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Bewilderwood – Healthy, Sustainable FUN

Tuesday, 08 Sep, 2009 0

 

BeWILDerwood is a beautiful adventure play park set in environmentally sensitive old woodland and deep marshland. The park was designed to be a responsible and sustainable tourist attraction. BeWILDerwood is owned and loved by Tom Blofeld, who created the park with Simon Egan.
 
The play is healthy, non-competitive outdoor fun, involving zip-wires, slides, reed mazes and den building. A perfect cure for the playstation generation. Parents are encouraged to play alongside their children. The structures (and the food) are organic whenever possible.
 
But that is half the story. Within the park are little brightly painted tiny villages too small for normal children. These are the homes of the Boggles and Twiggles – charming tribes of tiny folk, while Mildred, a vegetarian Crocklebog, snorts happily in the magical lake.
 
A book, “A Boggle of BeWILDerwood,” written by Tom Blofeld, allows each child, if they choose, to follow a journey made by Swampy, the lead character. This is the first book in a series.
 
Sustainability in BeWILDerwood:
BeWILDerwood was designed from its very first concept to have a light environmental touch and carry its sustainable approach throughout every level of the organisation. This has now been translated into the spirit of ‘holistic environmentalism’ bywords within the business for looking at every potential environmental impact both internally and through supply partners and working to reduce it.
 
This holistic approach has ensured that nothing has been left untouched – from food sold on site being sourced within Norfolk, to reclaimed lifeboats, converted to electric, delivering customers through the marshes to start their BeWILDerwood day.
 
In fact the list of their environmental work is as long as the queues for their locally made ice cream on a balmy sunny Norfolk day.
 

Fences within the site have been made from wood harvested in their own woods

 

Bewilderwood has helped to upgrade local footpaths, bridleways and cycle paths to allow sustainable access and are home to Broadland Cycle Hire to allow people to explore further beyond their gates

 

Bewilderwood are pleased to be part of an East of England/National Express campaign, Lets Go, encouraging visitors to travel to our attraction by train

 

They have planted more than 14,000 trees helping to enhance a woodland environment and go a long way to reducing their carbon footprint

 

Over 70% of waste is recycled on site using brightly colour coded bins and fun signage.

 

Bewilderwood has really strong Tree and Environmental Management Plans for a previously unmanaged landscape. They have almost created the ultimate recycling project – a new use for land that had been lovely, but almost useless and accidentally created up to 70 new jobs for local people in the process.

 

 

 



 

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