Sharpham Success Stories

25th October, 2025

by Katie Tokus | 1 Min Read

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Explore this year's successes, including stories from retreatants and participants on our nature-connection courses, nature-restoration gains, testimonials from people who won bursary places to stay with us, highlights from our Google Reviews and more.

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Phil Cardew, Mindful-in-Nature participant

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Phil's story

Phil struggled to express his grief due to a culture of silence amongst male colleagues and friends. Then he began our Mindful in Nature course.

A retreatant journalling in the library at Sharpham House

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Hannah's story

Hannah was so attached to her phone that she would walk her little boy to school whilst staring at a screen. Until she came on retreat with us...

Ospreys landing on their nest - but not at Sharpham yet

Francois Roux

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Building osprey nests

We and our nature-restoration partners Ambios won funding to erect eight-metre high osprey nests, to entice these fish-eating birds of prey back to breeding on the Sharpham Estate.

Ern Stock

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Saving the saltmarsh

Work began to save a rare, riverside habitat at Sharpham, helping to shore up the saltmarsh and conserve a disappearing ecosystem.

Self-Compassion Retreats at Sharpham Trust

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Bursary recipient Laura shares her story

Sharpham donors helped this retreatant transform her life after accessing our burnout retreat

TV's Frances Tophill and Jack Skuse, from our rewilding partners Ambios plant an oak tree sapling for National Tree Week 2024

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TV Tophill's tree!

Gardeners World host Frances put roots down at Sharpham this year. Literally.

Kirsty Summerbell, Sharpham Trust retreatant and founder of the Bellflower and Bloom community

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Kirsty's story

How being in our incredible natural setting helped a woman begin her journey to heal

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Funding for new trees

Our continuing nature-restoration work received further funding for thousands of trees to be planted on the Sharpham Estate

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Large donation given

A gift to our charity from the The Hollick Family Foundation will go to subsidise retreat-spaces for young people

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Woodland Retreats - Google Reviews

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