Our AMAZING Events
Family nature play sessions
Meet as our ancestors did,... together, around a fire, connecting with other families in nature. Connection with the Earth and each other, connection to our lineage, to the Ancient ways, to how we have always lived, as a village raising our children together around a fire, weaving, singing, offering our thanks to Mother Earth.
Offered as a monthly session alongside the Celtic calendar, we invite you to step back into these traditional practices, welcome home.
Women's Circles
Our Monthly Women's Circle. A chance for you to be heard, and listen, in circle. A chance for socialising, support, and down time, meeting with friends, and friends to be. Charged as a donation (suggested £3) Please car share if possible. Follow link to book your space.
'FAB FRIDAYS' Home Ed sessions
Fab Fridays at Fen Zen 🌿✨
Inspiring Learning Through Nature & Connection
Welcome to Fab Fridays – our exciting, hands-on educational sessions for home-educated children and their families. Designed to ignite curiosity, creativity, and a love for learning, these sessions bring expert-led workshops into the heart of nature at Fen Zen.
📅 When & Where?
🕐 Fridays | 1–3 PM
📍 Fen Zen, West Norfolk
📆 March – July 2025
🌱 What to Expect
Each Fab Friday session is led by a knowledgeable and passionate instructor, covering a diverse range of engaging topics, including:
🔬 Science & Entomology – Hands-on experiments & bug hunts
🛡️ Personal Safety – Self-awareness, first aid & outdoor skills
📏 Maths in Nature – Fun, real-world problem-solving
🌿 Environmental Stewardship & Botany – Caring for the planet & plant science
🎨 Art & Creativity – Expressing nature through different mediums
🐾 Animal Lifecycles & Habitats – Exploring wildlife up close
🔨 Green Woodworking – Crafting with natural materials
🏺 Archaeology & Local History – Digging into the past
🌾 Growing Food & Animal Care – Learning to nurture and sustain
Every session is designed to be interactive, fun, and educational, fostering social connections, critical thinking, and hands-on learning experiences.
💡 Who Can Attend?
Fab Fridays are open to all home-educating families, welcoming children aged 5–14 alongside their parents. Younger children and siblings are welcome to join in if you think they will enjoy it.
🎟️ How to Book
Spaces are limited, so advance booking is essential. Click below to secure your spot!
Join us for exploration, discovery, and learning in nature – we can’t wait to welcome you to Fab Fridays at Fen Zen! 🌿💡📚
Women's Nurture Days
Make time to harness the power of nature and fully immerse yourself in a ‘Women’s Nurture Day’ found in the beautiful setting at Fen Zen, for women only. Tucked away in the beautiful West Norfolk countryside, on the outskirts of the small village of Denver. This peaceful, healing environment is the perfect haven to enjoy a day of relaxation, meditation, and opportunity to refill your ‘creative-well’ by trying an optional creative activity.
Women’s Nurture Days are offered throughout the year from Springtime to Wintertime. We look forward to welcoming you to Fen Zen, to harness the power of nature and use this natural space to fully relax. Encouraging you to spend quality time in nature, on a regular basis. To help you feel more centred, more at peace and more balanced.
Community Fire!
We hold a once monthly Community Fire, open to all, to sit around the campfire, connect and chat with other people. Like our Ancestors did, to share stories, skills, to sing and drum if you want to! This is such a chilled event, all welcome, please bring your own refreshments.
Free event! (donations welcome)
Please email for the next date.
Venue Hire
Hire our beautiful eco roundhouse and/or 8 acre meadow for your next event. As long as it echo's our eco values and respects our neighbours, the Wildlife and the Environment, we are all ears!
Previous groups have hired the space for Baby showers, Birthday shindigs (complete with 6 piece acoustic band), drumming circles, healing and nurture days, and yoga retreats. What ever has been bubbling under the surface, spiraling in your creative mind, the wonderful encouraging elements at Fen Zen is sure to hold you on your journey, as you step bravely into this new world of 'showing up', and offering yourself to YOUR people.
If you have an idea brewing, lets chat!
More events
Community Garden
Monday afternoons are set aside for anyone who wants to join us for some time in the vegetable patch. We need volunteers for weeding, harvesting, planting, maintenance and everything besides. Our smallholding and Organic Market Garden is a thriving hub of activity and there is always something to do. The community also has it's own section of the garden. We welcome visitors, gardeners, peace seekers, and community groups to come and share our space, and produce.
Wild Retreats
A whole weekend to relax and rewild, digitally detox, and be in nature. Wholesome food, wicked nature based activities, a Cacao Ceremony, plenty of time to totally relax, and an opportunity to learn new skills such as foraging, willow weaving, natural dyeing etc etc.
Men's Fire Circles
We are proud to host a Men's Circle once a month throughout the year! An opportunity to meet with other men for chat, support and skillshare. The Men's circle meets every last Friday of the Month from 7pm until around 9pm. Book or just show up.
Donations accepted.
Bush craft Parties
Basket Making Workshops
Bush craft Parties
Looking for something different to the usual childrens parties?
For a special, never to be forgotten outdoor adventure, a visit to Fen Zen is something your child and their friends will cherish for years to come.
Wether it’s a birthday, to celebrate finishing exams, or marking a milestone in your child’s life, we’re able to provide a fun,
Looking for something different to the usual childrens parties?
For a special, never to be forgotten outdoor adventure, a visit to Fen Zen is something your child and their friends will cherish for years to come.
Wether it’s a birthday, to celebrate finishing exams, or marking a milestone in your child’s life, we’re able to provide a fun, exciting and educational outdoor party experience that they’ll remember for years to come.
Our childrens parties are delivered by qualified and experienced staff and are generally based around a bushcraft theme and involve den building and fire lighting.
