• When: Saturday 3 May 2025

  • Who: Families

  • Location: The Wilderness Foundation, Unit 2 Whitbreads Business Centre, Whitbreads Farm Lane, Chatham Green, Essex, CM3 3FE

  • Cost: £5 per person attending (under 5’s go free)

  • Closing date: Monday 31 March 2025

Earn your Young Achievers Nature Badge with VICTA at The Wilderness Foundation!

VICTA is off to the Wilderness Foundation in Essex for a Young Achievers Nature activity day! Join us as we head out into the centre’s 40-acre woodland, where we will take part in a variety of nature-based activities that will connect your senses with the great outdoors.

Using the exclusive Education Centre, we will start with investigating the Wellbeing Garden, creating potions with what we find. After this, we will start the ‘Sensory Scavenger Hunt’ as we walk to the woods to enjoy some hot-chocolate and marshmallows. Following lunch and some free time, we will end the day with woodland games altogether and award our new Nature Young Achievers with their Nature badges! As part of the day, primary school aged children with a vision impairment will also earn their VICTA Young Achievers Nature badge in a day and continue their way to completing their medal at the end of the year. (Siblings will also earn a Super Siblings certificate and pin-badge for being, well… super!). Special personalised Braille certificates for the Young Achievers will follow soon after the activity.

To find out more about the VICTA Young Achievers Award and how you can get started, follow this link – Young Achievers Award – victastudents.org.uk

For further information about the Wilderness Foundation, follow this link – Wilderness Foundation | Transforming lives through nature |

Please note, VICTA’s Young Achievers Award is aimed at those following a primary school curriculum however if your child is outside of this, we welcome your application to attend the day. Priority will be given to those families with children of a primary school age.

Why apply?

  • A great opportunity to meet other like-minded families
  • Spark an interest in nature in your VI child
  • Earn the VICTA Young Achievers Nature badge by the end of the activity
  • Increase your child’s mobility in a safe and supportive outdoor environment

Who can apply?

Applicants must be:

  • Registered or registrable blind or partially sighted
  • At least 5 years old on 3 May 2025
  • Aged 17 or under on 3 May 2025
  • Under 5’s go free
Apply for the Young Achievers Nature Family Day at The Wilderness Foundation

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