Welcome back, Venture Trust

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Jcat

This month we were glad to welcome back Venture Trust for more outdoor therapy training. The crew gave back to Three Hares by helping us nurture our newly planted trees with a day of tree care.

Venture Trust ‘use Scotland’s outdoors and work in communities to deliver intensive personal development for people, at any stage in their life, struggling with issues such as involvement in the criminal justice system, long term unemployment, recovery from addiction, homelessness or risk of homelessness, isolation, and a history of trauma or harm.‘

We are so pleased to host Venture Trust at Three Hares, to support the great work they do, and appreciate the efforts they have put into helping to look after our trees!

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Trees? Yes Please!

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Jcat

This Volunteer Sunday at Three Hares (26th March) we planted more native broadleaf trees donated to us by TCV (The Conservation Volunteers) as part of their ‘I Dig Trees Campaign’ which aims to plant 1million trees in the UK each year.

Oak, Silver Birch, Hazel, Rowan, Alder…

We were joined by TreeSisters Edinburgh Grove who ‘gather in circle with other treesisters to explore Sisterhood, feminine Nature based leadership and… care and restoration.’ They are based at the Salisbury Centre, Edinburgh, welcome new members and are part of the global network of TreeSisters , ‘people coming together for the trees and funding the reforestation of the planet‘.

Next Volunteer Sunday is 30th April, 11am-3pm. See you there?

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Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns Grow

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Jcat

Volunteer Sunday happening this Sunday 26th Feb, 11am-3pm. We have kindly been donated some Oak saplings, grown and nurtured by Three Hares volunteer Alison Whiteford (thanks Alison!). Come help us plant them, and tackle some other Three Hares site maintenance. As usual, bring whatever drinks and snacks you will need, appropriate footwear and work gloves if you have them.

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Volunteer Days Are Back!

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Jcat

Perhaps your New Years Resolution was to get fit, or to spend more time outdoors, or to connect with nature, or to help with some conservation projects? You could tick all those boxes by joining us at Three Hares this Sunday 29th January for our Volunteer Sunday! (last Sunday of every month 11am-3pm). No previous experience necessary!

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Venture Trust Outdoor Therapy Training

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Jcat

Back in September, Venture Trust held a two-day Outdoor Therapy training course at the Three Hares Community Woodland. The course was attended by counsellors and outdoor professionals from varying backgrounds. The participants enjoyed the peace and tranquillity of the site to explore their inner and outer worlds and experiment with the use of metaphor and nature as co-facilitator/co-therapist in their practice.

Venture Trust’s Outdoor Therapy service aims to support people by combining the full range of benefits from time in nature and the outdoors with professional therapy to improve mental health and wellbeing. 

Outdoor Therapy is delivered in urban outdoor and green spaces such as parks, community gardens, woodlands, beaches, or local hills. It can help people gain perspective and reflect on past or current life events that are troubling. Metaphors offered by nature may develop into insight on feelings, relationships, and experiences. – Rich (Tilly) Tildesley, Venture Trust

Three Hares Woodland…was the perfect location in so many ways. When we were reflecting on running the training afterwards, we reflected that it couldn’t really have been more perfect. The site has such a wonderful variety of spaces, a firepit, the water, the hut, and the compost loo! – Katarina Horrox, Clinical Manager, Venture Trust

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Have you been to visit the Musical Forest yet?

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Jcat

Why not tie it in with helping us out on a Volunteer Day? They happen the last Sunday of every month. Next one is on Sunday 30th October! 11am-3pm. Help us look after our young trees, then go and bust out some rhythms!

Here is another video clip of our launch picnic on the 8th October, showing the Musical Forest Allstars in action! :

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Musical Forest Launch…It Happened!

Posted on October 15, 2022 by Jcat
Makers and Musicians of The Musical Forest

Last Saturday, 8th October, we finally officially launched The Musical Forest. Thanks to our very own band The Musical Forest Allstars, to the makers, the funders and to those who came down to enjoy the music and their picnics!

If you wish to bring a group to the Musical Forest then let us know by emailing threehareswoodland@gmail.com The Musical Forest is always open though, so feel free to pop along anytime for a wee jam.

This is what it can sound like!:

Also, look out for more workshops at The Musical Forest. The next one is for kids 6+, on Wednesday 18th Oct, 11am-3pm. Book tickets with Trees And Seas Outdoor Adventures

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Ceilidh Time Has Arrived! Tomorrow, 15th Oct!!

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Jcat

You feeling the pull to be reeled and flung?! Three Hares Fundraising Ceilidh is happening! Tomorrow, 15th Oct at 7pm. It’s going to be a hoot!!

Tickets on the door, or to avoid disappointment buy here:

3HARES-CEILIDH.EVENTBRITE.CO.UK

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Folklore and Felting This Saturday, 15th Oct, 12-4pm

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Jcat

A reminder we are hosting an outdoor storytelling and community crafting session celebrating Autumn, this Saturday at Three Hares from 12-4pm, continuing our year of Stories programme. All welcome!

Dougie Mackay will bring a selection of stories relating to the seasons and the craft in focus: felting.

Jenny Muirhead will lead a collective crafting piece, using wool to create a ‘felted’ piece of art representing imagery from one of the stories. All abilities welcome.

Arrival from 12, with crafting from 12.30.

Book a place:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/folklore-and-felting…

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Thank you and Congratulations to Mona!

Posted on October 10, 2022 by Jcat

Mona Kastell has won Gold medal at the World Stage Design 2022 Awards in ‘Alternative Design’ for her set design for ‘Glimpsing Air Pockets'(pictured above), a Scottish immersive, multi-sensory dance theatre production bridging stage design with Nature connection to shape sustainable communities and wellbeing.

Creative Scotland funded Mona’s World Stage Design 2022 attendance in Calgary, Canada to exhibit her nominated Ecoscenographic set design and to work alongside international peers, lead ecological workshops, promote Ecostage (an online initiative to promote sustainable performing arts practice) and network to develop ecological design thinking in the international performing arts industry.

Mona included an extra fee as part of her funding application to be donated to a local Scottish woodland to help offset her international flight and encourage local environment regeneration for which she chose Three Hares Community Woodland.

Thank you, Mona, and congratulations!

See more of Mona’s work here:

https://www.monakastell.com/

https://www.monakastell.com/2022/08/06/wsd22-professional-exhibition/
https://www.monakastell.com/2022/08/12/coming-back-from-wsd22-with-an-award-first-place-in-alternative-design/

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