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Strapped for cash but want to transform your setting's outdoor space? Gail Ryder Richardson has lots of ideas, and why not try your hand at our competition for some help Have you ever looked at your outdoor space and felt that you are not exploiting its full potential for play and learning? Have you tried to improve the space but felt demoralised by the lack of support and funding? Has it become yet another demand on your time and energy?

Have you ever looked at your outdoor space and felt that you are not exploiting its full potential for play and learning? Have you tried to improve the space but felt demoralised by the lack of support and funding? Has it become yet another demand on your time and energy?

Lots of early years practitioners feel that developing their outside space is just too big a project to tackle, and so yet another season goes by with children being deprived of the special opportunities for learning that outdoor experiences can offer.

However, with enthusiasm and ingenuity (and a little bit of money) many early years providers have transformed their outdoor space into vibrant environments full of ideas for supporting children's development.

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