Peace of Mind for You,
Safety for Them
WALKODILE® is a revolutionary new development in the field of outdoor education management & child safety.
Its inventor is Elaine Stephen, a teacher from Scotland. She recognised the difficulties experienced in taking groups of young children on walks outdoors and wanted something to help her better manage the walk and create a safer, more enjoyable outing.
There was nothing available on the market, so in 2002, along with her husband John, Elaine set up Red Island Ltd to develop WALKODILE® and bring it to the market.
It took five long years, but she had to make sure her product was "best in class". She had to learn many new discplines as WALKODILE® made its steady progress to market. This included research, design, protoyping, rigorous trials and finally maunfacture.
In late 2006, Elaine's dream became a reality and WALKODILE® rolled off the producton line and was launched in the marketplace.
Since then, the product has won a host of prestigious awards and received a fantastic reaction from the Education and Childcare Industry. See what they say about WALKODILE® here.
We leave the last words on story so far to Elaine...
"It's not easy taking a large group of young children out on a walk outside school or nursery... ask any childcare professional. Young children are very unpredictable and no matter how careful I am and how much adult supervision I have with me, there's always the chance an accident could happen. I wanted to create something which would make the children safer and make my task more manageable.
"WALKODILE® has received extremely positive feedback from children, parents and childcare staff. It has also received widespread acclaim from many other communities and interested stakeholders. I know it will give me, my colleagues and all other education professionals significant improvements in outdoor education for us & the children under our care"
Elaine is now continuing her journey with this amazing product as she aims to bring WALKODILE's advantages to as many children and education professionals as possible, in the UK and beyond.
