, provide a CPD training programme for educators, and offer activities for schools at our educational nature reserve.
Students currently enrolled on courses that have already commenced will not be affected by this decision.
There are two main local support networks for Forest School folk in Surrey and they are:
- Forest School Association Surrey ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/630330020414452/ )
- SWT Nature Network for Educators (https://www.surreywildlifetrust.org/what-we-do/news/e-newsletters/nature-network-educators.)
There are many alternative training providers that you may wish to contact to enquire about future course dates, including:
- Bus Stop Pre-School and Forest School (https://www.busstoppreschool.co.uk)
- Sussex Wildlife Trust (Forest School Training | Sussex Wildlife Trust)
- Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust (Training | Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust)
- Plumpton College (Forest School - Plumpton College).