Getting Out There
Discover the effect of the natural world on your body, mind and soul!
Our Getting Out There Programme offers a year-round programme of day-trips, weekends away, longer camps and residential’s for young people, families, and groups in the Bristol and Somerset areas. This programme is all about appreciating the value of nature in helping you get away from it all, learn new skills, try new activities, develop new ways of working and enhance your creative work.
It comprises day trips, weekends away, camps, residentials, volunteer progression opportunities, training and work experience.
Getting Out There connects inner city communities with City Farms, Rural Community Farms, woodland managers, protected landscapes and campsites. It makes links between young people and families from Bristol and urban Somerset with the natural environment through a stepping-stone approach.
It offers opportunities at local sites, venues close to towns as well as further a field in ‘deeper country’ such as Exmoor National Park. All include activities that have proven popular with young people and families - be it arts, music, media, bush craft, forest school or other outdoor activities. The approach is designed to allow everyone to be able to access a variety of natural/rural places in the future and to build new relationships across cultural and geographical divides.
Take a look at some photos, films and audio made to date: Media
– Do get in touch if you want to get out there…
“The stars, I’ve never seen so many beautiful stars like that before. You don’t see them in the morning but they’re always there. They look so beautiful and they shine so it makes you feel safe. Even if you’re walking in the dark, the stars are just out there looking out for you, and it’s like they protect you from harm." Talulah, 14, at Doris Intercultural Summer School
The ‘Getting Out There’ programme is supported by Natural England through “Access to Nature” as part of the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme