Wishanger Wellness

Wishanger Wellness is a registered charity whose charitable purpose is to promote and protect physical and mental health by providing opportunities to access open spaces which it shall do by harnessing the healing power of the natural environment (ecotherapy).  The charity has been transferred a unique space (Tara’s Farm) for this purpose and will be sharing Tara’s Farm to provide vital access to open space for those in our communities whose well-being would benefit most from being in this unique location, while also ensuring the habitat and environment are protected for generations to come.

Sustainably managed to increase biodiversity and harness the healing power of nature

Our mission

The charity recognises its fortunate position in owning Tara’s Farm. It is dedicated to using the farm to improve individual people’s lives through agricultural or forestry activities, enabling individuals to experience this special part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on a farm that is run for the benefit of both the fauna and flora, as well as for the improvement of individual users’ well-being. 

News

VOLUNTEERING: we are busy planning our woodland sensory garden and so opportunities to help us create this space will be coming soon …… in the meantime, even though it is still February, spring is on its way and we have welcomed seeing the first butterflies at Tara’s Farm.

2026 has started with a period of reflection on what the charity has achieved in its first financial year. Our annual report includes further details. We are proud to share that achievements include: ownership of Tara’s Farm transferred to the charity; setting up terms for partnership with Change of Scene to enable Change of Scene to continue to operate and move to the farm in 2026; events held by the Burrow which enabled 84 people to benefit from ecotherapy; alongside discussions with other potential partners for ecotherapy and partners for habitat enhancement. All our charitable activities and habitat enhancement plans focus on providing access to open space to improve physical and mental health.

The Charity Commission

The Burrow hosted a wide variety of holistic wellbeing events at Tara’s Farm during 2025 where people reconnected with nature. The Burrow has exciting plans for 2026.

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Our partner charity, Change of Scene, was granted planning permission to enable it to continue to operate and from Spring 2026 will provide its services from Wishanger Wellness’ Tara’s Farm for the next 25 years – BBC 19 December 2025, Farnham Herald 30 December 2025. Wishanger Wellness thanks all of those who supported the planning application for this “life saving” charity which provides animal assisted learning to vulnerable youngsters. Without the offer of a lease by Wishanger Wellness of part of Tara’s Farm and the grant of planning permission Change of Scene would have been forced to close.

Volunteers from Surrey County Council helped us and Change of Scene plant over 1000 trees in December as part of the council’s 1.2 million tree strategy (a tree planted in the county for every resident by 2030). The trees have been planted as hedgerow to help connect habitats within Tara’s Farm. We look forward to watching these grow and flourish at the farm and thank the volunteers for their hard work on the day.

Dan & Toby Brown have been on site during November 2025 using their wonderful team of Comptois horses to clear an area of Scots Pine in preparation for heathland regeneration.

We were delighted to be joined by Surrey Wildlife Trust and the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust together with our neighbours from RSPB Farnham Heath and CRT Pierrepont Farm to watch the horses work and discuss opportunities for better connectivity and habitat enhancement between our sites.

If you would like to see more of the horses at work Dan has captured the project on his Instagram

ITV Meridian 7 October 2025

Farnham Herald 11 September 2025

Surrey Live Get Surrey News 5 September 2025

BBC Surrey, Radio, South Today and BBC Surrey News 4 September 2025

Thank you to all those that attended our open morning on Saturday 13 September 2025. Further information can be found about the Change of Scene planning application (WA/2025/01716) on the Waverley planning portal.