Our Progress at Kadunguni Primary School
Here’s a fabulous shot of the staff room we’ve built at Kadunguni Primary School, our second major school project. Thanks to all the supporters of our reforestation and classroom building charity – we’re making amazing mini-miracles happen over in Kenya. According to our forestry expert Trustee Ru Hartwell – who took the photograph and has […]
Our Free Gift to the World to Reduce Rubbish & Pollution
Our CEO, Tracey West, is a passionate environmentalist and an advocate for simple, green living. In 2008, she was commissioned by Fragile Earth Books/Sawdays to pen an interactive, room-by-room, guide to reducing household waste and keeping more money in your pocket. She wrote ‘The Book of Rubbish Ideas’, a quirky, upbeat, thought provoking, interactive read […]
Come Enjoy the Big (Lyme) Green Christmas Fayre!
We are absolutely delighted to announce news of our Big Green Christmas Fayre in Lyme Regis on Saturday 2nd December. Click here to book your FREE tickets – one very lucky ticket holder will be picked at random and gifted 10 beautiful trees in one of our tropical forests in Kenya.They’ll get a lovely certificate […]
Thanks to Helen for a Super Scented Organic Fundraiser!
Last week, our wonderful Trustee Helen Roberts, held a Neal’s Yard Pamper Evening and she kindly donated the profits from it, to our charity. We’ll be turning it directly into trees and a few building materials for an urgently needed new classroom at Kadenguni Primary School in Coast Province, quite near the last ones we built […]
Thanks to Izzy and Jed Robertson for a Night of Magic!
How lucky we are to have such a talented bunch of Trustees! Izzy Robertson is a brilliant fantasy fiction author (Three Words, Dreaming the Moon) a super editor too and a great Trustee; she has a particular specialism of matters literary – no surprises there! Her son Jed is currently studying music at the University of South Wales […]
Event: The Faeries’ Bazaar
Please join us for a family-friendly, spellbinding evening of spoken word entertainment from the pen of talented fantasy fiction author, Izzy Robertson, with enchanting musical accompaniment from Jed Robertson, as they lead you through the Faeries’ Bazaar. The show was performed last year and had marvellous reviews – how delighted we are that Izzy’s magical […]
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 […]
The Story of The Word Forest Organisation
Make yourself a cup of your favourite brew, get comfy for a few minutes, then click below to find the why this Dorset based charity has such fire in its belly to plant trees & build classrooms in impoverished communities in Kenya. The Team
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 […]