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Going Green!
This year we have been fortunate enough to twice collaborate with a local charity called Green Shoes Arts, which specialises in delivering high quality arts projects in Barking & Dagenham and the surrounding area. They were running a brilliant project called Creative Minds, which was funded by ...
Return to Raphael!
We returned to Raphael Park in Romford this week for our latest Walking Group expedition. Our last visit to Romford's best park was over three months ago, so we felt it was time we had another look! As has so often been the case this summer, we were blessed with some good weather for the 3 ...
Thrill of the Chase!
On Monday 18th August, seven of the young people who attend our youth groups joined staff for a walk at Thames Chase Community Forest near Upminster. Thames Chase is a community forest manged by Forestry England, covering 40 square miles of green belt land in east London and south-west Essex. It ...
Masters of the air!
Our third and final day at the Lambourne End Centre for outdoor learning was a mixture of the cerebral and the exhilarating. Some of our young people began their day with a look around the farm. Lambourne is a workijng farm, so all the animals have a purpose, and we met many of the pigs ...
It's a bullseye!
Our second day at Lambourne End was just as busy as the first! In the morning we headed to the climbing wall and the archery range. The climbing wall is deceptively high. From the ground, it doesn't look too daunting, but it's a different view when you're thirty or forty feet in ...
Cleared for take off!
Our favourite event of the year is under way! This Monday we returned to the Lambourne End Centre for outdoor learning for our annual visit and we have picked a fabulous week. Bright sunshine welcomed us as we arrived for our first morning and we had a large and excited crowd with almost 20 youn ...