An Evaluation of Venture Trust’s ‘Next Steps’ Programme

Abstract

This report aims to evaluate the impact of Venture Trust’s (VT) ‘Next Steps’ programme on programme participants. The following section will review the literature around ‘outdoor education’ (OE) programmes that address clientele who have been involved in the criminal justice system. Although there are varying definitions in the literature for OE, most simply, it refers to organized learning that takes place in the outdoors. This term is more commonly used as a general phrase in recent literature and so will be used throughout this report as an umbrella term for learning outdoors.