Category Archives: Outdoor

Aligned to her work with Every Child Should Anita explores, in this blog, entitlement passports and presents her tips for developing your own.

A blog on EveryChildShould on the importance of the outdoors. In the blog Anita reflects on her personal reasons for believing in the benefits of the outdoors, and invites you to reflect on what the outdoors means to you.

Part of my work over 2018 through Every Child Should is to look at the importance of outdoor learning and connections to nature for every child. My own personal experiences as a lover of adventurous activities, combined with the work I have done over the years with organisations that work in this field, has shown me the value of this work on well-being and happiness.

As someone who has publicly acknowledged the impact connections to nature in supporting my own struggles with mental illness it was pleasing to see the formal acknowledgement from DEFRA of the importance of outdoor experiences on mental well-being.

Ecotherapy. I confess I rolled my eyes at the title. An attempt to medicalise the language attached to something many of us just know to be true – being outside makes us feel better. But, if the word further embeds outdoor experiences into approaches to mental health the title works for me.
Anita Kerwin-Nye leads the Every Child Should Campaign and is a key note speaker at the CLOtC conference on 16 November 2017.