London Play AGM

London Adventure Play Awards 2024

Date: Thursday 05 December, 2024
Time: 10am – 1pm
Place: Homerton Adventure Playground, Wardle Street E9 6BX
RSVP to info@londonplay.org.uk by Tuesday 03 December

There’s a feeling in the air and it’s not just the chill of winter or the approach of holiday season. It’s the proponents of play – professional, volunteer, parent, carer, child – rumbling into action, reaching their limits as they see kids suffer the mounting impacts of the ongoing failure of decision makers to prioritise their wellbeing.

London’s children took to the city’s central streets earlier this year to demand the government funds play. As Leicester adventure playgrounds come under threat, the long buried national play strategy was discussed in Parliament. The Commission on Play is collecting evidence from across the country. Challenging times in Islington have brought play workers and politicians together to address the crisis.

It is in this context we invite anyone and everyone who cares about play to join us at London Play’s AGM. Find out about London Play’s year and our hopes for 2025. Hear from Homerton AP manager and news from Islington where a play movement is brewing. Please RSVP so we know how many lunches to cater for!

Play news
PLAY workers have warned that community cohesion and the mental health of young people are at stake after they were told to take a pay cut or lose their jobs
London Play Press Releases
Hundreds of children from across the capital converged in joyful noisy chaos on Parliament Square in Westminster yesterday to mark the first ever International Day of Play.

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The London Adventure Play Awards recognise and celebrate great adventurous play – wherever it happens.

Award entries are in the form of short (2 mins max!) films made by children. As always, recognising and celebrating the special role of adventure playgrounds in children’s lives is the driving force behind this annual event. But we also welcome entries from other open access London play settings and of course, Play Streets!

We also have a brand new category for 2024 to recognise the unsung, unpaid heroes of play across the capital:

  • London Adventure Playground of the Year
  • Weird and Wonderful Award
  • Dream Team Award
  • Best Flick
  • Play Street of the Year
  • **NEW** People for Play Award **NEW**

Download an entry form below and get filming!

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2024

FREE AWARDS EVENT FOR ALL SHORTLISTED ENTRIES: THURS 31 OCTOBER (HALF TERM) 2024 (tbc)

2024 APAwards application form
Play news
Children who spend more time engaged in adventurous play involving an element of risk have fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to research that found the effect was more pronounced among children from lower income families.
London Play Press Releases
A Hackney adventure playground has ‘outplayed’ others from across the capital to win the title of London Adventure Playground of the Year 2023. Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground was one of 16 shortlisted in the London Adventure Play Awards last week to join the hotly-anticipated annual event run by the charity London Play.

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