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New movement aims to reconnect children with the outdoors

A group of organisations concerned with outdoor play and education have come together to help children get back in touch with nature.

The idea behind the Wild Network, founded by ten organisations including Play England, Play Scotland, Play Wales, the National Trust and RSPB, is to ‘kick-start’ a revolution to reconnect children with the natural world.

As part of this, the Network is working with filmmaker David Bond, to promote his feature length documentary ‘Project Wild Thing’ which will be showing at Picturehouse cinemas across the country from 25 October.

The documentary follows David Bond, father of two, as he launches a marketing campaign to get children outside.

Mr Bond was inspired to make the documentary because of concerns his children spend too much time indoors in front of a screen, threatening to turn them into ‘glassy-eyed zombies’.

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