Our Events Calendar is Officially Launched (thank you Simon)
“Oh my days!” as one of our volunteers regularly says! A couple of weeks ago, we realised that we’d got a fabulous stack of incredibly diverse events lined up to help us raise funds for Word Forest. Thankfully, our in-house Super Geek, Simon, managed to create a seriously cool, whizz-bang calendar and ticketing system, so […]
Making a Stand as a New Charity
First impressions are everything these days. From the moment we opened our doors as a charity on 7th April 2017, we have worked really hard to set out our stall in the most professional way possible. We applied due diligence with every penny of our limited start up funds and our CEO Tracey embarked on […]
From our CEO Tracey West: NACOA & Being a Child of an Alcoholic
Tracey West has been a proud, active Trustee for the National Association for Children of Alcoholics for a decade. Nacoa is a Bristol based charity founded in 1990 to address the needs of children growing up in families where one or both parents suffer from alcoholism, or a similar addictive problem. Their service is extended to […]
Tying the Knot? Let’s Plant a Forest!
Firstly, congratulations to you both! If you’re already starting to worry about how many gift-wrapped toasters you’re going to receive, don’t panic. We’ve got a perfect solution to help you celebrate your special day with impressive environmental bells on. Our digital team will create a beautiful webpage with a link to send to your guests […]
Our 100% Organic Cotton Range: the ethical facts
Our Sapling Collection of 100% super-soft organic cotton clothing, has a very special place in our heart for so many reasons. Firstly, for every single garment purchased, we will plant a tree in our Word Forest in Kenya. Secondly, you can put them on the minute you rip them out of their packaging because they’re […]
Go Green! Change Your Energy Supplier to Ecotricity
If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, changing the way you power your home and business to a renewable source, is a great first step. Change to Ecotricity, Britain’s greenest energy company and two rather wonderful additional things will happen: a donation of up to £60 will be made to The Word Forest Organisation and for a limited time […]
Thoughts from our CEO: the new girl
It’s funny really, I’ve been dreaming of this day for so long and I’m struggling to believe it’s actually here. It’s my Day One as CEO and fundraiser for The Word Forest Organisation, a charity… a proper charity! My thoughts of turning the work my husband and I had done in Kenya as philanthropists, into […]
The Word Forest Organisation is a Charity!
Our CEO and Board of Trustees are quite simply bursting with joy – we have just been granted official charitable status! Our application went into the Charity Commission on the 8th December 2016 and following much correspondence between them and us as we thrashed out the all important wording, here we finally are. Our mission to […]
Spilling the Beans on #DroughtKe
The catastrophic drought currently holding Kenya in a terrifying grip, has pushed the country into a critical state. Countless crops have failed, coffee yields have decreased, the land is drying up and outlying communities who are entirely dependent upon their fields producing good harvests to keep themselves fed, are turning to one of the most self-destructive methods […]
