Christmas Family Forest Days

Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 December  Please note the different timings on each day. During the Christmas holidays we are running our hugely popular family activity days… Lots of fun in the great outdoors. Activities will include:  campfire and s’mores, trails, shelter building, natural art crafts Tickets include a jacket potato/soup and hot drinks in…

Be Free Young Carers Day

We’ve been delighted to have Be Free Young Carers with us this week for fun and adventures at Hill End. Young carers from Oxford City and Vale of White Horse enjoyed bushcraft, cooking and orienteering and exploring! We’d like to give huge thanks to the Hedley Foundation who provided the grant that made this all…

Wytham Woods What’s On

Wytham Woods are our neighbours – the University of Oxford’s ‘laboratory with leaves’ is a private woodland, but free to visit with a walking permit. Special education access can also be granted for groups, email: Wythamytham.woods@admin.ox.ac.uk directly for permission. Or, visit their website. The estate has been owned and maintained by the University of Oxford since…

Woodcraft and Spooncarving

Try green woodcarving and spooncarving with expert tuition in the beautiful surroundings of Hill End! Carving a wooden spoon from a simple piece of freshly cut tree branch is a deeply satisfying experience. Green wood is very yielding and all of your senses are stimulated, from the smell of fresh wood shavings being carved away…