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’ve secured the land. We’ve committed the first $700,000.
Now we need you.
Every dollar you give is matched, doubling your impact.
WHY WE NEED YOU
One home is closing.
Our forever home needs to be ready.
Today, 55 children learn here every day, in woods they know by heart. More than 250 families are part of Hundred Acre Wood each year, but more than 200 children remain on the waitlist, while their families search for the care they need.
Our current lease is ending and cannot be renewed.
The good news? We’ve found our forever home: Fifty-plus acres of forest, bush, meadow, gardens and farmland on the Niagara Escarpment. A place where generations of children can grow up learning from the land.
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
Help keep wonder growing.
Someday, another child will turn over a log here and discover a whole world underneath.
They won’t know who made that moment possible.
But you will.
Help us give Hundred Acre Wood a forever home and keep this kind of childhood growing for generations to come.
WHY THIS LAND. WHY THESE CHILDREN
A living classroom, for generations.
Our new home is more than 50 acres of forest, bush, 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 preserved, a living classroom where children can come to know one piece of the natural world deeply enough to want to care for 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
MAKE YOUR MARK
Every gift has a place here.
Likae the land itself, this campaign grows in layers. From the canopy to the seed in the soil, every gift helps create 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.
Commitments can also be fulfilled over time.
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. Hear what we imagine for the meadow, gardens and trails. And talk with us about what it could mean to help steward this place for the generations that follow.
We'd love to show you around.
These pictures say it all. Please help us grow.
Keep wonder growing.
Someday, another child will turn over a log here and discover a whole world underneath.
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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