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Email
Free to be Kids
Address
Living Space
1 Coral St
London
SE1 7BE
Website
Beneficiaries
- Arab community
- Bangladeshi community
- Black African-Caribbean community
- Chinese community
- Eastern and central European communities
- Children and families
- Young people
- People with learning disabilities
- People with mental health issues
Activities
- Education/Play (children/young people)
Description
Free To Be supports particularly vulnerable children to begin to change their stories about who they are, and who they can be. We help children who have often grown up with significant adversity or hardship to more often feel proud of themselves and to experience feeling brave, adventurous, included and successful - often for the first time in a long time. We do this via overnight adventures and nature based residentials; after-school groups; and mentoring support. We work using the inherent power of the outdoors, animals, nature and self-expression - all of which are integral to the programmes we run. Children experience meeting animals at the farm, building dens in the forest, building rafts in teams to paddle across a lake, standing on the beach for the first time, cooking together in groups, camping out under the stars and a wide range of other activities all carefully designed to both broaden horizons, but also to scaffold the building of self-confidence, resilience, and trust in others.