What's on in the Woods? December 2025
- Em Munn
- 2 days ago
- 4 min read
Hello friends,
We hope you’re enjoying the turn to deep winter and the cosy long nights. Here's what's happening at Sawpit Woods in the coming weeks.
Get ready for a special time by the fire at our Winter Solstice Family Celebration. We'll play in the woods, sing songs, craft decorations and make lanterns as we celebrate the longest night of the year and returning of the light.
Our new Coppice Club returns in 2026. Join us to tend and conserve local Sussex woodlands through hands on activities with others who care for the land.
We are keen to share this magical place with more people and so are asking for festive favour. Please may you forward this newsletter to a friend or family member who might like to join us for future events and ask them to sign up to our newsletter to stay connected to happenings at Sawpit Woods.
We’ll be in touch monthly with news from the woods and upcoming happenings. We send a newsletter about once a month (ish).
Whether you’re a parent of any age, a child, a teenager, a budding woods person, a grandparent or elder wanting to connect with others and enjoy time outdoors, we can’t wait to welcome you to the woods.
For now, we're looking forward to more hibernating and restful times ahead as the year turns round again.
- Em Munn
Co-Director, Sawpit Woods
P.S. Make sure you read to the end of the newsletter for a very special poem for winter.
Upcoming Events
Discover our future gatherings which foster nature connectedness and community.
Coppice Club
Date: 10 January 2026
Time: 11:00 – 14:00
Cost: £10 per person
Our new Coppice Club returns in 2026.Join us to tend and conserve local Sussex woodlands throught hands on activties with others who care for the land.
Traditional crafts, woodland conservastion skills, nature connection & building community.
Winter Solstice Family Celebration
Date: 22 Dec 2025
Time: 11:00 – 14:00
Cost: £15 per family
Get ready for a special time by the fire.
We'll play in the woods, sing songs, craft decorations and make lanterns as we celebrate the longest night of the year and returning of the light.
We'll also make soup on the fire so remember your bowl and spoon + other food to keep you and yours warm and happy.
Mark your calendars and come celebrate the Winter Solstice with us.
Catch up with Coppice Club
For the good of the woods, and our community, we have started a new club for all ages, to enjoy time together in the woods, learning woodland skills, crafting and time outdoors.
The rains welcomed us for our first gathering at the end of November. We drank warming tea by the fire, as we shared our dreams and ideas of the woods and what the coppice club can become. What a treat it was to be there.
We played games to keep warm and celebrate life in the woods … ‘How does a butterfly poo? we asked before working together to harvest hazel by coppicing (cutting at the base of the plant) which will allow the tree to regrow. The kids enjoyed playing broomsticks with the cut poles!
Join us next time on 10th January 2026 for more making and fun in woods together. We can’t wait to welcome you!
And if you know people who might like to join, please do share.
Hire Sawpit Woods for your events
Sawpit Woods is a fantastic space to host an event, workshop or gathering and we've recently been enjoying connecting with brilliant partners to explore working together in the woods.
The woods themselves are the space, with a few additions to help make it as simple and natural as possible.
We have a fire circle with handmade oak stools made from Sawpit Woods timber, a small shed with a compost toilet, a woven hazel storage shed with coat pegs, and running water too.
In the past the space has been used for: Forest school holiday and after school sessions, school visits, birthday parties, Children's Forest sessions, weddings, coaching workshops, seasonal gatherings, baby massage groups, local community events, forest school camps, women's fires, singing workshops, community celebrations and music camps.
If you have collaboration ideas for kids, family and adult sessions and events that you’d like to see happen here or would like to hire the space yourself, please do be in touch.
A Poem for Winter
We love hearing seasonal songs and poetry - here's one of our faves for you to enjoy.
A Christmas Poem by Wendy Cope
Bring in a tree, a young Norwegian spruce, Bring hyacinths that rooted in the cold. Bring winter jasmine as its buds unfold, Bring the Christmas life into this house.
Bring red and green and gold, bring things that shine, Bring candlesticks and music, food and wine. Bring in your memories of Christmas past. Bring in your tears for all that you have lost.
Bring in the shepherd boy, the ox and ass, Bring in the stillness of an icy night, Bring in the birth, of hope and love and light. Bring the Christmas life into this house.
Wendy Cope
Thank you
We are so very grateful for your continued support.
We are excited to grow our community so please do let others know about us and share with your friends, family and colleagues.
We look forward see you in the woods again soon.
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