The directors present their report and accounts for the year ended 31st August 2025. Principal activity Listed for DeWolf Bushcraft CIC on standard industry classifications the company has:02100 - Silviculture and other forestry activities55209 - Other holiday and other collective accommodation85590 - Other education not elsewhere classified86900 - Other human health activities The company is primarily set up to push the principals of the Sanctuary Project - to provide a woodland retreat for current and ex working NHS and blue light emergency services personnel, Veterans, Mountain Rescue, First Responders, and other people that work with patient/public dealing emergency or health/medical issues. It is aimed at all these who may be dealing with (in varying forms), burnout, moral injury, and/or PTSD - especially that which was borne over from the Covid period. Using nature, mountains, woodland, wild-swimming, bushcraft/primitive skills, tracking, foraging, star gazing, natural navigation, campfire cooking, hammock sleeping, forest bathing, and many other nature driven methods - the aim is to use this all as a means of natural therapy - something that has had its effectiveness proven time and again through anecdotal and study based evidence. There is a growing percentage of personnel leaving the NHS and similar professions due to stress, depression, burnout and PTSD with a growing number of suicides throughout the UK. Our aim at DeWolf Buschraft CIC is simple - to reduce stress, help reduce chances of suicide and reduce the chances of people leaving their chosen profession. On a typical weekend, people will sleep in hammocks, cook and chat round a central campfire, learn foraging, and primitive fire lighting techniques. We will also do wild walks into the local hills/mountains, wild swimming in the tarns and lakes, use sharp tools and learn primitive techniques to make hunting tools such as Atlatls, spears, and arrows, or primitive jewellery. We will learn ancient primitive methods on community and well-being, star gazing, being as one with nature. Personal hygiene will be in the wilds and toileting will be via compost loo. Ultimately, we will have the chance to just be . . . to sit in the wilds of nature and stare at the fire – if this is all that is required to allow personal recharge. There is always the chance of follow ups and offers of repeat visits as we will never turn someone down. Secondary to the Sanctuary Project will be paid services such as Jungle Training. So far this has been to Ultra Event companies for preparation for clients and also to Mountain associations for CPD for leaders. This provides much needed funds that so far have been channelled directly back into the CIC to help the Sanctuary Project and keep costs to those who need it, to a minimum. I am a Paramedic Practitioner by profession, now working full time in a Urgent Treatment Centre in Liverpool - therefore my main wage is through my work. The Sanctuary Project through DeWolfBushcraft CIC is done in my spare time in conjunction with dealing with home/family life too. The CIC has been dormant in this last financial year. This is due to personal reasons and my own PTSD issues. I have been receiving Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) as well as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), the latter showing excellent results. Together with my own access to woodland and Lakeland areas I am showing good progress in recovery. And this makes me more determined than ever to be able to continue delivering my Sanctuary Project to those who need it. I aim to continue where I paused, later in the year, or at the beginning of 2027 – whereby I want to concentrate on procuring funding of which will allow monthly access to the Project. My aim is to spend more time with the Sanctuary Project so that I can slowly ease away from full time medicine work – an area that is a continued source of issues with PTSD. The weekends are planned for a once a month set up, and in all seasons other than winter. In previous years the Sanctuary Project has hosted persons from various NHS/Emergency blue light professions as well as similar veteran and shelter organisations. Some of these have been mildly burned out, some close to quitting work for good, some with diagnosed PTSD. Others with history of alcohol or drug dependency. All are struggling in some form or another either at work, at home, or in day-to-day life. This has benefited and helped keep those in the work and jobs they ultimately wanted to be in in the first place. I continue, to this day, to have requests from new and repeat individuals to present at the woodland site for a weekend “respite”. It has been heart breaking for me not to be able to accommodate this financial year as much. Feedback has been via survey forms and all proving the benefits associated with nature – I have been using past surveys and will use future surveys also to support application for funding. As mentioned previously, I normally provide other events to help fund the project – such as Jungle Training for expedition leaders and medics. This helps keep overall costs to the individuals within the Sanctuary Project to a minimum. Ultimately, I want funding, and will be in liaison with the landowners to support the application for funding. Future funding will help provide wooden walkways over boggy ground and bridges over brooks to allow the site to be more accessible to those who need it. This will also include the construction of two compost toilets to be permanent on site and further fixtures to base camp, such as raised fire platform, wood stores, possible yurtlike structure, etc. It will also allow access on (at least) a monthly basis all year round for full weekends at a heavily reduced rate – to allow access to those who need it. All to be done with connection with landowners and funding. The Sanctuary Project makes good use of volunteers to help run the projects and in return, training in bushcraft and mountains are provided. I often liaise with the directors over improving sessions and techniques for wellbeing and forest bathing etc I am also in liaison with other CICs and organisations locally, as well as across the country, who do similar projects and there is long discussion on collaboration for projects throughout the UK. This will increase amount of people coming through the project.

Consultation with stakeholders The company's stakeholders are the very clients who attend the weekends of the Sanctuary Project. These are the NHS workers, Veterans, Emergency Services "blue light" workers and others who use the Sanctuary as a means of therapy. They are also the landowner and wood suppliers - as the landowner is keen for rewilding in his forest and this coincides with the values of our nature project and what we deliver. The wood for fires and cooking is always locally sourced and supplied from the landowners. The directors either have hands on experience as a Paramedic and/or have skills and knowledge based on forest bathing, well-being, forestry, tracking, bushcraft and natural and primitive ways. All of which contribute to the model that we currently use in the Sanctuary Project. We ask all people attending to complete online feedback forms to see if any micro changes can be made in delivery. We also send surveys to question how the natural environment has aided their well-being. This is currently still being collated for further evidence to show how important these projects are - but also to accompany further applications for funding or support or partnerships.

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