Volunteers’ Week 2025 at Horton
Published: 27/06/2025
For Volunteers’ Week in June, we gave all our volunteers a thank you card, a personalised mug, a key ring and some chocolates.
To celebrate all their incredible work, our volunteers were treated with a special trip to Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales.
When we arrived in Clapham, we were guided around a nature trail, where we could admire the interesting sculptures and the redwood trees, and spot rabbits jumping through the fields. We found a clearing between the trees, where we learnt how to light a fire with flint and steel, cotton wool, and Vaseline, and we used our new skills to start a warm and smokey campfire. We boiled water over the fire to make plenty of cups of tea, coffee, and mochas, before tucking into our packed lunches. One of our guides, Rosie, taught us how to whittle sticks to make shapes, and we gave it a go, making wands, a cricket bat, and mushrooms, before moving on to a natural lip balm and epsom salt workshop. We were able to create our own lip balms using natural ingredients and added essential oils for fragrance, and mixed bags of epsom salt with dried flowers and herbs to enjoy in a relaxing bath once we got home from our day out in the woods.
Everyone enjoyed their day out, which we finished by toasting marshmallows, fruit, and corn on the cobs over the fire. It was refreshing to spend time in nature, and we all came away with new skills and our own homemade craft projects to take home.
