Who are we and what do we do?
Ambroise Farm was set up by Charlie Hobbs, Tom Killick, and Miriam Hollely-Barik in 2019 to deliver children's occupational therapy services and nature connection groups. Wildschool leader Elena Harris joined us in 2022 and OT Helen Wakeling joined us in 2025.
Our vision is to create and promote a holistic experience that enables children and their families to develop social skills, environmental stewardship, and positive mental and physical health within a natural environment.
Our vision is to create and promote a holistic experience that enables children and their families to develop social skills, environmental stewardship, and positive mental and physical health within a natural environment.
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The area of the site utilised comprises an orchard, a spinney, some open land, and a pond. We have recently been awarded a grant of 420 trees by the Woodland Trust, which has been planted to extend Whimsy Wood. Whimsy Wood is our spinney of mixed native deciduous trees, on the edge of 5 acres of certified organic land; rich with insect life, birds, rabbits, badgers and occasional muntjac deer. |
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In a small field adjoining the spinney is a huge rabbit warren and a natural pond, teeming with frogs, newts, diving beetles and countless other pondlife.
At the other end of the spinney is a small orchard of apple trees, alive with bees in the Spring and full of delicious fruits in the Autumn. The site has amazing views over Brill Common and other local countryside and is ideal for the delivery of our diverse and enriching therapeutic and nature connection activities. |
View from the edge of Whimsy Wood towards Oxford
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We are excited and grateful to have been supported by grants
from the Woodland Trust and the Brill Community Fund.
