We would like to facilitate opportunities for you to develop a deeper, more sustainable relationship with nature. At the heart of everything we do is a vision of sustainability and effective use of resources.
Our Leaders are fully insured, have outdoor first aid training as well as advance safeguarding training and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificates (DBS).
Dominika Baran
MANAGER/ GROUP LEADER
(Registered Person, SENCO, Data Protection, Designated Safeguarding Lead)
Dominika is a qualified Steiner Early Year’s Teacher, Forest school practitioner and outdoor educator and holds a BA in Arts and Cultural Management.
She has worked with children and families for over 15 years and is passionate about outdoor learning, bushcraft and ancient crafts, sustainable living, organic food growing, weaving & felting, seasonal celebration, and craft.
Dominika recently completed Permaculture Design Certificate for Educators – Engaging Children in Permaculture. She is also a recipient of scholarship from School of Stitched Textiles where she studies Felting.
Lena Leszczyc
WOODLAND HOLIDAY CLUB GROUP LEADER
Lena is a qualified Steiner Teacher, Forest School leader, Singer and Children Entertainer. She has a wide range of interests, in art, craft and music. Moreover, Lena is also a sound therapist and loves singing and playing many instruments such as native american style flute, celtic harp, and signing bowls.
Emma McGuinness
WOODLAND HOLIDAY CLUB GROUP LEADER
(Deputy Safeguarding Lead & SENCO)
Emma lives in Bath and is qualified Early Years Educator as well as Forest school practitioner who loves to spend time with children out in nature, enjoying all the seasons together as they come and go.
She enjoys helping children to create with natural materials, to tell stories and other crafts. She has three big boys and a dog and cats.
Emma also has a degree in English literature.
Kevin Button
WILD DADS GROUP LEADER
Group Leader HAF programme for children age 8 +
Since he was a young boy, Kevin explored the forest, building dens and going on adventures. At University, he went on to study Outdoor Education with Physical Education (BSc).
After a decade of travelling in Europe and the Americas, cross-Atlantic sailing, adventuring and working on various earth-based farms, ranging from permaculture to bio construction, Kevin revisited his early boyhood passion to learn directly from lineages that weave philosophical/indigenous ways in relating with nature. With this dream, Kevin interned and worked with a renowned Wilderness School in the States, Twin Eagles, followed by an apprenticeship at a land-based subsistence farmstead in the Pacific North West for a year.
Since his return to the U.K., Kevin has worked (and still working with) various nature connection based organisations, such as Sacred Earth, Cultivating Curiosity, Wild Wise, Children’s Forest, Creative Roots, Trackways and Five Rivers, in order to practice his knowledge in the field.
Kevin is a certified Forest School Leader and has just completed his Survival Instructor Training with Trackways, the number one Wilderness Survival School in the U.K. All of this allows him to passionately and skillfully deliver high quality, engaging and fun learning environments.
Karoline Grey-Clarke
WOODLAND HOLIDAY CLUB GROUP LEADER
Karoline is a qualified teacher QTS and mum to 2 boys and wild swimming enthusiast.
She absolutely passionate about child focused learning experiences which has led her to work in a variety of roles from play leader, primary teacher to a preschool leader in the past 20 years.
She enjoys camping and campfire cooking, reading, painting, swimming or enjoying a spot of ballroom dancing. Karoline love supporting children to develop their unique skills and talents.
CARMEN JONES
WOODLAND HOLIDAY CLUB GROUP LEADER
Carmen is a qualified forest school leader, dancer and nature lover.
Growing up on a farm as well as studying as a child at Steiner school
and also attending art college were all major influences that lead her to her forest school vocation.
She especially enjoys working with children creatively using arts, crafts and storytelling to explore nature’s cycles with an aim to encourage learners to gain a deeper nature connection.
She has 3 children, is an environmentalist, martial artist, forest bather and loves walking her dog.