We are a housing co-op and a collection of humans committed to positive social change, enabling access to land for more people, growing our food and medicine, sharing resources, deepening connection, and putting into practice what it is to live lightly and with thanks on this beautiful land, with all the beings here and with each other.

In April 2023 Kettle Co-operative officially became the guardians of the land we now live and work on (several of us were already living here at the time). It was a long time in the making and for most of us the second land based housing co-op we’d set up and lived in (Heartwell and Landmatters being the previous). 

We were lucky enough to have people believe in us, our vision and our history to lend us their money to buy the land at Oakwood. Within the first year we also took a loan with Radical Routes – A Network of Housing and Workers Co-ops working for radical social change, which connected us up with this amazing collective, which we are now members of.

Oakwood has a long history of being a Forest School site and as such has a woodland classroom, compost loos, a pizza oven, several campfire areas, two indoor classrooms (one with a kitchen), a large geometrical herb garden centring around a fire pit, a beautiful open sided roundhouse, and the beginnings of a covered outdoor kitchen!
We also currently have an onsite apothecary, a community food shop, shared vegetable gardens and a large polytunnel.

As well as living here, we really want to share the land with others, believing access to land and community is vital for human health on all levels. Have a look at our What’s On and Support Us & Get Involved pages to see how you can get more involved in what we’re doing here.

For more info on the history of our co-op and what we’ve been up to at Oakwood over the last few years, here’s a link to our old blog- https://oakwoodstory.blogspot.com