London’s children took to the streets around Parliament on the first ever International Day of Play.
They had some advice for the Mayor of London, who has promised to make London the best city in the world to grow up in.
Watch the film and feel inspired!
How we work so London can play
FIND A PLACE TO PLAY
80 Adventure Playgrounds
1850000 Children
19.5 sqm of Green Space per Person
Trust for London
We are very excited that Trust for London has agreed to fund our Communities United for Play project.
We will work alongside local campaigners, supporting them to successfully challenge threats to local play spaces or services and develop a toolbox for future campaigners in the process.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation has thrown its support behind a play–led recovery for children in London, with a £20,000 grant to London Play.
To do excellent and innovative projects, an organisation needs a strong core. With the vast majority of our funding committed to direct project delivery, we are really grateful to have some of our core costs covered by the Garfield Weston Foundation. As we emerge from the worst of the pandemic, this will help provide the stability needed to launch new exciting projects and plan strategically for the future.
Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards
The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards knows a good playing card when it sees one! The company’s charitable arm has put its gravitas behind Play 52: playing cards that ‘really play’.
The Makers of Playing Cards Charity is funding the third iteration of Play 52, a special London themed pack.
Mayor of London
The Mayor’s Young London Inspired Fund is supporting our exciting Camp Build project, giving 11-15 year olds the chance to camp out and ‘build in the wild’. Groups of young people from adventure playgrounds will acquire skills that they can use when they return to their playgrounds, to help with the upkeep and development of the site.
In 2021 our Formula Fun go kart build and race events will be part of the Mayor’s Let’s Do London campaign to bring Londoners and visitors back into the city in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
City Bridge Trust
Since 2015, City Bridge Trust has funded Play Works; an exciting joint project between London Play and London-based adventure playgrounds. Phase I saw adventure play staff across 10 London boroughs develop processes to monitor, measure and evaluate the effectiveness of what they do; and out of this came the Play Works Toolkit.
Phase II of the project sees the development of a standalone London Adventure Playgrounds website to provide a dedicated home for the toolkit and all things adventure play in London. We hope it will result in greater recognition of the huge benefits adventure playgrounds bring to the communities they are located in.
