Free We Grow

Free We Grow A community of children who meet at Dacres' Wood Nature Reserve in SE23 https://linktr.ee/freewegrow Free We Grow Ltd.

arose from the desire of three families to continue enabling our children to freely explore their own ways of learning to learn, and to grow in a democratic environment connected to nature and the world around us. In our educational project "At Dacres Wood" - aimed at children in the ages of 5-11 years, children’s time for free-play, exploration, imagination, and the pursuit of their individual or

group interests is respected. We foster a culture where adults and children learn from each other, and create spaces for dialogue through meetings and open communication. Our approach is based on the values of integrity, and respect for one another as human beings, and as a community we will strive to model these values. We are based at Dacres Wood Nature Reserve in Forest Hill (London, UK) and are open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:30 to 15:00.

Join us for an information meeting , hang out & play!Wednesday 29th April, 3:30-5:00pmDacres Wood, Forest Hill, South Lo...
28/04/2026

Join us for an information meeting , hang out & play!
Wednesday 29th April, 3:30-5:00pm
Dacres Wood, Forest Hill, South London

🦊 Free We Grow is a 3 day per week drop off provision for unschooled/ home educated children from ages 6 to 12 years old.

🌳 Set in a beautiful nature reserve in South London, it’s a super fun and loving self-directed educational space, where children learn through play and have the freedom to choose cool things they’d like to learn about and explore!

🐞 Please join us to find out more about the project, meet the facilitators, some of the kids, explore the woods and hang out and play!

🦋 Drop us an email or give us a call to book onto our info meeting, or if that date doesn’t work then let us know and we can arrange another time that suits.

[email protected]
07748751586
www.freewegrow.co.uk

12/03/2026

Free We Grow info meeting and hang out!
Wednesday 18th March from 3.30pm to 5pm.

🍐 Are you a home educating family in South London?
🌳 Looking for a nature based learning community for your child?
🐯 Interested joining the unschooling / self-directed learning movement?

Free We Grow is a self-directed learning community in South London (Forest Hill, SE23) for 6 to 11 year olds. It is a drop off provision for 3 days per week on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (term time, 33 weeks per year).

At our info meeting and hang out session, you can come and explore our indoor and outdoor spaces, meet the facilitators and some of the children that attend the project, ask questions, hear from Free We Grow about how it operates and learn about some of the really cool stuff that happens here.

We will provide tea & snacks!

Please email us at [email protected] letting us know that you will be attending, with your names and ages of children.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Roll up roll up, and join us for a Dacres Wood Open Day!!This coming Saturday 28th February from 1pm to 4pmDacres Wood, ...
26/02/2026

Roll up roll up, and join us for a Dacres Wood Open Day!!
This coming Saturday 28th February from 1pm to 4pm
Dacres Wood, Honeyfield Mews, Forest Hill, SE23 2NH

This beautiful reserve is generally closed off to the public, to protect the nature, apart from the last Saturday of every month when we fling open our gates wide open to the whole community!

And we have an AWESOME lineup this Saturday;

1 to 2pm - Pond dipping
Come and discover the mini creatures & beasts lurking in our magical pond

2 to 3pm - A global choral celebration for Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday.
We will be learning the song together and filming this, to be included alongside other choirs world wide in a music video being made for Sir David!

3 to 4pm - Bird feeder making
Make a bird feeder to take home, supporting the wildlife at this tricky time of year

PLUS
A hot chocolate stall and an outdoor beyblade arena, created by the children!

The event is free to attend and is hosted by Free We Grow's children, facilitators and parents, in association with the Friends of Dacres Wood & Lewisham Council.

The times of the scheduled sessions may change on the day.

Further details on the global choir session can be found here;
https://gamma.app/docs/Attenboroughs-100th-Global-Choral-Celebratio-9d24ejlp9qcdhjb?mode=doc

Sciiiieeeence science science everywhere!Science happens all the time at FWG! Usually through play and exploration, and ...
02/02/2026

Sciiiieeeence science science everywhere!
Science happens all the time at FWG! Usually through play and exploration, and occasionally through specific offerings linked to the children’s interests!
Here are a few snippets from our autumn term just gone!
1 - the marvels of the pond! Truly some of the pond creatures are superheroes!
2- learning to capture and refract the rays of the sun to make fire
3- collecting and comparing different soil types
4- ph testing our spit after eating different snacks!
5- foraging for rose hips, which are super high in vitamin c! 20 times more than an orange by weight!
6- constructing a frame
7- making natural ph testing liquid using cabbage
8- our regular Mad Sciene club, this time with instructions to make elephant toothpaste
9- play with shapes
10- elephant toothpaste!

