Category: General Information

The Scottish Advisory Panel for Outdoor Education (SAPOE) has released a Position Statement about Securing the future of Local Authority Outdoor Learning

The proposed closure of Delamont Outdoor Education Centre in County Down has been postponed

This report from the Sport and Recreation Alliance details the Economic, Health and Social Value of Outdoor Recreation

Video footage of Sir Julian Brazier defending the quality of UK adventure education on 16th January 2017, as part of the Campaign for Adventure and the AALA Review

As indicated in previous emails, EC-OE is pleased to let you know that we obtained a positive judgment by the ’Tribunal Administratif de Lyon’ (Fr) regards the Simon Butler case (+ 6 other UK ski instructors)

Mr Robin Swann, the Ulster Unionist Party Assemblyman for North Antrim and Stormont Public Accounts Committee Chair, has called on the Stormont Executive “to do the decent, sensible thing and suspend the consultation on the proposed closure of the much-needed Bushmills Outdoor Education Centre”

The battle for the future of the closure-threatened Bushmills Outdoor Education Centre will switch to Stormont next week

The University of Edinburgh are hosting at a public lecture by Clare Dallat on Thursday January 5th 2017 entitled: More than ‘People, Equipment and Environment’: The systems approach to risk management in the outdoors

There was plenty of community catching up at the recent Cowal Area Network held in the Creggans Inn, Strachur

Twenty MPs from six political parties took part in a Westminster debate yesterday which praised the huge economic, educational, environmental and health benefits of the outdoors and highlighted the work of the BMC several times