Always great to see our #awardees being celebrated in the news! #socent Congratulations Kinder Croft CIC ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/wester-ro…

Did you know there are now 32 #OutdoorELC🌱settings operating in Scotland?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 That's 77% increase in less than a year. The yellow pins are new #PVI and #SocialEnterprise sites at various stages from planning to pre-registration. #Outdoorlearning is growing!

Thank-you Firstport for Social Entrepreneurs! Your #startit funding allowed us to open our doors a couple of months ago and now we have more children enrolled than we had ever anticipated! #forestnursery #ullapool #thankyou

It’s chilly at our #outdoornursery in the far North West Highlands today but #thanks to #funding from @UllapoolHarbour Trust our kids are kitted out in snug waterproofs from #muddypuddles! #worldoutdoorclassroomday #ullapool #thankyou

We often describe woodland crofts as #familyforestry, but this is a whole new take on it! Fantastic to see Merlin, one our 'champions', developing this enterprise on her woodland croft.

A delightful clip from BBC Alba showing what the kids get up to at the nursery! #forestnursery #ullapool

Way hay! We won ‘Best Environmental Social Enterprise’ at the Social Enterprise Scotland Awards. Our beautiful prize was made by Calvin McCleish from Space Artworks #socentawards19

The news we’ve been waiting for! We can now offer funded funded places from January for all eligible 3-5 year olds. #fundingfollowsthechild #forestnursery #childledplay #ullapool

Loving the new Stramash yurt! A cosy space under canvas. We’re looking into yurts to develop our own outdoor nursery facilities.

Now the leaves have fallen and the days are colder story time called for some new kit to keep everyone cosy. This is how we do story time now! The kids getting cosy in their new sleeping bags kindly supplied by North West Outdoors at a great price 🙂 #thankyou #kindercroftlife

Watching the sun slowly rise from home base before planning an adventure through the woods up to a vantage point to see the views up and down Lochbroom. #kindercroftlife #forestnursery #outdoorlearning #canonzoom

At last, something for the grown ups! By popular demand we are doing a wee experiment and will be running a few informal taster sessions for adults over the winter. The first ones are covering charcoal making. #artistscharcoal #barbecue #ullapool #woodlandcroft

Thanks to everyone who braved the elements to come to our very first Kinder Croft Mhor session for adults today! Some experimenting with tree species lead to some lovely results and wee gift bundles for some lucky people this Christmas!

The mince pies are out of the oven, the mulled apple juice is prepped and the chestnuts are ready for the campfire. Come and join us tomorrow to celebrate the end of the term and find out all about what’s been happening at Kinder Croft this year and our plans for the year ahead.

I personally welled up a bit when our manager Stephanie mentioned the kids having made it through the winter and how they are now missing spring, the first one since opening. #outdoorplay #forestnursery #missingthekids

Evidence report on COVID19 & children’s play shows that benefits of children playing outside outweigh risks & calls for evidence based decisions. The report, prepared at the request of the Play Safety Forum is here playscotland.org/resources/covi… Maree Todd Aileen Campbell John Swinney