Escot Education at The Greenwood Centre

We're a Forest School business based in East Devon offering educational and fun activity days, social events and skills training based on the Forest School ethos of inspiring and encouraging greater independence, self-esteem and personal skills while experiencing Nature.

We are able to offer a very personalised service to groups and individuals that go beyond the conventional and suburban, tailoring our fully-supervised activities to match your needs and imagination. We operate over the full range of the Escot Estate habitats, with river, park, wetland and woodland to explore and study.

The Greenwood Centre provides covered work and social campfire areas, including a heated Mongolian ger for the winter months, an extensive range of greenwood working tools and equipment and an Anglo-Saxon living history site.

Half- and Full-Day and Overnight Sessions ~ Curriculum and Coursework Topics ~ Wild Wood Camps under self-built shelters or in tents ~ Nature Trails and Quizzes ~ Orienteering and Letterboxing ~ Fun Days Out ~ Storytelling ~ Living History Experience sessions ~ The Barefoot Swampwalk ~ Access to Escot Fantasy Gardens, including the Drop Slide, Maze, Animals and Play Areas ~ Forest School training and kit ~ Site Design and Built Consultancy ~ Willow Play Structures ~ Playground Musical Instruments

Forest School Leader's Training courses ~ Site Design & Build Consultancy ~ School based Forest School sessions ~ Wild Wood Camps ~ Cooking and Tool Kit sales

Barefoot Swampwalk Parties ~ Bushcraft and Greenwood Craft Sessions ~ Family Gatherings and Celebrations ~ Family and Friends Greenwood Activity Days ~ Wild Wood Camps ~ Living History ~ Archery ~ Supervised Children's Activity Days

Experimental Archaeology Volunteer Weekends ~ Anglo-Saxon tools and skills ~ Buildings ~ Pottery ~ Blacksmithing ~ Woodwrighting ~ Costume ~ Food and Farming ~ Storytelling ~ Charcoal manufacture

Bow Making ~ Pole Lathe Skills ~ Greenwood Working Skills ~ Whittling ~ Making a Pole Lathe or Draw Horse ~ Fire Lighting ~ Dark Ages Metalworking ~ Charcoal Making ~ Environmental Art & Crafts ~ Hedgerow Basket Making ~ Willow Structures ~ Campfire Cooking ~ Shelter Building

Anglo-Saxon Living History Village ~ Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation groups ~ Forest School work experience ~ Pottering and Gardening