Is Playful Communities for me?

Playful Communities is perfect for anyone who wants to get involved in creating, improving and maintaining places where children and young people can play and spend their free time.

This could mean working to provide supervised holiday playschemes, play rangers or staffed adventure playgrounds.

Or it could cover developing local play areas, campaigning for improvements to local play spaces, forming ‘parks watch’ or friends of parks groups.

If these sound familiar to you, then the website is likely to help you make best use of the time and effort you put into your play project.

Specifically, Playful Communities provides practical advice and information on resources for:

• Individuals and community groups interested in developing, improving or simply helping out with play opportunities for children where they live.
• Voluntary and community sector organisations involved in supporting community groups and volunteers in developing and delivering play provision.
• Voluntary and community sector organisations directly involved in the provision of either staffed or un-staffed play opportunities.
• Local authorities, their strategic partners and other local agencies with responsibilities for the local area's play provision, including the active involvement of children, young people and local communities.