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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - A problem shared

Sharing your outdoor space, or even just the corridors that lead to it, can restrict when and how you use your outside provision. Ginny Wright, from Learning through Landscapes, explores the issues.

If you are an early years setting operating from the likes of a church hall, leisure centre or scout hut, then it's likely that you have to share your outdoor space with other users.

Shared spaces can be a challenge, bringing with them common problems such as access, storage and conflicting priorities with other users, so careful planning is required. However, as long as you are willing to communicate and work effectively with everyone that uses the space, it is possible to create a usable, organised and interesting outdoor area that everyone, especially the children, can enjoy spending time in. And they do enable you to build relationships within your community and to increase your fundraising efforts.

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