Thrive Outdoors conducted a survey with the aim of creating a holistic view of organisations in the outdoor play sector including where and how they operate, as well as the key challenges that they face.
Outdoor play plays a crucial role in ensuring the emotional, social, and physical wellbeing of children and young people. Following the covid-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis it has been more important than ever that outdoor play is available for all children and young people across Scotland.
After a strategy planning session, you will want to log everything down in an action plan. We’ve provided two templates – one in Word and one in Excel to get you started. Begin with your big strategic priority and work your want down to the detail of the specific actions or activity you will undertake,
Read MoreThis brief literature review by the University of Strathclyde PhD student Avril Johnstone provides the background literature to the evaluation of Inspiring Scotland’s Active Play Programme. The evaluation has the following research question: does the implementation of an active play programme improve physical activity levels and fundamental movement skills competency in children?
Read MoreDr. Mark Tremblay of HALO Research and Prof. John Reilly of the University of Strathclyde discuss childhood inactivity levels in Canada and Scotland from the Active Healthy Kids Report Card 2016 – one of the reasons we strive for physically active outdoor play for all of Scotland’s children.
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