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The Trustee Board of IOL plays a vital role in governance and strategy steering and holding accountable the Institute’s executive.  As with all well managed boards there is a healthy turnover of trustees and offices within it.

The University of Plymouth was the venue for a successful Peninsula Research in Outdoor Learning event in January.

The MAGIC website provides authoritative geographic information about the natural environment from across government. The information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain.

A council leader has accused three neighbouring authorities of being "short-sighted" over the demise of an outdoor education service.

A centre at Talybont, Powys, will close after Newport and Torfaen scrapped funding for the Gwent Outdoor Education Service Partnership, with Blaenau Gwent saying it would follow suit.

The Department for Education’s Consultation on a “voluntary safeguarding code of practice” provides an opportunity for the outdoor industry to steer government with sector specific insights.  It’s important that, in drawing up its guidelines, the DfE have a balanced view which includes the outdoor activity providers perspective.  The settings  cited by the DfE  as ‘out of school’ do not explicitly refer to outdoor activities (although scouting and guiding, for example,  do involve elements of this).