Plant and Protect, Celebrate and Connect Trees and People.

Ancient and Sacred Trees and supporting our Wild Spirit Woods CIC (Community Interest Company number 16026008).

Life can be stressful and feel meaningless, a daily grind that we lose ourselves in. Even the best of us can end up wondering who we are, what are we doing and why. We can feel lonely and isolated. Our mental and physical health can suffer. Environmental degradation, pollution, climate change leave us feeling helpless and fearful for our future. It is so easy to lose sight of what is good in the world.

Do you wish it were different?!?

Volunteer run not for profit project Ancient and Sacred Trees was founded in January 2014 protecting and planting trees. We protect and plant trees in the UK and Tropics, and celebrate mental health and wellbeing. We are based at Wild Spirit Woods in Cheshire, England. We support the Wld Spirit Woods community interest company. This is born out of our community, set up by our founder, caring for land in the heart of the British Isles in Cheshire on the edge of the Peak District.

Over A Decade Celebrating Roots Old and New

We dispel the negative noise of social media celebrating good mental health and wellbeing by celebrating the beauty and wonder of our wild world through trees. In the last 4 years we have also planted 6000+ trees in the Tropics and UK while supporting tree defenders and communities. Our tree planting certificates, tee shirts and more online restore landscapes and biodiversity while protecting people from slavery and child exploitation in the Tropics and rewilding one of the most nature deleted countries in the world in the UK.

We Make a Difference!

Wild Spirited Woodland, Wildlife and Wellbeing

Wild Spirit Woods CIC is now a Nature First haven for our wild friends. The CIC is host to us and some other wonderful friends including Staffordshire Moorlands Forest School.

(A Community Interest Company is set up for social good. It is half way between a charity and a normal company. The assets are protected forever but it can trade and gain an income like an ordinary business. )

We run many activities for free or discounted rates at our on-the-ground-home in South Cheshire. We also work off site to bring the wild world to people who otherwise might not get chance to experience our services. Plus we also cater to Special Needs children and adults. We run volunteer community and conservation activities to care for Wild Spirit Woods.

How Do We Make A Difference To YOU?

We provide experiences that take you away from stress, anxiety and self criticism and in to a supportive space of peace, relaxation and self acceptance. Our community includes not just humans, but also plants trees and supports our wild friends including animals, birds and others. We also provide opportunities to deepen your personal spiritual (in whatever ever way that means to you) connection with yourself and the world around you.

We have an especial focus on neurodiversity, mental health, young people and those marginalised on the edges of society. We are neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ friendly. Our founder and many in our wider team are autistic and/or ADHD. The directors of the CIC also have hidden disabilities. The team are trained professionals in teaching/coaching, therapies, arts, mentoring, with many decades of experience between them.

We empower you to take your positive place in the world. We use our therapeutic skills of nature connection, the arts, mindfulness, meditation, bushcraft and more. Our events enable experiences that bring you to places of magic and mystery, deep relaxation and wild wonder within a community of likeminded folks. Our courses and workshops create opportunities to learn and develop skills, having fun, while providing places to put them into practice.

We don't have to be religious to explore our soul full selves, we just need to create the conditions where we can learn to open our hearts and trust ourselves. To enable this to happen we create safe supportive spaces where people can just sit and be. We know that happy people make the world a better place.

Welcome to our green and growing CommuniTree.

Make A Difference Within and Without, Walk the Way of the Woods!

See our membership benefits on each tier. PLUS if you pay a year upfront you get the perks listed below!

There is a place by our fire for YOU!

Wilding wishes from

Amanda Claire Vesty AST founder and co director of Wild Spirit Woods CIC, Simon Bamford co director Wild Spirit Woods CIC, Andy Wild Patron of Wild Spirit Woods, and all the communiTree Volunteers!

Benefits for Paying A Year Upfront:

Pay for the year upfront and you will receive

•         Appropriate membership level and discounts

•         A personalised printed certificate celebrating your support

•         Be added to our Role of Honour on our website

•         £80 or more and receive a lovely specially handcrafted wooden gift

•         A tree planting certificate documenting your planting of 24 trees in the Tropics plus 2 broadleaved trees in the UK at the end of the year.

Donate

Of course, you don't have to take out a membership, you can just donate a ‘tree’ helping care for our business page and website celebrating as well as protecting and planting trees. We call this "beauty as activism" because people only protect what they love.

All funds raised are paid directly into our Wild SPirit Woods Community Interest bank account.

The more we celebrate the more we spread love and encourage others to do the same!