Outdoors = Better Health
How Can the Natural Environment Affect Mental Health and Wellbeing? see Dr William Bird 'Natural Thinking'
Young Speakers – a new adventure
Young Speakers – New for our better World Adventure is where you find it, this we have known for a long time. Who and what you are defines what you find adventurous. Campaign for Adventure stands for all adventure – its founding document states 'life is best lived through a spirit of adventure'. We particularly […]
Dragon’s Den Simon Woodroffe
Children need risk to thrive as adults, says Dragons’ Den judge Rosemary Bennett, Social Affairs Correspondent, The Times The obsessive “safety-first” culture in schools will rob Britain of the next generation of entrepreneurs just when the country needs them most, a leading businessmen has claimed. Simon Woodroffe, founder of Yo! Sushi and a judge on […]
Teachers at Risk – BBC
Thousands of teachers ‘at risk’ False accusations are a ‘blight’ on teaching says the NASUWT Thousands of teaching careers are being destroyed by heavy handed child protection procedures, teachers’ unions and an MP have claimed. One union leader told BBC File On 4, that teachers facing complaints are "guilty until proved innocent." Barry Sheerman, chair […]
Self harm and lack of inspirational life linked
SANE research into self harm – the evidence exists that, if society is dumbed down sufficiently, stimulating behaviours will emerge. Such is the now-emerging evidence of the over-crowded laboratory rat experiments of the '60s. The question being asked is how many other correlations and even direct links to increasing social behaviours of self-harm, aggression, selfishness, […]
Communities Benefit from Court Decisions
Roy Amlot QC, past Chair, The Bar Council, addressed members on “Changes in Law of Compensation in Sport, Play, Education, Recreation and Communities”. “Teachers, sports instructors and workers with our children and young people, including parents, are at the heart of UK society and all our futures. Freedom to explore, to experience and to […]
BBC Risk Article
In today's "cotton-wool culture", children, it's often claimed, are rarely left to learn from life's hard knocks. Instead, adults tend to adopt a safety-first approach, even if the risk amounts to little more than a grazed knee http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7869540.stm
CSEC – LASER (Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk)
RoSPA February 9, 2009 NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY EDUCATION COALITION ESTABLISHED – CSEC – LASER (Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk)Equipping children and young people with the skills to manage their exposure to danger is the aim of a new national coalition. The coalition will also recognise that bumps, scrapes and disappointments are part of growing […]
Parliamentary group to review compensation
Parliamentary group to review compensation Westminster – All party group on Adventure and Risk, will receive an update on the place of compensation in UK courts. The address will be provided by Roy Amlot, QC and supported by the Campaign for Adventure. The meeting will take place on Wednesday 11th February, in Westminster Palace with […]
Entrepeneurs – born or made
Entrepreneurs – born or made? Research shows risky decision-making essential to entrepreneurialism Whether someone will become the next Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or Henry Ford may be down to whether they make risky decisions, scientists at the University of Cambridge have concluded. The article, published today in the journal Nature, asserts that entrepreneurs are riskier […]