Outdoor Education centres have had a particular difficult year. They have been unable to operate face to face events, and when they became possible, were unable to have students staying overnight away from home, and also many then found themselves in a tier which didn't allow transport into them or out of them.
The last centre I visited was Preston Montford for a GA Trustees weekend where we finalised the wording of the GA's Strategy 2020-25. More to come on that as we head into 2021.
Cranedale Centre in North Yorkshire is one I'm familiar with, having visited a few times many years ago...
Here's a tweet of theirs from earlier in the week which showed the scale of the problem.
One empty welly for each of the 119 schools that couldn't stay with us this year. We have missed you and hope to see you in 2021!
— Cranedale Centre (@CranedaleCentre) December 16, 2020
Please sign the petition to support all the outdoor education centres that have stood empty since March. https://t.co/uswTlvY4wo #saveoutdoored pic.twitter.com/W3jSlwHYI8
The petition they refer to can be signed here.
As you can see, they need quite a few more thousand signatories to have any sort of government response - although we know that even when they get millions of signatures they are still generally ignored.
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