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Welcome to Stramash Social Enterprise Scotland.

We connect children and young people with Nature and the Outdoors.

You can read more about our vision, mission and values here

Freedom to learn, inspired by nature

Outdoor Nursery – Our incredible (and growing!) exceptional quality Outdoor Nursery provision; available in Moray, Highlands, Bute and Argyll

Schools Programme – experienced and passionate outdoor educators, deliver top quality, bespoke outdoor programmes to your pupils

We value and develop our people with training and CPD for practitoners including our fantastic apprenticeship programme

Building relationships with our families & communities

Opening Hours 8:30 – 5:30 Mon-Fri

Contact: 01631 566080

Or email us using the contact form below

Freedom to learn, inspired by nature

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Outdoor Nursery

At Stramash we believe that all children deserve an early years at play, in nature. We are champions of place based and child directed learning, as such there is no ‘standard’ Stramash site. I mean it makes sense really, when the site, environment, resources, culture, team and children are all different why would any 2… Continue reading Outdoor Nursery

Schools

Stramash has the experience and the flexibility to deliver the programme you require for your pupils.  Our outdoor learning programmes provide a safe, fun and challenging environment and use experiential learning to support the personal and social development of each and every participant. The right programme for your students (and budget!) Over recent years we have… Continue reading Schools

Apprenticeships

Our Apprenticeship programme 2018 is now closed for applications – the successful candidates are all placed in our nursery settings. For more info about our Apprentice Programme, applications & process please click here: 2018 Stramash Apprenticeship Programme Stramash has been registered as a Training Provider of SVQs (Scottish Vocational Qualifications) since March 2013. We have had apprentices… Continue reading Apprenticeships

Brilliant staff, great location, out in nature and in all weather. We love the mix of freedom and learning.

Torin loves running around, getting muddy and being out in the fresh air so naturally he loves Stramash.
We feel extremely lucky to have been able to send Torin to an outdoor nursery! Torin is loving his time there and is thriving. The staff are amazing too!
I tell everyone how great stramash is and how much Torin loves it! I can’t recommend it highly enough!
Torin is really going to miss it when he starts school but he’ll be looking forward to going to the holiday program with Juno during school hols!!! I don’t know what we’d do if stramash wasn’t available! 

Lorna & Torin

One of the reasons we moved to Oban was for its outdoor nursery having lived in Glasgow when Maisy was a baby. We wanted both the girls to get a chance to spend time outdoors in all weathers and play freely the way we remember growing up.

We liked idea of preschool being in a non classroom environment. Maisy never realised she was at nursery to learn anything, which is brilliant because she learned so much this way.

Both girls enjoy/enjoyed the vastness of the site and the freedom they have/had to explore and make up games. Both love getting filthy! Making fires is always talked about (as well as marshmallows and making garlic bread ☺ )

They have both had different experiences settling in and one struggles a bit still but I believe she is happier in the outdoor setting than she would be indoors and she always seems to enjoy it by the end of the session. Being the less confident child, I see the biggest changes in her after starting at Stramash.

Lucy & Maisy