28/10/2025
☀ An invitation to co-deliver a woodland based wellbeing programme celebrating our voice! ☀
In line with my current funding themes, we are looking for a group to benefit who fall under the category of ‘marginalised’. This could include older people, those living with physical disabilities (incl. chronic conditions), those with learning disabilities, those with mental health challenges, those in the LGBTQ+ community, individuals from diverse cultures, those who have lived experience of abuse, those from poor backgrounds etc etc.
The brief intro to the programme is:
“Our voices are integral to who we are, yet we can be afraid to use them. Through this 6-week programme we’ll explore that, softening our bodies, calming our nervous systems and allowing us to fully express ourselves. We will play with our voices, tuning into the sounds and textures around us and singing with each other and the trees. This programme is for you whether you love to sing or whether it’s in the shower only!”
As with all our delivery, we aim to be outside within a green space as much as possible (with poor weather contingencies). We will gather around a campfire, have hot drinks and snacks, and share time connecting to the natural world. Nature will be grounded in all the voice related activities. This is not about singing songs necessarily, as in a choir – no experience or talent in singing is required at all! You don’t need to be able to sing in tune! I understand this will sound like a very daunting option for people (it would be for me too!) but we are keen to offer a slightly different approach to arts in nature. We trialled this on a standalone session earlier this year, and despite the groups trepidations it was one of our best – full of fun, laughing, group cohesion, and individuals surprising themselves with how much they enjoyed it!
Ideally I am looking for one or two Partners to collaborate with, with you providing the cohort who have shared life experiences (as per my first paragraph).
This would be free to you and your service users.
It would run one session per week over a 6-week period (unless your cohort requires a more bespoke schedule, we can be flexible).
Venue could be: Carmarthen, Llanelli, Tumble, or Ammanford (or again, we can look at other site options if this suits you better).
We need to deliver this by mid February 2026.
We can look at transport costs if this is a barrier to your service users attending.
We can look at financial reimbursement to you / your staff if it enables you to support your service users to attend.
Please get in touch if you’d like to chat. This is a really exciting programme and I can’t wait to see it through!
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07786 916954 / [email protected]