With that said, we can tailor a party to your needs if you have other activities in mind, we have a vast range of skills and experience and can tackle most aspects of bushcraft and survival.
For a typical party we’ll introduce the children to the importance of shelter in the outdoors and teach them how to build their own from natural resources provided to us by nature.
For the fire lighting element of the party, the children get to try out lots of different ways to light a fire, from matches & lighters, batteries & wire wool, through to modern fire steels.
They will then gather their own firewood, learn how to set a up a fire to give them the very best chance of success, light a fire and use it to cook hot dogs and marshmallows.
We provide catering for the special day; in fact, the kids love to cook their own sausages and marshmallows on a fire they’ve lit themselves!
Our bushcraft childrens parties are held outdoors, all year round, on a beautiful 8 acre rewilded meadow in Denver, Norfolk.
We have a dedicated area for the parties nestled between the trees and bushes so that the kids get a genuine wild experience. Our children’s parties last for around 3 hours. We take a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 children at a party.
A half-day birthday party is £30 per child. The price is all inclusive and covers the bushcraft activities, refreshments, hot chocolate, hot dogs and marshmallows.
For more information, or to discuss options, please email us.
Childrens parties
Basket Making Workshops
Bush craft Parties
Wether it's a first or a 13th, we have the Birthday party that will suit your child! Tell us what you want, or pick from the pre planned parties:
- Mud glorious mud!
- Pirate Ship!
- Fairies and Elves!
- Survive!!
Or your own theme! We love parties here at Fen Zen! We know that your child will feel so special from the get go, and all their friends will have a great time too! Email for detalis.
Basket Making Workshops
Basket Making Workshops
Basket Making Workshops
We regularly run Basket making workshops here at Fen Zen. Inviting the UK's BEST basket makers to host a full day of weaving instruction.
Next dates:
Saturday 7th of September
With Jonathon Carrie from Norfolk Hedge
Please call or email to book
Rites of passage ceremonies
Menarche ceremony
Divine Creatrix Ceremony
Divine Creatrix Ceremony
For young girls approaching their first bleed, or having started, this rite of passage empowers our daughters with the wisdom and upholding of her community to embrace her monthly cycles and celebrate her connection with the Divine Feminine and Mother Earth.
Divine Creatrix Ceremony
Divine Creatrix Ceremony
Divine Creatrix Ceremony
After the intensity of the early year's of motherhood, a woman's creative potential returns and they are boundless with possibility. This wild woman energy can be harnessed and directed when recognised and carefully tended. A ceremony to mark this expansive time creates clear focus and intention for these manifesting powers.
Sacred Hen Gathering
Divine Creatrix Ceremony
Sacred Hen Gathering
Reclaiming the modern-day hen party as an opportunity to gather in circle and prepare for marriage in sacred and celebratory way. Weaving together ritual and practices that connect you to your desires and dreams with your special chosen Women.
About Us
Blessingway/Mother's Blessing
Blessingway/Mother's Blessing
Blessingway/Mother's Blessing
A Blessingway is a traditional ceremony created to support , empower and spiritually prepare the new mother for her journey of birthing and motherhood. Gathering in circle with your special female friends to celebrate your fertility and power and blessing the upcoming birth with prayers and positive intentions.
A Blessingway is all about
A Blessingway is a traditional ceremony created to support , empower and spiritually prepare the new mother for her journey of birthing and motherhood. Gathering in circle with your special female friends to celebrate your fertility and power and blessing the upcoming birth with prayers and positive intentions.
A Blessingway is all about nurturing and connecting heart to heart with the mother. Filling her cup so it overflows with love and confidence as she awaits the impending birth of her baby. She’s so much more than a vessel to bring a baby into this world. She’s a woman becoming a mother.
Historically, a Blessingway is an old Navajo (native American) ceremony, which celebrates a woman’s rite of passage into motherhood.
The westernised version of this is the ‘Mother Blessing.’
Embracing the Crone
Blessingway/Mother's Blessing
Blessingway/Mother's Blessing
A ceremony that celebrates Older women and welcomes them as an Elder. To encourage and support them in sharing their wisdom with the world. Older women are full of wisdom and precious knowledge, experience and keepers of tradition. Honoring and respecting their wisdom is vital for their wellbeing and that of the community and the wider World.
Transitions and Thresholds
Blessingway/Mother's Blessing
Transitions and Thresholds
Life is full of change. Sometimes that change is easy but sometimes it's more difficult. Whatever the change or transition you are facing, are at the threshold of, or have just endured, we can come together to support you spiritually and physically, with nurturing practices and ceremony.
Dates for your Diary
Basket Making Workshop
Basket Making Workshop
Basket Making Workshop
Join us on Saturday 7th September 2024 for a Basket weaving workshop with Jonathon Carrie from 'NORFOLK HEDGE', he is a total pro at getting the very best from his students! We always have a really fun day with Jonathon, and we always leave with a beautiful basket too!! Save your space on this wonderful day!
When: Saturday 7th September 2
Join us on Saturday 7th September 2024 for a Basket weaving workshop with Jonathon Carrie from 'NORFOLK HEDGE', he is a total pro at getting the very best from his students! We always have a really fun day with Jonathon, and we always leave with a beautiful basket too!! Save your space on this wonderful day!
When: Saturday 7th September 2024 (9.45am to 4pm)
Where: Fen Zen, Denver, Downham Market, Norfolk.
Cost - £95pp maximum of 10 per workshop.
Bookings are taken now in advance and deposits confirm your booking.
£35 deposit per person or full price £95pp which includes all materials, equipment, tea and cake!
Alternative Provision
Basket Making Workshop
Basket Making Workshop
Coming soon Alternative provision for children/young people who are struggling with attending school.
Watch this space, or contact us for more details.