Live Wild

Live Wild’s courses and programmes in woodland near Hebden Bridge connect people of all ages to nature. We offer foraging courses, fire quests, nature club for young people, school holiday clubs, home education days, and more.

Leave the busy day-to-day behind and join us in peaceful natural surroundings to connect with nature, the land, and your wild self.

Foraging Courses

We run regular seasonal foraging courses between March and November. Get to know the local landscape, learn core ID skills, sample a range of wild tasters, and cook up finds over a campfire. For us, foraging is about far more than food. We’ll share medicinal uses of plants and fungi, cordage making, folklore and stories, and ancestral practices including an ancient firelighting method.

The Forager’s Journey

This programme is an immersive seven-part wild food adventure through seasons and habitats, based in beautiful locations around Hebden Bridge. The programme is for those wishing to delve deeper into the fascinating world of wild food, medicine and plant lore.

Questing With Fire

Explore life purpose and direction alongside the practical craft of fire making on this five-part programme, which culminates in an ancient rite-of-passage known as a Fire Quest.

Monthly Nature Club

For children and young people between the ages of 5-15, the club takes place every second Sunday of the month. Young people develop a range of skills, from whittling to wildlife tracking. Our experienced leaders also encourage a sense of belonging and confidence in the great outdoors that can last a lifetime.

Wildlings School Holiday Club

We spend the day enjoying games, activities and crafts at camp and in the surrounding woods and fields. during school holidays. Our experienced Forest School Leaders encourage children to try new things, explore activities of their choice and, most of all, have great fun making new friends and building a relationship with nature that lasts a life time.

Calder Valley Woodland School

Every Tuesday during the school term, children develop skills in areas such as fire making and foraging, woodcraft and ecology, weaving and whittling. Each topic theme is explored over several sessions to enable the development of skills, understanding and confidence in that area. Play and exploration are interwoven through nature-connection games and practices.