Get involved at Her Land

Attend a session.

Our sessions are open to anyone to attend, however you do have to complete an application form with basic details first.

You dont need to attend every sessions, you can just pick and choose around what works for you.

Current sessions available are:

• Thriving in Nature (women 18+). Weekly Tuesday morning 9.30am - 11.30am. Regular Sundays 2pm - 4pm (check calendar for dates). Get out into nature and reduce your stress levels by taking part in activities on site that will improve your physical and mental health, allow you to meet like-minded people, and learn new skills. Activities included in the Thriving in Nature programme at the moment are focused on clearing and laying out the Her Land site and involve manual work. These include Digging with hand tools; planting trees; cutting back undergrowth; wheelbarrowing; mulching with cardboard and woodchip; creative projects to help signpost the site, and more. Please only apply if you feel confident that you have the physical fitness and ability to engage in most of these activities. If you face an activity that you do not feel comfortable participating in at a session please make sure that you communicate this clearly to your group leader at the time.
• Under 5's Play Trail Development (women 18+). Weekly Monday morning 9am - 10.30am, term time only. This project that runs alongside an Under 5's project being delivered in partnership with The Red Kite Family Centre. The focus is on creating a nature play trail in a small area on the site, opening up paths and clearings that have a range of different activities such as balancing beams, tyre mud pits, log steps, a bug hotle and more. Similar to our Thrive in Nature sessions, work is very manual in nature, however there is opportunity for creative finishing touches made out of materials foraged from the site - whether natural, or connected to the farming heritage that surrounds Her Land.
• Her Land Girls (girls 11-17): Fortnightly Friday afterschool. Times vary depending on the season. A variety of outdoor sessions, with activity choices driven by the girls who attend. Working to set up a dedicated space for girls on the site.
• Workshops (various throughout the week). We work in partnership with several different women to bring you a range of outdoor sessions at Her Land. These include yoga, strength training, nature connect and more. All current opportunities are on our Events Calendar

To attend a session, complete the form below with more details about what you are interested in and we will get in contact with you.

Volunteer

If you are interested in taking on a role with more responsibility then we have many opportunities to get involved as a volunteer at Her Land.

• Lead or co-lead one of the sessions above: Take on a role helping to deliver one of the sessions above. Full training will be provided. These roles are usually given to women who have already been attending the sessions as a participant and know more about what is involved. This requires a commitment of attending the session and helping to lead it at least once a month (2-3 hours).
• Duke of Edinburgh Awards:We are able to offer Duke of Edinburgh placements to girls during our Friday afternoon Her Land girls session. This takes place fortnightly during term time after school. It includes the opportunity to get involved in delivering 3 event activities during the year as well.
• Events Team: We are putting together a small team of people who are interested in helping to run one or more events a year either onsite, or promote Her Land elsewhere. These events aim to raise awareness and funds. These could be anything from a volunteer fair, craft sessions, Easter Egg Hunts, Fun Days, tours of the site and anything else you can imagine. There are various levels of commitment - from planning and administrating an event, to turning up to help on the day,
• Business Liaison: We are regularly contacted by businesses who want a session delivered on site as a team building activity. We need volunteers to liaise with the businesses to arrange the details, as well as women who are happy to deliver the volunteer days themselves.
• Marketing, Social Media, Website: We want to get the word out more about our project and have a small team of people helping to achieve this. At the moment we need graphic design support and help with website updates and regular social media posting.
• Fundraising: We need support to write funding applications, help to run fundraising events, and help to shape and deliver Crowdfunder campaigns.
• Advocates: We would love to hear from women who would be willing to learn more about the project and then raise awareness of it in their networks and workplaces.

To get involved as a volunteer complete the form below, giving us more details about which role you might be interested in and we will get back to you with more information.