RECAP: Trail Chat #16 with Pat Farmer On Wednesday evening, before the Tillies took to the pitch, we caught up with Pat Farmer AM from Foster, NSW where he’d just wrapped up his ~5th speaking engagement for the day. Pat is approximately 115 days (who’s counting?!) into a 6-month journey around Australia, running 14,000…
RECAP: Trail Chat #15 with Phil Gore Tuning in from the outskirts of Perth in WA, Phil Gore talked about his experience of Backyard Ultras, including mindset, key learnings, end-of-race goal setting, gear and much more. In case you didn’t know, earlier this year, Phil broke the world record for the longest distance in a backyard…
Pilliga Ultra 2023: Postponed It is with a heavy heart that the FWP Board of Directors, along with the event organising crew have made the decision to postpone the Pilliga Ultra 2023, and push the event date back to September 2024. There are a number of reasons why we came to this difficult decision.…
Want to be an integral part of Pilliga Ultra 2023? For Wild Places is on the search for a Fundraising and Volunteer manager for Pilliga Ultra 2023. We need your help to assist Pilliga Ultra runners to fundraise essential funds to support the communities fighting to save the Pilliga from coal seam gas extraction…
PILLIGA FOREST UPDATE What’s been happening on Gomeroi Country, March 2023 A lot has happened in the Pilliga, since many of us congregated there just under 11 months ago for the inaugural Pilliga Ultra. At the time, Gomeroi mob had returned from a Nation Meeting in Tamworth, during which they came to the consensus…
Want to gain valuable Board experience? For Wild Places is on the search for a new Board Secretary, to help guide and manage the board through what will be our biggest year at FWP yet. Our current Board Secretary, Liz, is stepping down after almost 2 years in the role, as she is…
Join the FWP Crew! 2023 is going to be the biggest year yet at For Wild Places, and we are expanding our team to bring new programs to life and continue to maintain strong governance. Heading into the new year, we are looking to fill three positions. Two of these (paid) positions are to…
Introducing… This month, we are excited to be celebrating AWEgust! For the next 31 days, we’d invite you to share your photos and videos of a moment, place or person that filled you with awe. We want to celebrate the incredible wild places and people that we love to explore and explore with. There…
2022 STRATEGIC REVIEW Over the past few months, the FWP team have been collaborating and connecting to set our goals and strategy for the coming financial year. We’ve accomplished a lot in the ~2 years we’ve been running (pun intended); a lot of which is behind-the-scenes stuff, to create a legitimate not-for-profit, with the aim…
PROJECT RUN FOREVER We’re absolutely stoked with the success of Project Run Forever that took place last weekend. At 7am on Friday 8th April, Tom set out to run the furthest he had ever run. After another flooding event in the days leading up to the run, the course and conditions were brutal. Many…