Love Outdoor Projects
Love Outdoors projects
Love Outdoors CIC is about breaking down barriers to getting outside so that communities can get outdoors to improve health and wellbeing and reduce social isolation. We are a social enterprise which means that we are a business with purpose and that any surplus profits get reinvested back in to the business for the benefit of the community, or in to projects that directly benefit the community.
The Willow Incredible Garden
The Willow Garden is an exciting project that is currently transforming an under-utilised grassy area, in to a fantastic community garden in the grounds of Forton Road Medical Centre, Gosport. Progress has been fantastic but we still have lots to do. If you’d like to get involved and potentially join our Willow Welly and Wellbeing group, you can find out more here.
Find Your Thing
Find Your Thing is a project that aims to inspire people to get outside and move more. The project is funded by Hampshire Active Health fund for one year, although there is a commitment to a legacy project of three years and beyond. We have been carrying out creative community engagement, working with our partners Seekers Create CIC, to find out what activities people would like to try and from this we will run blocks of activities alongside our roving Thingfests- a chance to try out lots of different activities in one place. Find out more and get involved here.
Our pilot Wellbeing in the Park project in 2023 helped inform Find Your Thing. Find out what we did here.
This website
This website is a very important part of Love Outdoors CIC. It enables you to find places to go, things to do, local events and businesses. It also allows you to connect with communities interested in the outdoors and find out about the projects we are involved in.
Our website is only as good as what is put in to it though, so we would love you, our community, to add your places and events, and find out how else you can Get Involved and volunteer with us.