Down to Earth Project

28/10/2026

Discover how nature can support health and wellbeing.

Coming up in December 2026, our residential Level 2 Award in Supporting Wellbeing in Nature explores the benefits of connecting with the natural environment and develops practical skills and confidence to help others engage safely and positively in nature-based activities.

Ideal for anyone interested in supporting the delivery of outdoor sessions for individuals and communities in nature.

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Coed Lleol Small Woods Swansea Coed Lleol Swansea Community Farm Swansea Community Energy Swansea University Swansea Council for Voluntary Service Tir Pontypridd Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales Interlink RCT Keep Wales Tidy - Cadwch Gymru'n Daclus Neath Port Talbot CVS YMCA Swansea Agored Cymru

21/10/2026

A big welcome to Mixtup who have shown us what is possible with true inclusion - we're looking forward to working with you over the coming months!

21/10/2026

We've also kicked off our project at Gnoll Park with Lost Peatlands Project - Prosiect Adfer Mawndiroedd building an outdoor shelter with the community - this is promising to be a very lovely project.

Great progress on day 1 all!

21/10/2026

Autumn is here and so are our groups! We welcome this intake...
Mixtup
Ysgol Hendrefelin
Maes Derw (Swansea PRU) from Swansea Council
Low Secure Mental Health unit from Swansea Bay NHS
Stroke Survivors

Such a diverse range of young people and adult groups showing what's possible... from building timber frame panels to outdoor seating areas and lovely outdoor energisers, it's been a brilliant start to the intake.

A big thank you from our funders The National Lottery Community Fund/ Cronfa Gymunedol y Loteri Genedlaethol and Heritage Fund who are supporting some of these groups to attend.

If you'd like to access our funded programmes (with specific eligibility criteria) get in touch with the team on [email protected]

14/10/2026

02/10/2026

This time last week we celebrated 20 Years of Down to Earth!

It was an emotional day with well over 150 people gathered to share and celebrate what we have achieved together.

We heard the most beautiful words from participants...
We saw an amazing 20 year film (see link later)...
We shared the learning from 15 years of published research
We shared our Open Source Tool kits

and we heard from and said thank you to The National Lottery Community Fund The National Lottery Community Fund/ Cronfa Gymunedol y Loteri Genedlaethol as we finish our 5 year Growing Great Ideas project.

Of course, there were loads of hands on activities, inspirational talks and food which was so good there was nothing left!

It felt like the right way to celebrate and so thank you to our participants, our network and our wider stakeholders.

Here is the 20 Year film - made by Dan from Red Media
and we'll add a short reel from the day next

https://downtoearthproject.org.uk/our-20-year-film-premieres-at-the-celebration-day/

ps... sorry for the slow posting on this event, it's taken a while to recover from the September 20 Year events!

29/09/2026

Thank you Autistic Spectrum Employment Support CIC for your on-going and amazing contributions to everything we do at Down to Earth.

We look forward to journeying onwards together

23/09/2026

Last chance to book your free tickets for our 20 Year Celebration this Friday (Friday 25th September) at Little Bryn Gwyn (SA3 1BG)

It's going to be a lovely day of bringing together participants from many years, our referral agencies, funders and supporters.

You'll hear some brilliant talks on our evidence-based approach and impact, our open source tool kits and what's next...

as well have a chance to do practical workshops in helping to build a home and stick carving...

as ever, some great food and some great conversations.

Last chance to book free tickets here

This September, we are putting on a range of free events to share, celebrate and experience the impact of working with remarkable communities. Take your pick from one, two or all 3 of these days:

22/09/2026

You know something must have gone well when you get feedback like this... "like someone dropped a mento into the diet coke of my mind"

Last Thursday was our "Impact and Research Gathering - sharing over 15 years of published research and evidence base of transformative ways of working - which are proven to work!

Don't worry if you missed it, we'll be offering the same learning at at this Friday's 20 Year Celebration (25th Sep) - attend for free with this link here:

or you can download the published papers/documents in the comments below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrate-20-years-of-down-to-earth-tickets-1994684809962?aff=erellivmlt

A big thank you to the amazing presentations from (photos in the comments)...

Prof Jason Davies School of Psychology Swansea University and Swansea Bay NHS on our latest clinical research on benefits to health practitioners accompanying patients on outdoor based interventions.

Our amazing Kate Denner alongside Jason on the latest developments of our inclusive, pyschological impact measure - My Emoji

Our Research Associate Hassan Raza Bukhari MBCS and Jane Lynch from Cardiff University on our 2 year KTP, groundbreaking Impact Calculator - EPIC - bringing together social, nature and built environment impact metrics into one space - showing true return on investment and full accountability

Our brilliant Community-Led Housing Team Adam land and Kate (again!) sharing our work in nurturing more community-led homes in Wales (celebrating findings after 2 years of support from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

And our summer research intern Anaïs Denner-Roure who collated 11 years of feedback from our participants into a brilliant analysis and report

It's hard to imagine all of this sits alongside our group work with 1000s of under-represented people each year as well as delivering a radical shift in the construction sector - no doubt about it, it's a brilliant team and an EPIC effort to holistically deliver and build the evidence based concurrently.

Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it - come this Friday and see and hear for yourselves from our participants, the team and the academics who work with us

The National Lottery Community Fund/ Cronfa Gymunedol y Loteri Genedlaethol The National Lottery Community Fund