6 million reasons to celebrate Global Outdoor Learning Day
Jake Wiid, Director, EVOLVE Advice on the importance of Global Outdoor Learning Day.
Global Outdoor Learning Day is celebrated on 21 November each year to promote the positive impact of outdoor learning on education and personal development.
In our world of educational visits, we see evidence of this when we watch children and young people reflecting on the human cost of war at the battlefields, soaking up the applause in a public concert, facing their fears at the top of an abseil tower, or simply delighting in discovering insects in a pond.
In the year to September 2025, our community of around 4,500 schools ran an incredible 326,565 educational visits, creating memories for over six million children and young people*.
This Global Learning Day we’re celebrating the individuals involved in making these memorable experiences possible. Educational Visits Coordinators (EVCs), Visit Leaders, Bursars, Heads, Safeguarding and Allergy Leads, Teaching Assistants, office staff and volunteers each play an important part in the success of these formative and enriching experiences.
Our EVC of the Year Award is a great opportunity to highlight the often unseen work that goes into organising educational visits. This global award recognises an outstanding EVC for their leadership, innovation, and commitment to safe and inspiring educational trips. Entries close on 30 November. Apply or nominate here.
Today, we’re also proud to be an awards partner at the School Travel Awards, celebrating the contribution of providers in the category Best Residential Experience. At EVOLVE Advice our work brings us into regular contact with a range of providers where we meet passionate people, who really care about making every visit count.
School trips are now widely recognised as an important part of every child’s education. This Global Outdoor Learning Day, with a renewed emphasis on enrichment in the Curriculum and Assessment Review, and positive progress for legislation on entitlement to outdoor learning making its way through the Scottish and UK Parliament, I’m feeling optimistic about the future of learning beyond the classroom.
*total number of visits submitted to EVOLVE by EVOLVE Advice clients between 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025. Participants data is the individual children and young people on each visit (6,265,589). Some individuals may attend more than one visit and will be counted each time.
About EVOLVE Advice
EVOLVE Advice provides educational visits advice and guidance to over 4,500 schools and educational settings in the UK and overseas. Their experienced advisers also train teachers and school staff to help them deliver safe and memorable educational visits, supporting trips for over six million children and young people in 2024/25. For more information, visit www.evolveadvice.co.uk.