Outdoors For You teams up with Paths For All
We are delighted to announce that we have teamed up with Paths For All to provide weekly health walks in Glasgow. The Scottish charity champions and promotes everyday walking as regular exercise and works to get more people to be part of the Happier Healthier Scotland initiative. Details of our weekly walks are below. If…
The CEMVO Scotland Ethnic Minority Impact Awards
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the @cemvoscot EMI Awards 2019 in the Social Enterprise category! A massive thank you from all the team to those who nominated us. We are hugely grateful for the support and look forward to attending the awards night in November.
European Outdoors Film Tours 2019 – 2020
Big thank you to European Outdoors Film Tours 2019 – 2020 for their amazing generosity in providing a few tickets for our clients to attend as guests on 11 Nov for the Glasgow tours. The opportunity to share in their passion and enthusiasm for the outdoors makes this a very exciting evening that all the team…
National Lottery Community Development Fund
Outdoors For You team hugely grateful to continue our progress with being awarded funding from the National Lottery Community Development Fund. To be recognised for our commitment to improve the lives of those in the community, through enabling them to experience the benefits of nature, is an honour and we thank them for that. So…
FirstPort
We would like to show our sincere appreciation to FirstPort for providing our intial start-up funding. This has enabled us to organise some initial walks and marketing to draw attention to the merits of what our project is trying to achieve. The feedback we have received on the walks we have carried out, and on…
The Art Walk Sat 28th Sep
Walking as an artform is a meditative, therapeutic and poetic experience and it can also be a greatly social one. This walk is especially designed for Asylum seekers and Refugees. We leads group art walk workshops in which the intent is to encourage others to examine their surroundings in a deeper way. To create with…
Family walk Sunday 13th Oct 2019
Come in and join our Family Walk on Sunday 13th Oct. Our Families in Nature walk provides a great opportunity for refugee families and asylum-seeking families to escape into nature and take the opportunity to reconnect with each other and nature.Families taking part will be encouraged to get to know more about Scotland’s beautiful outdoors…
Walk and Talk – Sunday 27th Oct 2019
Come in and join our Walk and Talk on Sunday 27th Oct 2019. Older people can often suffer from loneliness as well as physical and social challenges – and this can be even more for people from Asian and black and minority ethnic groups. Cultural differences and language barriers can make it even harder to…
Multicultural Walk – First section of West Highland Way Sunday 11th Aug 2019
Come in and join our Multicultural walk to walk first section of West Highland Way from Milingave to Dumgoyne. This walk is particularly designed to help refugees and asylum seekers to connect to each other and local community and get the opportunity to discover the beautiful landscape of Scotland. It is great for people who…
Mindfulness walk – Sunday 15th Sep 2019
Come in and join us for a Mindfulness Walk on Sunday 15th Sep. This walk is especially designed for asylum seekers and refugees who are looking for some quiet time in nature to refresh their body and mind. We will walk calmly and in silence, paying attention to the present moment rather than past or…