Level 3 Forest School & Bushcraft Leader
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Published Author
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Public Liability Insured
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Arts & Event Management Degree
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First Aid Certified
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DBS Checked
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Level 3 Forest School & Bushcraft Leader 〰️ Published Author 〰️ Public Liability Insured 〰️ Arts & Event Management Degree 〰️ First Aid Certified 〰️ DBS Checked 〰️
Nature
Experience
Designer
I design outdoor experiences for organisations, charities, festivals, schools, and community spaces — built around your existing campaign, your land, and the people you want to reach. Not a packaged programme. Something made for you.
“I’m interested in what happens when bodies respond to nature — when something shifts and people remember they’re not just observing the wild, they’re part of it.”
HOW I DESIGN EVERY EXPERIENCE
Connecting with your body first
Before we look outward, we come home to ourselves. Breath, movement, sensation — whatever it takes to arrive properly in the space we're in.
Meeting the creatures of the landscape
Then we meet what's already living there — from their perspective, not ours. A beetle, a river, a root system. Something genuinely other.
Loosening into full expressive play
Then we let go — games, installations, making, moving. The kind of play that doesn't feel childish so much as necessary.
ORGANISATIONS & CHARITIES —
Your campaign,
brought outside.
Whether you've got a campaign running and need someone to bring it to life outdoors, or an existing programme with a theme that just needs the right nature experience inside it — I start with what you already have.
I'm particularly drawn to work that asks something of the body: events where your inner and outer nature feel like the same thing. Where people leave not just informed but genuinely moved by the living world around them.
FESTIVALS —
A corner of your
festival needs nature in it.
Maybe you're building a children's area and want to think about what would actually help a child develop whilst they're at a festival — not just entertain them, but genuinely expand something in them.
Which plants can be foraged or smelled for a sensory garden? What's the right structure — a giant climbing installation or a well-placed log? I know the resources and the plants that make a space genuinely sensory explosive. Let's build it together.
CommUNITY Day Hammersmith & Fulham Council with Ways of the Wild
COMMUNITY GARDENS —
Where children
bond with the land.
Looking to lead bonding experiences between parents and children through the garden? Or wanting to develop a proper forest school area where children can really get the best out of your community space?
I can advise on bug hotels and log piles, which plants work brilliantly and which are best left out, and how to build a patch that children genuinely want to disappear into — and parents want to linger in too.
Designing garden space by planting seed balls with R.O.L.E Foundation
SCHOOLS —
Forest school,
done properly.
Setting up a forest school and not sure where to start? Planning an Eco Schools event? Looking for a bonding experience that brings parents, children, and staff together in the same outdoor space?
I can help with setup, guidance, and events designed to be genuinely inclusive from the ground up — not as an afterthought. I have experience working with SEN children and build every space so that all learning needs are catered for and everyone belongs.
Designed a sensory kitchen for children with Father Nature Landscape Gardening
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY
Doesn't quite fit any of these?
Some of the best things I've made started as a conversation that didn't have a category yet. If you've got a space, a group of people, and a feeling that nature should be part of it — give me a call anyway and we'll work out what it wants to be.
A RECENT EXAMPLE —
Water Body — National Trust, Morden Hall
Connecting the health of our local waters to the health of our own bodies — through breath, movement, story, and play alongside living water. Designed for and delivered at a restored wetland site at Morden Hall, National Trust.
This is the kind of bespoke experience I design: something specific to the land, the campaign, and the people — not borrowed from anywhere else.
I'VE WORKED WITH—
Father Nature . Netflix . Marvel Entertainment . Festival Republic . WWF .
Keep Britain Tidy .Ways of the Wild .
YOUR FACILITATOR
Esmé Fay Finch —
not a corporate designer.
Better.
Her approach draws on years of genuine outdoor practice, not theory borrowed from a training manual.
She has spent the last decade working across some of the most demanding environments in sustainability and outdoor education — coordinating green production on Netflix sets, leading sustainability at Latitude Festival, and running forest school programmes for hundreds of children across London.
What she brings to design work is the same thing she brings to everything: an unhurried presence, a genuine belief in the restorative power of the natural world, and the skill to design or facilitate spaces for groups of people with very different needs.
Let's design something together.
Tell me about the space, the people, and what you're trying to do. I'll take it from there.
Fill in the form and I'll come back to you within 48 hours.
If you're looking to move quickly, you can also email directly: esmefinchconnect@gmail.com