Basketmakers' Challenge Afternoon and Pop Up Pub
Sat, 22 Mar
|Wild Weald Woodland
Join us for a fun afternoon that entwines wild basketry and cordage skills with seasonal woodland experiences, such as birch tapping and foraging. You can join us for the afternoon and/or evening supper.
Time & Location
22 Mar 2025, 14:00 – 18:00
Wild Weald Woodland, Cinderford Lane, Hellingly, Hailsham BN27 4HL, UK
About the event
The Basketmakers' Challenge was born from Pam Gimblett's passion for using the woodland's boughs, stems and plants to create a host of practical items from materials that we all have access to in the countryside. The structure of the event draws on Pam and Francis Gimblett's 25-year experience of hosting fun, interactive occasions that bring activity, information and humour together.
After a welcome drink, drawn from our birch glade, you'll forage for the materials needed for the event. Then Pam will impart the skills needed to transform willow and bramble into baskets, and a variety of plants into cordage.
As the event progresses, you'll partake in tastings of woodland cordials and shrubs, have a go at birch tapping, and take part in other fun woodland activities, as time allows. Depending on how the season progresses, the woodland should be with its full carpet of anemone.
You'll also have the option…
Tickets
Challenge Afternoon & Supper
This ticket gives you the Basketmakers' Challenge Afternoon and Evening Supper
£48.00+£1.20 ticket service feeSale endedChallenge Afternoon
This ticket gives you the Basketmakers' Challenge Afternoon. Please stay on for our pop-up pub, but you may wish to book the Supper to avoid disappointment.
£30.00+£0.75 ticket service feeSale endedPop Up Pub - Supper Only
This ticket gives you the evening Supper after the Basketmakers' Challenge Afternoon.
£20.00+£0.50 ticket service feeSale ended
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