Although our lives have been disrupted by the pandemic, our team at Focus on Nature has been busy finding new and exciting ways to encourage kids to be creative and safe while exploring and connecting with their natural world.

Online Lessons
Without the possibility of bringing our program into schools at this time, we have transitioned to an on-line format. Our Focus on Nature leaders have been creating video lessons and photography challenges for students learning from home. Over 600 teachers from Halifax to Victoria have registered for our on-line program and more are signing up each day!

Summer Camps
With the weather improving, parents have been contacting us about our popular summer camps wanting to know if we will be running them again this year.  All we can say is… “We don’t know yet.”  We are working to develop appropriate health & safety protocols for day camps, if and when they do proceed.

If you are hoping to have your child attend one of our camps in Guelph, Waterloo, Cambridge, Hamilton or Halton Region, please register them to reserve their spot on our waiting lists.  We can’t make any promises right now but we will keep you up-to-date on local developments as they unfold.

Garden Party
Our annual Garden Party fundraiser, usually held in June, has been postponed until September.  Of course, we can’t be sure that we’ll all be able to physically gather at that time.  But, in case social distancing measures prevent us from being physically together, we are working on creative plans for a ‘virtual party’ to be held on-line.

Thank you for your continued support of Focus on Nature. We are all doing our best to give children a positive outlook about their future, the beauty of the natural world and the many creative possibilities within it.
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Simon Bell
Executive Director