Curious by Nature London CIC has benefited the community of families in east London by providing quality, accessible outdoor education, raising climate and nature awareness, and encouraging care for local green spaces. Forest school, outdoor learning and self-directed education opportunities are often exclusive to those who can afford it. By providing free and highly subsidised sessions, we have been able to offer them to a more socially and ethnically diverse group of people representative of the population of Newham. We also have been inclusive to children with special educational needs, disabilities and neurodivergence with 13.7% of children attending our sessions from this segment. This year we began holding Forest School sessions specifically for pupils with SEND. During the 2024-25 financial year, over 323 people have attended our sessions and community events. Our Forest School sessions have given over 248 children aged 0-12 years access to active play and learning experience in nature with their peers for 2-4 hours per week. Over 75 adults have attended our sessions including our Foraging Walks, Gardening, Litter Pick, Lantern Walk, Fungus Foray and Family Forest School sessions. This year nearly half (46%) of our Forest School sessions were delivered in partnership with local primary schools in Beckton. Pupils at two local schools benefitted from weekly Forest School sessions, including a session at one school designed specifically to support neurodivergent children and children with special educational needs and disabilities. One school also approached us to hold two assemblies for KS2 students on pollination. We also installed nature trail signage with content created by Curious by Nature and designed by local Artist, Matt Ponting, in Beckton District Park South to educate park users about local flora and fauna, as well as to encourage families to utilise the local park for exercise, exploration and education. This year we started offering traineeship and volunteering programmes for forest school trainees and local residents. We gave the opportunity to 3 forest school trainees to shadow our forest school leaders, plan and run their practice sessions as part of their training. We also recruited 3 volunteers from east London to support our sessions and gain first hand experience in a local forest school setting and working with children outdoors. We held 123 Forest School, nature connection and outdoor learning sessions for children and families including: 36 Afterschool Club sessions 21 SEND Forest School sessions 12 School Holiday sessions 33 Family Forest School sessions 21 Drop Off Forest School sessions We held 8 community events including: 1 Community Litter Pick 7 Outdoor Community Events (nature walks, lantern walk, fungus foray, gardening)

The company’s stakeholders are local families and residents of the area in which we operate (Newham, London). The directors of the company are residents of Newham. Participants were 89.4% Newham residents, 5.3% Barking & Dagenham residents and 5.3% from other east London boroughs (Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Redbridge, Waltham Forest). Participants were 30.7% Asian, 24.8% White, 17.1% Mixed Ethnicity, 14% Black, 3.7% Other Ethnic Group, 2.5% Arab and 7.1% preferred not to say. Participants were 40.1% Muslim, 20.5% Christian, 14.6% No religion, 3.4% Hindu, 1.2% any other religion and 19.6% prefer not to say. We collected written and face to face feedback from our session participants – adults and children – at the end of each term. This feedback has helped us to improve our outdoor education provision, diversify our approach and activities on offer. We asked all adult participants and parents of child participants attending our Forest School sessions and community events to fill in a feedback form at the end of each session or block of sessions booked. The feedback gathered in the 2024- 2025 financial year is mainly qualitative, with participants letting us know what they liked and what could be improved about the running of our sessions, our facilitators and our location. We also gathered informal feedback during parents sharing circles in our weekly sessions.

No remuneration was received

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