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A grand day out

Choose your destination with care, plan your itinerary and specify the ground rules, and your scheme's day out will be a great success, as Jackie Nunns explains trips out are tough to fund, tough to organise and prone to mishap, but at Trojans scheme, we wouldn't miss them for the world!

trips out are tough to fund, tough to organise and prone to mishap, but at Trojans scheme, we wouldn't miss them for the world!

They are a little holiday from everyday life and, with good planning, should be a grand day out for everyone.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

In 2001 the Policy Studies Institute found that parks in the most deprived areas were generally in poor condition and that 82 per cent of people in the UK did not have access to good open spaces. Less than one in five of the nation's 30,000 parks was considered by local authority managers to be in good condition.

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