Hailing from East Keswick, Yorkshire, Elliker is an outdoor company that’s been on the WCH lineup for a few years. Originally specialising in bags, Elliker has evolved into a clothing brand, providing gear for everyday usage. Not to be confused with Keswick, Lake District, East Keswick is a…
With the hectic Christmas season finally behind us, the team here at WCH have finally had a bit of spare time on our hands to get stuck back into our woodland work – which is exactly what we did last week. Returning to an ancient forest plantation we…
Another one for the history books! Friday was a blast, a massive thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate our launch party with Irvings, what a turnout it was. If you’re still in the market for a collab piece, we still have some of the caps…
Last week we were back out in the woods – it’s been too long! The team had been invited by Cumbria Woodlands to explore one of Britain’s temperate rainforests. In the morning, we took a closer look at the forest floor to see what’s happening beneath the canopy.…
Working Class Heroes was established in 2006, initially selling skate, surf and street clothing from all around the globe to the good people of Ulverston. As WCH has grown, so has the brand mix, website and shop. We’ve been in our current location for the past 12 years, after…
As you may have already seen here at Working Class Heroes we love getting ourselves stuck into local environmental projects, while the majority of our work has focused on woodland projects we are also keen to get stuck into other causes. We have recently been expanding our horizons…
We’re back in the woods again (we can’t keep ourselves away) with the help of Olivia from The Lake District National Park. Our task this time is to help get rid of some invasive Himalayan Balsam, a plant that much like bracken which we have bashed in the…
This week, we visited The Coppice Co-op at their base in Slack Head to test our hand and eye coordination and make some handmade wooden stools. We’ve been joined by the Coppice Co-op on some of our previous woodland excursions, and today’s visit offered us a great beginner…
This week we joined up with Cumbria Woodlands and The Lake District National Park to do some bracken bashing and tree tagging. Our team this time consisted of: Liam, Euan and Ellysha. We were also joined by Jamie from Cumbria Woodlands and Olivia from the LDNP. Although bracken…
Spring is here and the team is once again back in the woods. This week we were tasked with doing a bit of Spring cleaning, we finished what we started last time and got a few other jobs under our belts too. The first task of the day…
