About Wild+Kind

Where this comes from

Wild+Kind grew from a simple question: what would it take for worthwhile outdoor experiences to become easier to begin and something young people and families could genuinely return to?

It brings together lived experience of navigating support systems, more than a decade of nature-based programme and partnership development, and the expertise of people working across outdoor practice, trauma, childhood and family support.

Wild+Kind is being built at the point where those different forms of knowledge meet.

“People don’t arrive neutral. Many are already spending energy just to be there, arriving into services, spaces, and experiences shaped by what’s come before. I’ve lived that, and I’ve seen it in the work. How often being there can ask more than people have to give.

So the question for me became: how do we design experiences where energy flows the other way? Where taking part gives energy, rather than takes it away. Wild+Kind comes from that.” 

Rosie Naylor, Founder