Woodcraft Folk

We are a movement for children and young people, open to everyone from birth to adult. Woodcraft Folk offers a place where children will grow in confidence, learn about the world and start to understand how to value our planet and each other.

Find your Local Group

Get Involved

Our weekly groups are at the heart of our activities for children and young people....

Volunteer with Us

Give your time and talents to help our groups, projects and campaigns

Start a Woodcraft Folk group

Our 8 step process to setting up a Woodcraft Folk group Be a part of...

Upcoming events

From national camps to bushcraft sessions and volunteer training sessions we have events for everyone

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Shaping Our Future. Scottish Gathering around 100 Objects 2026

As we stand at the end of a milestone year, we are celebrating and looking...

100Objects, Robert Owen, Scotland, Scottish Gathering

Bridging generations, remembering the Holocaust

‘My Father was a holocaust survivor, came over on the Kindertransport…’Diane Fairfax Holocaust memorial has...

100Objects, Birmingham, Diane Fairfax

Outside the exhibition at Four Corners Art Gallery

From Foundry to Folk. Woodcraft in Birmingham

Our ‘100 Objects Spanning 100 Years’ exhibition moves from London to Birmingham, launch event Thursday...

100Objects, Birmingham

Learning about photography and archives at Cuham

Folk Return to its London roots

Enjoy Woodcraft Folk’s story as it unfolds through objects, sounds, images and stories. The story...

100Objects, London

It’s a wonderful place for young people to learn and grow into thoughtful young adults.

Fantastic, amazing for kids. Can’t recommend highly enough.

This is the best way to make lifelong friends when you have children.

Young people supported each week

Young people reached through our outreach work every year

Bed nights at our centres each year

Groups around the UK

HELP US TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE

Woodcraft Folk is a voluntary organisation and we rely on a network of thousands of members who support us with their time, their expertise and their financial contributions.

VOLUNTEER WITH US

Whether you’d like to help out with a local group or support one of our time-limited projects behind the scenes, apply now and we’ll match you to a volunteering role that’s right for you

GIVE A DONATION

Support Woodcraft Folk with a one-off gift or by making a regular donation, helping us support our volunteers and reach more young people through our youth work programmes

SPREAD THE WORD

Our activities for young people promote our values of peace, equality, friendship and social justice - help us share our message of education for social change

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We are Woodcraft Folk and we change the world

We support our members to celebrate and question the world around them. We enable them to bring about the changes that they want in order to create a more equal and caring world.