Our Story
The problem every parent knows
It's a wet Tuesday, or just a free Saturday, and you're in your kitchen wondering where you can go as a family today.
You know there are wonderful places near you. A woodland walk that's beautiful in the autumn. A local farm that sells the best ice cream. A museum, an adventure playground, a castle, a nature reserve. But finding them, the ones worth the petrol, means trawling through search engines, half-remembered recommendations, and group chats that vanish the moment you need them. These places are out there, they're just impossibly hard to find, and even harder to keep hold of.
The other side of the same problem
Now think about it from the other side, from the lens of the people who own and run these wonderful places.
Up and down the country there are brilliant, characterful, family-run venues, the independent farm, the little activity centre, the museum with heart, quietly supporting families and struggling to be found. They're competing for attention against big chains with big budgets, on platforms that were never built for them.
There are families who struggle to find great days out, and there are great days out that can't find these families! Nest and Feathers exists to close that gap.
Why us
We're Bryony & Marcus, parents to four, building this platform from our own kitchen table in Oxford for roughly 6 months before launching in late August 2026.
Like a lot of families, we've spent years hunting for good places to take our children, and losing the best recommendations the moment we needed them. We've cared enough about how our own children spend their days to think hard about it, and that's where the idea was born.
We needed all that scattered wisdom, the places families genuinely love, in one warm, trustworthy place, kept by the families who know them best.
What we're building
Nest and Feathers is a place where families discover and share the best places to take their children, together.
Feathers are the places you love, pinned to a map and brought to life by the families who've actually been there, real recommendations from real families near you. Your Nest is your family's home in the community, where your feathers are gathered. And the flock is all of us, helping each other find the next great day out, one recommendation at a time.
For families, it's the end of guesswork. Search by age, by cost, by whether it's indoors when the rain sets in, and find somewhere that actually suits your family today.
The first feathers on the map are ours, because someone had to go first. Everything after that comes from other families.
Whoever you are, there's a place for you here
Every family deserves an easier way to find the good stuff, and every great local place deserves to be discovered. Whether you're planning weekends, you've moved to a new town and don't know where to start, you're trying to fill the holidays, or just looking for somewhere new this afternoon, come and join us.
Head outside. Join the flock.
