
TYT 2025
Our Oaken Bones: Healing Ourselves by Saving Britain’s Rainforests. An evening with Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
About the event
Reeling from the pain of devastating miscarriages and PTSD after military service in Afghanistan, Merlin Hanbury-Tenison and his wife Lizzie returned to his childhood home – a struggling Cornish hill farm on Bodmin Moor. There they discovered that the overgrazed and damaged woods were in fact one of the UK’s last fragments of Atlantic temperate rainforest.
What followed was a deeply personal journey of recovery, resilience, renewal and the start of a mission to protect one of the world’s most endangered habitats.
Merlin, a Cornish conservationist and founder of The Thousand Year Trust, will share his remarkable true story, the astonishing healing power of nature, and how we can help restore Britain’s lost rainforests.
Early booking recommended
📅 Date: Thursday 23rd October 2025
🕢 Time: 7:30pm🎟 Tickets: £10
📍 Venue: Peel Centenary Centre
Please note: there is limited parking near the venue, so please plan ahead and car share where possible - thank you.