We’re incredibly honoured to have been selected as recipients of the Ffern Folk Foundation Grant for 2026. To be chosen from nearly 200 applications, by a Guild we deeply admire, feels profoundly affirming.
With Ffern’s support, we’re excited to work alongside local communities across the West Country to bring forth a new processional giant. We’re excited to share more details on our plans for the project soon.
We’re also delighted to be in such inspiring company. Fellow recipients include Flossy and Boo, the Welsh theatre company. The Black British Folk Collective who will be founding Britain’s first regular folk club for Black and Global Majority people. And Manchester Urban Diggers will be deepening their work in city spaces, cultivating gardens and community-led workshops shaped by the seasonal rhythms of the year. We’re proud to stand alongside these projects and look forward to seeing how each takes root over the coming year.
Our thanks go to the Ffern Folk Foundation and to the Guild who made these selections: Zakia Sewell, Charlie Cooper, Ben Edge, Sam Lee, and Alex Merry.
We’re grateful, too, for the beautiful artwork by Will Powers.
We were delighted to be invited on to The Forest School Podcast to talk all things Giants, Beasties, Environmental Activism, Folk Tradition, Community, Masks, Slugs and more… You can listen to the episodes below.
Tregona is the creation of students in Years 4, 5 & 6 at Leedstown School and The Lost Giants. She is inspired by the character in Stephen Polglase’s tale ‘The Last Giants’ and made possible by #ArtsLab Arts Lab is a creative wellbeing programme by and for young people in Cornwall, delivered by HeadStart Kernow, …
by Amy Webb, The Lost Giants Mal is a lemon slug. And like many—if not all—slugs, Mal doesn’t have a voice. But like so many ancient woodland indicator species, Mal carries a deep, instinctive yearning to exist. A right to simply be and a right to be heard. Over the past few months, as Mal has grown, I’ve come …
Ffern Folk Foundation Grant
We’re incredibly honoured to have been selected as recipients of the Ffern Folk Foundation Grant for 2026. To be chosen from nearly 200 applications, by a Guild we deeply admire, feels profoundly affirming.
With Ffern’s support, we’re excited to work alongside local communities across the West Country to bring forth a new processional giant. We’re excited to share more details on our plans for the project soon.
We’re also delighted to be in such inspiring company. Fellow recipients include Flossy and Boo, the Welsh theatre company. The Black British Folk Collective who will be founding Britain’s first regular folk club for Black and Global Majority people. And Manchester Urban Diggers will be deepening their work in city spaces, cultivating gardens and community-led workshops shaped by the seasonal rhythms of the year. We’re proud to stand alongside these projects and look forward to seeing how each takes root over the coming year.
Our thanks go to the Ffern Folk Foundation and to the Guild who made these selections: Zakia Sewell, Charlie Cooper, Ben Edge, Sam Lee, and Alex Merry.
We’re grateful, too, for the beautiful artwork by Will Powers.
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Tregona is the creation of students in Years 4, 5 & 6 at Leedstown School and The Lost Giants. She is inspired by the character in Stephen Polglase’s tale ‘The Last Giants’ and made possible by #ArtsLab Arts Lab is a creative wellbeing programme by and for young people in Cornwall, delivered by HeadStart Kernow, …
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by Amy Webb, The Lost Giants Mal is a lemon slug. And like many—if not all—slugs, Mal doesn’t have a voice. But like so many ancient woodland indicator species, Mal carries a deep, instinctive yearning to exist. A right to simply be and a right to be heard. Over the past few months, as Mal has grown, I’ve come …