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Welcome back from the woods and thank you for joining us for your Nightingale adventure. As we shared on the night, this is a space for discovering more about how to continue your nature connection & nature protection journey. It’s a space of support and signposting in response to some of the questions, concerns and motivations that we hope have been provoked in you. Your well-being is as important to us as the well-being of the land we work with. By taking some simple actions, we can make a huge difference and also build a SWN community that can collectively be more powerful than the sum of our parts.

See below for our community check-ins, our advice on protocols that can be easily adopted in your lives, ways you can help the SWN journey to be more impactful and things to join in with throughout the year that you might find interesting. But firstly, if you haven’t already, we would love it if you could fill out our questionnaire and sign our guestbook! 

Your Feedback

We're trying to constantly improve and grow our events. Your feedback is so valuable to help us make the biggest impact with this work but most importantly to learn how it has impacted you. If you and your guests could take a few moments to share your insights in our feedback form we would be hugely grateful.

Guest Book

At the end of the season, we (and our Nightingales) love reading your messages! Click to open.

In the box below, please leave a sentence or more that you would like us and future SWN visitors to read on what SWN was for you along with your name and the date you came. Thank you!

Group Photos

Singing with Nightingales group photos capture the memories of your magical night of birdsong and music

RECORDINGS

Listen to recordings captured at your event and explore the sonic delights of other nights throughout the 2024 season. Available to attendees only (find the password in your follow-up email).

SWN’S CALLs TO ACTION

Thank you for getting to this chapter of the journey. Reading this section means you care enough to want to make a difference. This is a growing page where we share simple and profound ways that you can better engage with, and help support, our natural world. Your input is essential here and we would love to have your thoughts on what we should be communicating. Continuing from what was shared around the fire, here are some starting actions we would encourage you to take that will support you to enjoy the nature around you and help improve the biodiversity of this land.

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Eat Organic
Eat Organic

Eat organic wherever possible. Support farmers who don’t use chemical fertilizers, or pesticides and are working to create a nature-friendly farming system. Seek out your local Community Supported Agriculture Farm (CSA) for the best produce that supports your local community of organic growers.

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Green Your Finances
Green Your Finances

Do you want your money invested in the solutions to the climate crisis, or the businesses fuelling the crisis? After all, what is the point of saving for retirement in a world in crisis? Are your pension schemes financing new oil and gas? Likewise who you bank with. If you switch to a green bank you can very quickly move your money out of fossil fuel support for good. We recommend these two platforms to help advise on your options and learn more about who is looking after your money and who isn’t: Switch It Green & Make My Money Matter.

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Eat Wild Venison
Eat Wild Venison

Eat more wild venison! If your busy life means you can’t become an apex predator support someone who can. By eating wild-caught meat you can bring some of the richness of the land into your diet and help protect our native flora and other fauna too. We have ballooning populations of wild deer that are ravishing our woodlands and sensitive ecosystems. If you want to find out more we recommend Deer Box and this page on the issues surrounding deer in the UK today.

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Engage with Nature
Engage with Nature

Seek out simple opportunities to engage more deeply with nature. The next time you go on a long walk, perhaps walk for a bit in silence, slow your walking pace by half and spend time really noticing what is around you. There are a growing number of organisations that offer nature connection or teach you to forage and learn about the plants around you. Sam is involved in some of his own, check them out here.

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Notice the Wonder
Notice the Wonder

Spend time noticing the wonder that is all around us in our natural world. Wherever you live, we invite you to continue enjoying the bird song around you. Commit to taking 5 minutes each day to put down everything and to sit, listen and breathe. You might like to download the Merlin Bird ID app to your phone to identify who you are listening to. If you have more time you might want to ask yourself “What can I see?” “What else can I hear?” “What can I touch?” and “What can I smell?” The non-human world is there all the time ready for us to engage.

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Join a dedicated online SWN community bank swapping party run by Switchit.green! They will be guiding SWN alumni through the very simple process of upgrading your bank. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified.

Community Check-ins

This season we are offering an online check-in circle for attendees to open a safe space for discussion and reflection on what emerges following your time with us in the woods. It will be taking place on 4th June from 5pm-6pm and will be hosted on Zoom by Sam Lee.

This is only for those who have been on this year’s experience.

WIDENING our reach

The SWN mission aims to grow a diverse and inclusive community of nature appreciators and defenders.

Our vision over the next 5 years is to grow the scope of our artistic and environmental impact to make sure these sell-out shows aren’t only appreciated by the ones who can afford and have the means to access them but also by those whose socio-demographic status has historically excluded them from such opportunities.

Please get in contact if you have connections with musicians, funding partners or audiences that are under-represented at these types of cultural events. We would love to hear from you!

sWN Conservation Days

In January and February, we head back to our Sussex site to do some brush clearance and coppicing work. This free-to-join day with lunch included involves lots of brush cutting and scalloping out overgrown areas making sure the Nightingale's habitat isn’t overgrowing, becoming too tall and ‘leggy’ and thus inhospitable to them when they return in April. This day is for SWN alumni or ticket holders only as we are limited to around 30 people. Information will be shared here and emailed when the next date is confirmed.

Nightingale habitat includes blackthorn hedges and coppiced woodland

"Singing with Nightingales is an adventure you don’t imagine possible in this day and age. But it is possible, and fantastic. So you should all go!"