From Screens to Soil: Corporate Volunteering Partnership Launched on Protected Private Estate in Heart of Ashdown Forest

From Screens to Soil: Corporate Volunteering Partnership Launched on Protected Private Estate in the Heart of Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest, East Sussex – As organisations grapple with digital overload, hybrid fragmentation and rising complexity, Thorp Coaching today launches a distinctive leadership and conservation experience on private protected land at Pippingford Estate, in the heart of East Sussex’s Ashdown Forest.

The programme responds to a modern leadership tension: teams are constantly connected yet increasingly stretched, while leaders face mounting pressure to innovate in a volatile commercial landscape. Many organisations report strong technical collaboration, but weaker relational cohesion and limited space for deep strategic thinking.

Pippingford Estate is a privately managed landscape designated under three separate Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its woodland, heathland and freshwater systems. The estate is not open to the public; access is strictly by invitation.

A New Kind of Leadership Work, Grounded in Nature

Thorp Coaching was founded by Emma Thorp, an accredited executive coach (ICF ACC, EMCC Senior Practitioner) and former board-level commercial leader with over 15 years’ experience across life sciences, technology and professional services.

Her work is guided by three principles:

Building Capacity for Complexity
Enabling leaders and teams to navigate ambiguity, interdependencies and trade-offs without defaulting to oversimplified solutions that weaken organisational resilience.

Whole Human Leadership
Recognising that performance, cognition and relationships are interconnected and that