About the workshop

Saturday 23rd November 2024 at 10.am to 12noon

Come and enjoy assembling some wood from the Wyre Forest to create a unique Christmas reindeer of your own, to take home and look after over the festive period!

 The session will take place at St George’s Farm, Tanner’s Hill, Bewdley DY12 2LS.

Please note

• This course is suitable for beginners.

• No level of experience or ability is required

• This event is suitable for adults or families with children over 6 years old, a maximum of 2 children per adult please. Please pay for adults only at this stage and £5 per child will be payable on the day please. We will ask you for details of accompanying children before the event. You will be responsible for supervising your own children.

• This workshop is practical by nature, and participants will need to have a reasonable level of fitness and mobility to take part and enjoy the activities.
• This will take place either outside or in one our farmyard buildings. Participants must ensure they are appropriately dressed for the activity. WCLT reserves the right to prevent a participant from taking part in the activity if they are not wearing suitable clothes and footwear.
• If you book a place on a workshop, but are then no longer able to attend, you will not be entitled to a refund. If you would like to transfer your booking to another workshop, we shall make reasonable efforts (subject to availability) to rearrange the booking, but shall not provide any guarantee to this effect.
• WCLT reserves the right to cancel a workshop. This will only happen in exceptional circumstances. Those with pre-booked places will be offered a choice of alternative dates.

More information

The Wyre Community Land Trust helps manage and conserve the wildlife and habitats of the Wyre Forest and provides opportunities for the local community to learn and engage with the natural environment and heritage crafts.

This Reindeer-making workshop is part of our Ruskin Club nature and heritage crafts programme. Workshops are held in Ruskin Land, in the heart of the Wyre Forest, and are led by the Wyre Community Land Trust’s craft tutors. 

The Ruskin Club is inspired by John Ruskin (1819-1900), the Victorian artist and social critic, who’s vision for Ruskin Land was for it to be ‘beautiful, peaceful and fruitful’. Ruskin wanted everyone to see and enjoy the unspoiled, inspirational beautify of the world, both in nature and in art. He argued that work should be creative and so he influenced the revival of rural industries and handicrafts.