We are looking for your ideas!
Do you care about the future of WWOOF UK?
We are currently undergoing a WWOOF UK strategy review, and we’re looking for your help.
In essence, we’re taking a good look at ourselves, and asking some important questions, including:
What are our ultimate goals and missions?
How can we improve on what we are already doing to achieve our goals?
Where should we focus our efforts and energies?
The answers to these questions will help us to build our strategy for 2025 and beyond.
But we can’t do this without you! We value the thoughts and opinions of our members (and non-members who support WWOOF!) immensely, and want to gather as much feedback as we can from you all, to include in our strategic thinking.
In order to gather your thoughts, we’ve created a short survey. The survey should take between 5 and 10 minutes to complete, and the results will be used to inform our strategy for the coming year, and into the future.
To complete the survey, please click here.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts with us! We look forward to sharing our progress with all of you later in the spring.
WWOOF Certificate of Recognition
WWOOF UK can provide WWOOFers with a certificate of participation on request. This documentation can be a noteworthy addition to your CV, showcasing your practical skills and commitment to sustainable agriculture. You can easily share this accomplishment on professional platforms like LinkedIn, establishing a credible profile that highlights your dedication to environmental stewardship and hands-on learning in the field.
Let us know by filling in this form.
There is also a membership card and a receipt that you can download at any time in your profile, you can find this under the ‘membership’ section.
Welcome to our new hosts
These lovely hosts have joined our UK WWOOF community since the last newsletter was published and we hope their experiences of hosting will be as rewarding and fulfilling as those described in the articles we share from our experienced hosts.
Battleford Hall: Ruth and Clive have been running this 30 acre sustainable smallholding in Devon for 20 years. WWOOFers would have the opportunity to help with looking after the pigs, sheep and poultry. There’s also a large kitchen garden, orchards and coppices. WWOOFers with an interest in forestry and woodworking will be particularly well-suited.
Daisy Farm: A mixed smallholding producing organic cider in Nottinghamshire where wildlife is actively encouraged to come and stay. You’ll find chickens and bees as well as breeding ewes grazing the orchard. Opportunities for taking part in pruning fruit trees, helping with lambing, growing vegetables and harvesting fruit and vegetables.
The Glyn: A 35 acre smallholding on the Welsh borders half covered by broadleaved woodland with a stream running right by the house. Rare breed Hill Radnor sheep graze the pasture and on the rest of the land you’ll find ponds, a large veggie garden, an orchard and greenhouse.
Trigon Farm: A 20 acre permaculture farm started in 2020. Trees have been planted and no-dig beds created for growing vegetables and flowers. Produce is sold to the local community via veggie boxes collected from the farm. WWOOFers will have the opportunity to experience feeding the animals (lambs, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks) collecting the eggs and learning about running a small business.
Quartz Valley: Biodynamic and permaculture principles are used to create a system of abundance from this 22 acre valley in Carmarthenshire. Aiming to generate all of their power and food from the land, Jake and Zara are well on the way to achieving this goal. WWOOFers can learn how to develop and manage systems with animals which include Guernsey cows, chickens and pigs.
Keep in touch with us
We’ve created a page where you and your friends can sign-up to receive our newsletters as a way keep in touch with us. Those with an active membership will receive our newsletters automatically but we also produce a non-members’ edition to help those thinking about joining and for staying in touch even when your membership has expired.
Share this link to sign-up to our newsletter.
And last but not least….
We’d love to hear your stories, your events, your news! It’s you who make our newsletter the colourful, relevant and engaging read that we all enjoy at each of the seasonal festivals. You can send your valuable contributions to: editor@wwoof.org.uk
Also, as you know, social media is a great way to help promote WWOOFing and show the world what we do. If you take photos or videos and share them on your socials, include hashtag #wwoofuk and tag us @wwoofuk so we can share them too.
Many thanks for being part of the vibrant and buzzing WWOOF community in the UK, we really appreciate your support.
