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Funding Boost for Outdoor Play Across Scotland
Children and families across Scotland will soon benefit from expanded outdoor play opportunities, as 41 organisations receive funding to develop local initiatives. ...
Global Perspectives on Outdoor Play: Lessons from Scotland and Australia
Photo credit: Robert Kennedy, Baltic Street Adventure Playground Across Glasgow, Thrive Outdoors is supporting a range of innovative ...
Henry Mathias’s Reflections on the Inclusive Outdoor Play Knowledge Exchange
Thrive Outdoors hosted a Knowledge Exchange event on inclusive outdoor play at Stirling University on Thursday 6 November. ...
New funding and support for rural communities to increase outdoor play opportunities
Applications Open: 1 September 2025 Deadline: 12 noon, 22 September 2025 Inspiring Scotland, on behalf of the Scottish ...
Thrive Outdoors Joins 1% for the Planet
Thrive Outdoors has joined 1% for the Planet as an environmental partner! We hope that this partnership will ...
Infant Mental Health Week and launch of ‘Starting Out to Play’: a new resource
There is widespread acknowledgement that being outdoors (especially in greenspace) has a positive impact on our health and ...
Introducing a Systems Thinking Approach to Considering Outdoor Play: Nature Play Website
Developing or enhancing outdoor and nature-based play opportunities within Early Learning and Childcare settings seems simple, just step ...
The Power of Partnerships: a new Masters level microcredential, Leading and Enhancing Community Learning Outdoors
For Thrive Outdoors, our vision for a sustainable Scotland where our children and young people can play, learn ...
Thrive Outdoors Leadership Programme: A six-month update from our cohort 2 leaders
The Thrive Outdoors Leadership Programme, launched in 2022, is a bespoke six-month programme designed to empower leaders in ...
Outdoor activity suggestions for Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week
Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, 3rd - 9th February 2025 To mark Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, we ...
Supporting Scotland’s children through play!
Meet Quarry Brae Primary School - champions of Active Play! Scotland currently has a crisis in physical ...
Every Day is Outdoor Classroom Day!
About ‘Outdoor Classroom Day’ Outdoor Classroom Day happens twice a year, every year and is a global celebration ...
Our Impact 2023/24
Thrive Outdoors would like to thank all the partners and supporters from across the private, public and voluntary ...
The Power of Sport and Physical Activity since the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
Earlier this month, some of the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners hosted a workshop at the ...
Getting started with loose parts play
“Environments full of loose parts lend themselves to a blurring of distinctions between learning and playing, allowing children ...
Introducing the graduates of the first Thrive Outdoors Leadership Programme
The first ever Thrive Outdoors Leadership programme finished last week with all 21 graduates coming together to celebrate. ...
IPA 2023 in pictures
After five years in the making, the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors fund team gathered in Glasgow last month ...
More funding for children across Scotland to access Outdoor Community Play
Minister for Children, young people and keeping the Promise, Natalie Don visited Kirlandneuk Community Centre this week to ...
Q&A with Wild Child – Childminding
This week’s guest blog is from Wild Child – Childminding Adventures. In this blog we sat down with ...
What did you do before the streetlights came on?
The Scottish Government released their child poverty update in April 2023, which found that 18% of children in ...
Caring for Outdoor Spaces, new guidance from Scottish Government’s Out to Play series
New guidance on Caring for Outdoor Spaces from the Scottish Government’s Out to Play series has launched. Thrive ...