Alongside developing understanding of the outdoors as a powerful learning environment, Early Childhood Outdoors works to investigate and promote the enormous therapeutic potential of being outdoors for mental and physical wellbeing.Early Childhood Outdoors connects and enables leading settings working outdoors with the therapeutic elements of play, movement, plants, animals and sensitive adult interaction, both as specific therapeutic interventions and as more general programmes supporting all young children. We’ll work to share learning between these pioneers, across the UK and abroad, and to disseminate such practice more widely, particularly with paediatric health services such as occupational and speech therapy.