We love parents coming in to read and tell and act and co-create stories with us for the last 15 minutes of the day! Thi...
25/01/2026

We love parents coming in to read and tell and act and co-create stories with us for the last 15 minutes of the day! This is a new routine at Free We and it’s magical! Thank you all you wonderful FWG parents! We love you!!

Duncan Hamilton Tom Herbert Louise Wikström Yasmin Poyntz Misa Gott Grant

🍐 Are you a home educating family in South London? 🌳 Looking for a nature based community for your child?🐯 Interested...
16/10/2025

🍐 Are you a home educating family in South London?
🌳 Looking for a nature based community for your child?
🐯 Interested in child led learning?

Come along and find out more about Free We Grow!
London’s only self directed and sociocratic learning community for home educated / unschooled children, based in a nature reserve in South London.

Our community meets Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and we have just a few spaces left for 2025/2026.

Join us for our information meeting online on Tuesday 20th of October, from 6pm to 7:30pm.
Drop us an email at [email protected] letting us know you'd like to attend the online meeting, along with your name and your child/s name and ages.

You can also find more information about our project here on our website; https://www.freewegrow.co.uk/

Tomorrow evening ! Interested to learn more about our community for home Ed children in South East London?Join us!🍁 Wedn...
01/07/2025

Tomorrow evening ! Interested to learn more about our community for home Ed children in South East London?

Join us!

🍁 Wednesday 2nd of July @ 6.00pm- 7.30pm we’ll be hosting an ONLINE information meeting welcoming anyone who would love to learn more about joining our community.

🔥 If you’d like to attend the session next week, please do send a message to [email protected], letting us know your name/s and how many of you will be attending.

Next Info Meeting ⭐️ 🍁 Wednesday 2nd of July @ 6.00pm- 7.30pm we’ll be hosting an ONLINE information meeting welcoming a...
01/07/2025

Next Info Meeting ⭐️

🍁 Wednesday 2nd of July @ 6.00pm- 7.30pm we’ll be hosting an ONLINE information meeting welcoming anyone who would love to learn more about joining our community.

🔥 If you’d like to attend the session next week, please do send a message to [email protected], letting us know your name/s and how many of you will be attending.

30/06/2025

Next Info Meeting ⭐️

🍁 Wednesday 2nd of July @ 6.00pm- 7.30pm we'll be hosting an ONLINE information meeting welcoming anyone who would love to learn more about joining our community.

🔥 If you'd like to attend the session next week, please do send a message to [email protected], letting us know your name/s and how many of you will be attending.

💫 Hello fellow home edders and unschoolers!🌳 Our family is part of this beautiful project called Free We Grow in Dacres ...
23/06/2025

💫 Hello fellow home edders and unschoolers!

🌳 Our family is part of this beautiful project called Free We Grow in Dacres Wood, Forest Hill, where my daughter attends 3 days per week. It's a magical, self-directed learning space in the heart of the woods. There are no formal lessons, children learn as they play and have complete autonomy to plan what their day looks like!

🌲 It’s aimed at children aged 5 to 11 years old that are home-educated/ unschooled in South London.

🌴 Every term, we invite potential new families to visit the project and learn all about our ethos, vibes, self-directed learning, emergent curriculum and the fun & games the children get up to!

JOIN US!

🍁 Wednesday 2nd of July @ 6.00pm- 7.30pm we'll be hosting an ONLINE information meeting welcoming anyone who would love to learn more about joining our community.

🔥 If you'd like to attend the session next week, please do send a message to [email protected], letting us know your name/s and how many of you will be attending.

🪵 You can also drop me any questions on here.

To view more info see our site below:

www.freewegrow.co.uk

Address

Honeyfield Mews, Dacres Wood Reserve
London
SE23

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9:30am - 3pm
Thursday 9:30am - 3pm
Friday 9:30am - 3pm

Telephone

+447493115495

Website

https://linktr.ee/freewegrow

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