Children need nature.
Nature needs children.
Help us build a forever home for Hundred Acre Wood.
For seven years, children have grown up here with the forest as their classroom. Now our lease is ending, and we have until September 2027 to open the doors to our new home.
We secured the land. We’ve committed the first $700,000. Now we need our community to help build it.
Every dollar you give is matched, doubling your impact.
Why we need you.
Childcare helps a community thrive. We need a permanent home to keep it here.
Today, 55 children depend on Hundred Acre Wood, and more than 200 families are waiting for a space.
Our lease ends in September 2027 and cannot be renewed. Without a new licensed home, families could lose childcare they rely on.
We’ve purchased our forever home: more than 50 acres of forest, meadow, gardens, and farmland on the Niagara Escarpment.
Now we need to build the school that will protect childcare and create more room.
See why this new home matters and what we’re building together.
“If our kids develop a deep, rich relationship with the natural world, they’ll develop a true love and respect for each other and our planet.”
— Meg, HAW parent
Children need places like this. And nature needs children who grow up caring for it.
At Hundred Wood Acre, nature isn’t a field trip. It’s the classroom. Children spend their days outside, in every season, learning to explore, take risks, solve problems, and trust themselves.
Your gift protects this kind of childhood, creates space for more children, and gives generations a place to grow up knowing and caring for the natural world.
Why this Land? Why these children?
A living classroom, for generations.
Our new home is more than 50 acres of forest, meadow, gardens, and farmland on the Niagara Escarpment, within a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve and alongside the Bruce Trail.
Less than 1% will ever be built on.
The rest will remain open and wild, a living classroom where children can come to know one piece of the natural world deeply enough to love it and want to protect it.
“The young naturalists who graduate from Hundred Acre Wood may be the ones to take up the mantle of stewarding sensitive ecosystems. Canada’s iconic Bruce Trail serves as a living classroom.”
Michael McDonald
Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Trail Conservancy
Every gift has a place here.
Like the land itself, this campaign grows in layers. From the canopy to the seed in the soil, every gift helps build a permanent home for Hundred Acre Wood.
Whether you give $100, plant a tree in your family's name, or make a leadership gift that helps shape our new home, there is a way to make this place part of your story.
And because every gift is matched 1:1, whatever you choose to give goes twice as far.
Leadership gifts and naming opportunities are available from $1,000 to $100,000.
You can also fulfill commitments over time.
A $1.4million forever home.
$700,000 committed by Hundred Acre Wood.
$700,000 to raise together.
Come walk the land with us.
There is only so much we can show you on a screen.
Come walk the forest. See where the new school will stand. Imagine children learning in the meadow, gardens, and trails.
Come see what we’re building together.
We'd love to show you around.
These pictures say it all. Please help us grow.
Someday, another child will turn over a log here and discover a whole world underneath.
They won’t know about the lease that ended.
They won’t know about the land that we purchased or the community that came together to build their school.
They won't know who made that moment possible.
But you will.
Your gift will help give Hundred Acre Wood a forever home, so generations of children can grow up knowing, loving, and caring for the natural world.
And right now, every gift is matched 1:1.
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