A Forest School for neurodivergent folk (formally or self-diagnosed).
21/03/2026
We are over the moon 🌝 to receive funding support from this year! We have been working hard to make session accessible for participants and sustainable for the team and this support will go a long way! Don’t forget to sign up for our April workshop by searching One for All Forest School on EventBrite and please message us if cost is a barrier.
Thank you so much the volunteers who came to our allotment clear up session today! Follow us to see the progress of our allotment project. What a beautiful start to 2026 ✨🌳🐞🍄🟫🪱🐦⬛🌲✨
27/01/2026
Book now on EventBrite! What Three Words location: Army.Films.Cliff
We can’t wait to see you there 🌳✨
20/01/2026
We are trialing our workshop and allotment sessions bookings through EventBright. We hope this will make things easier for everyone and grow our wonderful community 🌳✨
25/11/2025
Solstice Celebrations Workshop on Sunday December 21st 11AM-1PM OR 2PM-4PM
Celebrate the solar new year with us 🌳✨🔥. We will make some solstice winter decorations and enjoy some tea, stories, and some cooking around the fire over the Yule Log. Bundle up and celebrate the shortest day of the year with us as we look forward to the longer days ahead. ✨🌳
Link in bio to sign up! Concessionary rates may be available please enquire. We can’t wait to see you ☺️
On a cloudy day like today, we longingly look back on the flower presses we made in the summer 🌺💐🌼
A great example of the fun activities you can expect to take part in at One For All Forest School. For fun activities like this, click our link in our bio to see details for upcoming Forest School Workshops.
Video narrated by our founding director Leah.
Step my step on how to make ink from (dried) Oak Galls:
Ingredients
• 1 pint water
• 2 oz dried oak galls
• 1 oz ferrous sulphate
• 1/2 oz Gum Arabic
Instructions
1. Crush the dried ok galls ideally using a mortar and pestle. The finer the grind, the better, as this increases surface area, helping to release the most possible tannic and Gallic acids. Or as we did we crushed the galls in a bag.
2. Pour the water over the crushed oak galls and let them soak for 24 hours.
3. Strain the solution through cheesecloth and discard the crushed galls.
4. Add the ferrous sulphate and stir.
Within seconds, the mixture will turn black and your ink is almost ready.
5. Now add the Gum Arabic and stir thoroughly.
6. Store in a sturdy glass bottle, with a reasonably wide mouth so you can dip your pen in easily or draw up the ink into a resale cartridge.
We created pens from feathers we foraged, with the ends cut at a slight angle.
Oak galls are abnormal growths on oak trees, primarily caused by gall wasps that lay eggs in the tree’s tissues, triggering the plant to form a protective structure around the larvae. Isn’t nature fascinating!
Play is a vital part of our well-being as adults. It’s proven to reduce stress, improves mood, and builds on our skills such as creativity and problem-solving. It can also strengthens social bonds and relationships by fostering authentic connections and communication, as play has no agenda.
Allow yourself to escape the demands of daily life, shift your perspective and build resilience, get outside and play today!
For our Wonderful Winter Workshops see link in bio 🌳✨
We are so privileged to be based in Bevendean Community Gardens! This is what you can expect when visiting us. We can’t wait to see you all ☺️
22/09/2025
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined us over the summer! 🌳✨
Link in bio for further details for our exciting Winter Workshops
11/09/2025
The Pearce Foundation opened its doors for the first time after the summer with a focus on one of our core priorities: supporting grassroots Sussex organisations working at the heart of their communities.
We hosted a peer funding writing room session with skill-sharer Caz O’Kane and two brilliant charities we first met through BrightonSoup: Jay from The Village Food Bank, Brighton and Leah from One For All Forest School
We love everything about Brighton Soup, so when we were offered the chance to support them and the pitching charities in June, we made a donation. We were so impressed by what we heard that, staying true to our “more than money” model, we offered all the pitchers the opportunity for some bespoke support. This included a peer-led session to strengthen their fundraising skills, exploring the what, why and how of what they do.
Together we touched on the value of Theory of Change as a framework, explored impact, considered wider activities, and celebrated the many ways they support their communities. For us, it was also a reminder of how powerful peer support can be in building sustainability for small charities.
Here’s what Jay and Leah had to say:
Leah:
“The session helped me break down what I need to do for my next funding application. Putting everything into bite-sized, more manageable pieces felt less overwhelming.”
Jay:
“Exploring our purpose and how that translates into funding applications has been really useful. We also looked at ways to build up our evidence base and measure our impact, as well as how we can support our members in other ways.”
To find out more about their brilliant work, follow The Village Food Bank Brighton : https://www.thevillagefoodbank.org/ and
One for all Forest School: https://oneforallforestschool.org/