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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Come in and join our photo walk and enjoy the beauty of nature. Our photo walk is designed to encourage people to get closer to nature and enjoy a day out and capture photos of things that they find interesting along the way. No experience is required, you only need your camera or mobile phone…

Ecotherapy refers to a range of different facilitated and supported activities that take place outdoors and that aim to increase peoples’ contact and connection with the natural world. They can take place in one to one or group settings and include diverse activities from a walk in the park to gardening to wilderness trips. Connecting…