A group in Birmingham is tapping into a growing consciousness of the need for unsupervised outdoors play
When Naomi Fisher took her eight-year-old son to the country park in Birmingham where she spent much of her childhood exploring with her friends, he asked why he was not allowed to go off by himself.
“I couldn’t even give a good reason why not. It’s just isn’t done anymore, nobody lets their kids do that,” said Fisher, a community architect. “I had some conversations and it seemed my generation had all experienced that kind of play from seven or eight years old and yet it had virtually disappeared now.”
