A MESSY outdoors playgroup is looking for a grassy field in South Essex to call home.

Natural Foundations, which claims to be the only year-round outdoors playgroup in Essex, are being evicted from their current field at Sandford Mill in Chelmsford.

The city’s council has told them they have to leave by the end of this month.

Director of the group, Emma Syndercombe, 48, has been scouting around for green spaces in Basildon in the hopes of finding a new base.

Natural Foundations is a social enterprise that provides the opportunity for under-fives to get messy in sand, mud and water.

It also allows children to play using old-fashioned wooden toys and equipment.

The group has struggled to find a suitable green space.