grow with us through work experience
join our kinfolk team to gain valuble work experience learning firsthand from being immersed in a well established and quality provision with an experienced and passionate team who live and breathe their work,
we have a team of qualified facilitators as well as a work experience programme through which we have offered guidance and mentorship. we have always opened the gates to our forest and offered support to people along the way. having started workshops and trainings last year, enabling others is something we are passionate about.
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opportunities
work experience
work experience on our forest camps is an ad-hoc opportunity current and prospective trainees on our forest school leader training to gain hands-on experience. detailed information about work experience on our forest camps can be found here.
practice session placements
practice session placements are for trainees or newly qualified forest school facilitators on our forest school leader training to gain an immersive and short/medium/long-term experience in facilitating high quality forest school provision and carry out their practice sessions to meet the requirements of our forest school leader training.
detailed information about work placements can be found here.
“it's difficult to put the experience into words as it was a feeling...but the feeling was one of warmth, welcome, safety, calm, nurture, fun, play and learning and this was just for me. as a former teacher, teacher trainer and facilitator with a huge amount of experience working with children of all ages, the experience at the camp was like nothing i had experienced before even having worked and supported at other types of holiday camps. the mix of the experience, wisdom and outlook of the staff, the close and supportive bond between them, the serene setting and getting to know the children new and old to kin, left me open, curious and full for weeks and months to come and confirmed i was making the right career change choice. it changed my attitude to what a work place and team work could look and feel like, and i of course had the privilege of being able to witness the magic of forest school unfolding over the course of the camp - activities, games, stories, artwork, structures and ideas initiated and imagined by the children for themselves alone. this is the essence of child led learning and it was beautiful to be a part of it - i highly recommend a work experience placement with kin for anyone on their forest school journey. “
tania, august 2025
trainee facilitators receive…
partially funded places on our annual workshop programme and other learning opportunities
hands on experience and mentorship from experienced facilitators
a supportive, inspirational team of co-workers
the possibility of paid work on an ad hoc/permanent basis
*depending on whether you are on the kin forest school leader training or not
applications for work experience & internship opportunities will be considered on a first come first served basis. priority is given to past and present trainees on our forest school leader training. if our placements are full, we will make arrangements for people to join once the current person has completed so it is always best to get applications in early as you may have to wait for space to become available. to apply, please send the following:
an email with a brief cover letter outlining why you are applying for work experience or internship with us and why you think you are the right person for the opportunity - we are looking for people who are pursuing a career in ‘forest school’ and have a vision (even if this changes along the way) of how they want to implement their training post completion
your cv