Wild Harvest School
Candle Making Workshop
Candle Making Workshop
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Come to Wild Harvest School and learn all about creating your own light.
During the dark February months there is nothing nicer nor more empowering than creating your own light by learning how to make candles.
We have chosen that special time at Candlemass/Imbolc to hold this wonderful cosy candle making workshop, where we can look forward to the coming Spring. In 2025 we are lucky as it falls exactly on a Sunday!
In this short day course Di will explain all about the components of a candle and how you can replicate these using various weird and wonderful alternatives that you can find around the home and in Nature. Having lived off-grid for three years Di spent a long time learning 'what burns well' to create light!
You will get to have a play with some of these different wick and fuel material combinations in addition to making a variety of candle types of the 'normal' variety.
Thanks to a donation of candle wax by a lovely follower Charlee; each guest will make a few different colours and sizes of candles in some pretty and original containers - this is the perfect way to use up all those little pots or old glass candle holders and jars you have been saving!
Each guest will also get their own 1kg bag of wax and a length of wick to take home so that they can continue their candle making experimentation into the future.
There are just six spaces available on our Candle Workshop in February
- Date: Sunday 2nd Feb. 2025
- Time: 11am - 3pm (please bring a packed lunch, refreshments are provided)
- Venue: Wild Harvest School, in the rural outskirts of York, YO424TA
Why Choose Wild Harvest School for Your Candle Making Workshop?
- We have been teaching foraging and self-sufficiency skills for 20 years
- Featured on the BBC and Channel 4 and in National Media and Shows
- Qualified Adult Ed Teacher so the quality of your learning experience is second to none.
- Highly reviewed - we have 247 fab reviews and counting!
- 100% Reliable - we never cancel anything.
- Fully insured.
- Easy on site free parking.
- Proper loo.
- Central to the U.K
- Refreshments are included.
Help Us Help Others...
For every guest booking on this course a donation will be made to our Social Responsibility Policy in lieu of the donated wax. Each year we offer free activities to a different charity. (Last year it was a charity for visually impaired young people, the year before we ran an activity for local Brownie groups and several years ago we did a big refugee mission to Europe. For 2025 we are looking to work with Smile a local charity that consolidates the efforts of local businesses for greater local charitable action).
If you have any questions about this Candle Workshop please email hello@wildharvest.org
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Where are you based?
We are based in the rural outskirts of York, 12 miles from the city, but we.do work all over. If you are coming here for your glamping, activities or walks/course then we can be found on Google maps HERE
Can I Bring My Dog?
To the wild food walks yes, well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. To the tipi site... Sorry we love animals but we. have a free range sheep, hens and an old labrador. Plus we have a policy of no animals in the units to keep them feeling fresh and ok for allergy sufferers. We are down the road from Storwood Kennels if you need pet boarding.
What if I Can't Make It?
We know you wouldn't want us to cancel on you and hope that you see we book tutors, organise resources and block time out for bookings so we allow you to sell your space on, or gift it to a friend. Or we can offer you online courses and ebooks instead.
What Areas Do You Cover?
If you want to book us to come to you...Our radius for attended walks, courses and activities bookings is approximately from Newcastle in the North to Nottingham in the South, Hull in the East to Manchester in the West. if in doubt just ask in the chat box or enquiry form.
Why Choose Wild Harvest?
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Long Established
We have stood the test of time. Established in 2006 we are nearly 20 years old! We have survived pandemics and recessions and are still here. Read our reviews as testimony to how hard we work to keep you happy! Others have come and gone but we are still strong through our professionalism, quality of service for the price, and resilience.
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Support Female-Led Independent Small Business.
Wild Harvest was set up by a single mum of three... slowly building a business around her children, without any help. No grants, no Daddy's purse strings - just hard work and dedication and determination to provide affordable sustainable education.
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Reliable - Book Us and We WILL Be There!
Over all our time we have not cancelled a single session. If we commit to being there we will be there. I cringe when I see other teaching businesses cancel for personal reasons regularly letting people down and I truly believe in honouring your booking with my effort to get us there.
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Quality of Service Combined with Value For Money
Here you will find qualified thorough tutors, and natural, local materials yet we remain more affordable than our competitors due to our mission to provide sustainable education to ALL. This affordable quality in offering services that Don't Cost the Earth is what has kept us going for two decades!