The number of mental illnesses in children in the UK has grown exponentially in the last decade: an increase of up to 65%.
To combat this, PGL, the UK’s leading outdoor education provider, has launched Thrive, a residential activity programme developed to provide children with offline wellbeing activities.
In fact, it has been shown that even 20 minutes in nature can positively affect a child.
Rather than taking devices away from children, PGL proposes an alternative, one which can lead children to discard their phones voluntarily.
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