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Willow Techniques and Construction
- Event type:
- Training event
- Event dates:
- 30/01/2009 to 30/01/2009
- Location:
- Coleridge Primary School, Crouch End Hill, London, N8 8DN
- Price:
- £35 LEEF members, £45 others
Join us at a Coleridge Primary School for this fantastic opportunity to learn about all aspects of working with willow. This is a practical training day that will enable you to use willow techniques in your sessions.
Course Trainer: Angela Bullock and Georgia Wisbey
Programme:
10.00 Introduction to growing willow, willow species, coppicing and pollarding.
11.00 Practical activity: Learn how to make willow craft objects.
1.00 Lunch.
1.45 Practical activity: Large-scale willow construction – build a wigwam.
4.00 Information about willow suppliers, species and activity handouts.
PLEASE BRING: A good pair of Secateurs’, twine/string, gloves/fingerless, small trowel & kneeling pad if required, together with suitable clothing for outdoors work.
Course suitable for: environmental educators, play workers, teachers, people who work outdoors with volunteers and event workshop facilitators.
Contact Details
Contact name: Anna Portch
Contact telephone: 020 7803 4281
Contact email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
