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TheChildrensWood
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TheChildrensWood
connecting families to nature all year round and creating the conditions for children to play outside in their community.
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More restrictions are being placed upon children's opportunities to play outside in their community and in wild spaces. The current culture is geared towards an more indoor lifestyle. Yet the evidence overwhelmingly shows that greenspace and access to wild spaces and places to play outside are vital for healthy development and well-being of children. The more materialistic our culture becomes the more we need to do to combat the impact of this on our children and the environment. The Children's Wood runs community events and schools programmes which aim to get children playing and learning outside all year round, our events have a strong focus on nature and the community, especially fostering an equal environment for the community.
What we'll deliver:
- We will train 10 community members in Forest School training so that we can run Forest School Clubs for the community.
- Create a sensory garden with raised beds and different plants for increasing a sensory experience for all children
Why it's a great idea:
There is currently no regular initiative in our area to encourage families outside all year round, and to build community. There are also no wild spaces like the meadow and wood locally. The area where the meadow and wood is located is in one of the most unequal areas of the UK and so has the potential to make an impact on the issues associated with inequality, especially child well-being. Some children who use the meadow and wood say that this is the first time they have been outside to play this year, or ever.
Steps to get it done:
- Lots of volunteers
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We're a volunteer community group dedicated to getting children outside and connected to nature. The piece of land we use to get children outside is an unusal urban community greenspace. The land was once playing fields for the local school and is a highly valued community resource which is now a meadow and a wood, with raised beds and an orchard. The land is currently under threat - Glasgow City Council want to sell the land to build luxury housing. We think this is a transgression of the human rights of children in the area. Once the land is gone there will be no-where in the community for children to play outside in wild space or for the community to meet up.
Fifteen schools can walk to the land for outdoor learning. The community run events every 2 - 4 weeks and also put on school programmes which tie into these community events. There have been over 60 events over the last year and half including Forest School Clubs, Reindeer parades, the West-end Festival and more. Everyone involved is a volunteer and we have achieve so much with only £1500 worth of funding, everything else has been through donations.
We have plans to do so much more, but funding is stopping us from achieving this. We are hoping to raise money for the following projects:
- We have 10 volunteers who are willing to run a Forest School Club co-operative once trained in level 1, 2 and 3 Forest School Training. They will deliver a Forest School Club every week in the Children's Wood. We need £6,000 to pay for funding. This will be a sustainable club as the volunteers have agreed to sign a contract which means if they give up volunteering before a year is up they have yo pay back the training in full.
- We plan to develop a sensory garden for the local special needs schools and for children in general. We need £2,000 to achieve this. We will put in special raised beds and create an A - Z of flowers, herbs and different plants
- We want to work with the schools running transition courses for pre school children moving on to primary school. This will cost us £3,000. We successfully carried out transition courses last year which were highly beneficial for the students involved and made the transition to school much easier.
Project Delivery Manager: The Children's Wood The Project Delivery Manager takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Contractor: Forest School Training The team responsible for building or installing the project.
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