How it began

The story so far.

I have spent over a decade helping brands and people show up in the world, as a photographer, a creative director and now a visibility coach. I know the power of being in the right room. But I kept noticing the same thing: the rooms women were being invited into were loud, transactional, and left them feeling more alone than when they arrived.

I am based in Poole, Dorset, where the sea is not a backdrop, it is a way of life. It felt like the most natural place in the world to build something around it. Wild + Gathered started as one supper club and has grown into seasonal dinners, a monthly sauna and sea ritual, creative workshops with local partners, sound baths, and soon a two-day retreat by the sea. Most of all, it has become a community of women who actually show up for each other.

This is for the creatives, the founders, the makers, the mothers. Women who are building something, raising someone, or simply reclaiming a little space for themselves, and who want connection that goes deeper than what you do and who you know.