If you look after someone in Brighton & Hove with mental health challenges and would like to:

• Experience the calming, relaxing and reinvigorating benefits of being outdoors in nature

• Have fun and relax in a range of beautiful natural settings

• Connect with others in a similar situation to you in the great wide outdoors?

then join us for our Natural Retreat Days for Mental Health Carers

These bi-monthly days will be designed around your needs and will offer a chance to spend time in nature, in a group, with other Carers, experiencing the wellbeing effects of nature connection and getting a break away from the stresses of the City and everyday life.  You will have the chance to choose from a range of activities such as wild art, conservation work, food foraging and cooking, mindfulness and gentle meditation exercises, guided walks, shepherding, and craft / green woodworking activities.

Activities will take place at Saddlescombe Farm and a range of other beautiful locations in and around the South Downs.

Drinks, lunch and minibus transport from central Brighton will be provided.

Dates for 2025/6 are as follows:

Wednesday 6th August 2025

Tuesday 7th October 2025

Wednesday 10th December 2025

Tuesday 10th February 2026

Wednesday 15th April 2026

Join us for one, more or all of the days. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis so please contact us for more information and to book your space.

These days are funded by Brighton and Hove City Council.