Georgie Chadwick
Wildlings Holiday Club
Georgie’s passion for working with people, arts and the natural world has been running theme throughout her life. Whilst studying, Georgie started a ‘soft activism’ collective that taught people activism values through craft based learning. The collective took the project across the UK, fundraising for a number of social impact causes such as the refugee crisis, plastic free campaigns and ending period poverty.
Georgie volunteered with Refugee Women’s Centre where she had the opportunity to support displaced families in Calais and Dunkirk. She helped with the distribution of emergency aid as well as providing enrichment activities. The experience with Refugee Women’s Centre helped her to recognise her passion for working with young people as she saw the relief that nature, creation and community provided.
Shortly after, Georgie became fascinated with the mental health benefits that nature could provide. Georgie became a keen forager, kayaker and walker. This motivated her to live more at one with nature and she moved onto an off-grid community based in Cornwall.
Here, Georgie learnt about living on a permaculture farm. She gained skills in natural building, growing and cared for the many fruit trees there. On the community she began a project creating access for marginalised gender groups to learn skills in woodworking and metal work.
Georgie found that living off grid helped her become more in tune with her body and mind. She saw first-hand how deeply nourishing non-conventical education spaces were for the young people who lived on the community. This sparked an interest in engaging young people with growing, risky-play and creation.
Georgie has been working within children’s mental health sector. She applies a holistic and trauma informed approach to her practise. Georgie has worked in a variety of settings from working within Blue Health incentives to working in schools supporting refugee children and those with complex learning and emotional needs.
After living in Bristol, Georgie returned to the Welsh countryside where she grew up. As a teenager she spent a lot of time in The Forest of Dean and is excited to explore the area as an adult.