The Pear Tree Fund and Kinda Education, through the umbrella of Compassionate Communities, ran a year long project inviting people to Kaliwoods and the Pear Tree Centre to talk and walk around the ideas of love, life and end of life. ‘Time in our Life’ plants a seed to nurture a compassionate community in Halesworth and surrounding area.
The Pear Tree supports cradle to grave, local community well being, the edges of well being, including death and dying, that are often not addressed by the main stream systems. Kinda Education promotes kindness through nature connection also cradle to grave, specialising in children with Kinda Forest school.
This project embraces death and dying, aptly starting at Samhain, the time to recall on our ancestors, when the veil between life and the death thin. We open up a conversation often hidden under a table cloth, of something we all experience, the end of our brief lives. A reflection of our own life path, celebrating connection with nature, the natural cycles and systems in the Wood Wild Web, or inside where the Pear Tree grows.
We are grateful for funding and support from Compassionate Communities and Suffolk County Council through Annette Dunning – without this support we could not engage with this project and all those who have been on the journey with us.
We met once a month, either in the wood or the Pear Tree.
October 31st 2021 – October 31st 2022



It’s Spring, Saint Brigid’s day, the time the earth begins to warm up, snowdrops break through, the wheel turns, we’re coming out of our winter hibernation. It is the time to begin the talking, writing, drawing, time to turn our mind.

Equinox – Sunday 20th March Gathering to share the music which has shaped our lives during our special Desert Island Discs event. Compassionate conversations, to talk openly about love, life, and end of life and begin or contribute to a ‘This is your Life’ book


An an invitation to explore the question why do we find it so difficult to talk about death and dying? Using the socratic method.


Here is what we wove at our first event, October 2021.

