For most events, booking is essential. The details of each event tell you if you need to book. For events where there is no need to book, just come to the wood during the advertised time.
If you would like to come to a bookable event, please first call to check availability during office hours as places are strictly limited.
Make your booking over the phone or call in to the wood. Please pay at the time of booking - either by credit card over the phone, by credit card, cash or cheque in person, or by posting a cheque made payable to "Wilderness Wood" to Wilderness Wood, Hadlow Down, Near Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 4HJ. Places are not reserved until payment is received.
Cancellations: no refund given within two weeks of the event. A £5 admin fee will be charged if cancelled earlier. We normally continue in ALL weather conditions, but may cancel on the day in the event of exceptionally bad weather, with full refund.
Prices for all events include admission to the wood. Last updated 25 June 2009
Our new interactive trail, now extended until the end of July.
Learn about the folklore and legends of trees, plants and woodlands - see Wilderness Wood with new eyes! Out in the wood you can spot fairy gardens and shelters, strange clay faces on tree trunks and dreamcatchers fluttering from branches - and make your own.
You can add to the growing gallery in the barn of charcoal drawings and poems, created by visitors of all ages from 4 year olds to "oldies"!
Don't miss it!
Now extended to July 31 Usual opening hours
29 Jul, 10 Aug 10.30am-11.30am Please book
Children (3-6) £4.50 Adults £3.40
Big Bug hunt (For 7-11 year olds) Search in different areas of the
wood for all sorts of creepy-crawlies and find out how they live.
Investigate your favourite bug and make a book and a model from
woodland materials to take home.
10 Aug, 1 Sept (additional date) 10.30 – 12.30pm Please book
Children (7-11) £6.50 Adults £3.40
27 Jul, 4, 12, 20, 26 (additional date) Aug
11.30am – 2.30pm Please book
Children (6-11) £9.85 Adults £3.40
Woodland monsters Go into the deep dark woods in search of a monster! Listen to his story, get camouflaged with masks to take home, then follow the clues to his hiding place.
Tues 28 Jul 10.30-11.30am & 2-3pm Please book
Child 3-6 (adult must accompany) £5.35 Adult £3.40
3 Aug 10.30-11.30am & 2-3pm
Tue 11, 27 (additional date) Aug 10.30 – 11.30am Please book
Child 3-6 (adult must accompany) £5.35 Adult £3.40
Crafty stuff Family workshop. Be creative with clay, textiles and natural materials, making woodland animals and scenes, with artist Lyn Merrick.
7 Aug 10 – 12.30pm Please book
Child (6-12) £7.90 Adult £7.90
30 Jul, 13, 25 (additional date) Aug 2.30-4pm Please book
£5.35 per bear (accomp by child of 3-6) Adult £3.40
Survive in the wild What are the four things you need to survive? Find them in the woods! Hands-on activities to learn survival skills; light a fire without paper or matches to cook marshmallows over.
Wed 5, 24 (additional date) Aug 10am-12noon
Children (8-13) £7.15 Adults £3.40 Please book
Moths by moonlight Meet the night creatures of the wood; includes "sugaring" tree trunks and identifying visitors to a moth light trap. Bring a torch. Includes a hot drink in the barn. With Simon Curson.
Sat 15 Aug 8.00 - 9.45pm
Adults £6.95 Concs. £6.05
Child (6-15) £4.40 Please book
Woodland sketchbook - everyone can draw! Artist Lyn Merrick will be your guide and teacher in the woods as you learn to capture scenes, details and still life. All materials provided.
Sun 30 Aug 1pm - 4.30pm
Adults £20 Please book
Weds 19 Aug 10.30am-3.30pm Please book
Child (6-15) (under 7s accomp.) £16.80, Adult £16.80
Survival special Spend a day in the wood learning basic family bushcraft. Can you build a better shelter than your mum or dad? What food can you cook and eat? How do you purify water? Learn how to light your fire without matches or paper. Further details here
Fri 21 Aug 10am – 4pm Please book
Child (8-15) £20 Adult £35
Seed gathering Sunday. Walk in the woods and gather tree seeds to identify, take home and plant. Part of the Tree Council’s Seed Gathering Season.
Sun 27 Sept 10am – 5.30pm
Usual admission prices; small charge for seed
identification and planting guide.
Chestnut celebration Gather and learn about sweet chestnuts on a special walk through the ancient coppice woodland. Try roast chestnuts, chestnut soup and chestnut cake. Usual admission prices.
Throughout October 10am - 5pm
Coppice skills A beginners guide to the craft of coppicing. Learn to cut down poles to make fence stakes, roof shingles and other woodland products using hand tools. Enjoy tea brewed on the coppicers fire.
Saturday 24 October 1pm – 4pm
Adult £17 Concs £15 Please book
Survive in the wild What are the four things you need to survive? Find them in the woods! Hands-on activities to learn survival skills; light a fire without paper or matches to cook marshmallows over.
Tues Oct 27 10am – 12 noon Please book
Children (8-13) £7.15 Adult £3.40
Castaway Join an expedition deep into the wood; have fun building shelters and cooking dampers over a camp fire. Bring sausages and a picnic lunch, wear old clothes. Adults welcome to accompany and help.
Wed Oct 28 11.30am – 2.30pm Please book
Children (6-11) £9.85 Adult £3.40
Hallowe'en creations Come into the deep dark woods and collect woodland materials to make spooky Hallowe'en decorations.
Thu 29 Oct 10.30-12 noon
Children (6-11) £5.75 Adults £3.40 Please book
Ghost stories and ghoulish games Act out a ghost story in the woods and enjoy Chilling Challenges with the Intrepid Theatre Company. Also bonfire, sausage BBQ, apple bobbing and Best-Dressed Ghoul.
Café open.
Sat 31 October 5.00 - 7.00 pm Please book
Children (6-11) £ 9.45 Adults £4.20/£3.70
Prices include hot-dog.
Cut/dig your own Christmas tree Reserve your tree in the plantation within Wilderness Wood, to cut or dig any time you like between November 1st and Christmas Eve.
From 1 Nov
Christmas trees in the yard along with wreaths, stands, pots, foliage, mistletoe, and gifts and decorations in the barn.
From 28 November
Christmas creations. Make beautiful Christmas decorations from material gathered in the woods.
Mon 21 Dec 10.30-12 noon & 2.15-3.45pm
Tues 22 Dec 10.30-12 noon Please book
Children (6-11) £5.75 Adults £3.10
