Outdoor education centre Hill End, is calling for help from the community, schools and businesses after its closure.

The Oxford outdoor centre has started welcoming back children and wants business and schools to use its facilities, to come for a corporate day, to book a tutor to visit your school, or make a donation to support the charity.

This year marks Hill End’s 100th anniversary, with the University of Oxford’s Wytham Woods, and 2020 was due to be a year of celebrations and fundraising. Covid-19 meant plans were rearranged and the next few months will be hugely challenging.

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Hill End centre director Selby Dickinson said: “Getting outdoors has so many benefits for learning, health and wellbeing, and people have really come to appreciate this during the pandemic.

"But we need to make sure that Hill End is still able to do that in future, and that’s why we are asking people who care about what we do to support us – to benefit themselves and also others in future”.