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Author: Mollie Nijam

Castlefield Primary achieves Outdoor Play and Learning Award

30 June 2026

East Kilbride, Scotland – Castlefield School will be formally presented with the Outdoor…

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Join us to celebrate Playday!

30 June 2026

Wednesday 5th August is Playday, the national day for play! We’re teaming up…

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Listening properly to children about play: reflections on the new ‘Talking Mats’ resource

26 May 2026

What happens when we genuinely listen to children about their play, not just…

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Annual General Meeting & Strategy Launch

14 April 2026

We are delighted to invite you to Annual General Meeting and Strategy Launch party!…

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Play in Healthcare

30 March 2026

As our wonderful colleague Alex prepares to run the London Marathon for Starlight…

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Where do the Children Play?

24 March 2026

“As a child, connection to the outdoors and being able to run around…

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Why Play belongs in Trauma Informed Practice

9 February 2026

  Erin is a play therapist and lecturer based in Scotland with a…

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Scotland’s Play Charter

Scotland’s Play Charter describes our collective commitment to play for all children and young people. Supporters of the Charter know that children have the right to play and value play as an essential part of children’s health and wellbeing as individuals and part of the community.

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Pledges to Scotland’s Play Charter

  • Newmains Family Learning Centre
  • Cockburnspath Primary School
  • The Cottage Family Centre
  • South Lanarkshire College
  • Support from the Start Prestonpans Cluster
  • Beech House Nursery
  • Parkour UK
  • Scottish Government
  • Make Mess Matter
  • Parenting Across Scotland
  • Barnardo’s APNA Project
  • Bruce Family Centre
  • Leaps and Bounds Activities (LBA)
  • Ninewells Nursery
  • St Boswells Primary School
  • Quarriers
  • Goodlyburn Primary School
  • Prestonpans ASC
  • Babysign
  • Gap Childcare Services
  • Smallworld Out of School Club
  • EA Junior School
  • Black Lion Games
  • Mud Pie
  • PLUS Forth Valley Ltd
  • Edinburgh College
  • Gullane After School Club
  • Our Place Our Families
  • Argyll & Bute Council
  • Healthy n Happy CDT
  • Little Steps Childminding
  • First 4 Kids
  • North Queensferry Primary
  • Warout Primary School
  • Park Primary School
  • St Denis’ Primary School
  • Orchard Grove Kindergarten
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Stepping Stones North
  • RHC NHS GGC
  • Ark Out of School Care
  • Forestry and Land Scotland
  • Play Torbay
  • West College Scotland
  • Adoption UK
  • Gargurnnock Play Group
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • Glenbervie Kindergarden
  • Healthy Valleys
  • Greener Kirkcaldy
  • Òganan Ghlaschu
  • Little Acorns
  • Commercial Primary School
  • Together – Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights
  • Laura’s Little Treasures
  • Heathfield Primary & Early Years Centre
  • Wallyford Primary School
  • Shetland College UHI
  • Clovenstone Primary School
  • East Lothian Out of School Care Network
  • Abbey Early Years Centre
  • Playland
  • Hyndland After School Club
  • Iona Primary Early Years
  • Argyll College
  • Tarves Primary School
  • Tweedbank Early Learners
  • Perth Autism Support
  • Bonding with Baby
  • Towerbank ASC
  • Play Midlothian
  • OSCARS Childcare
  • Biggar Primary School and Nursery
  • Starcatchers
  • Child’s Play
  • Langlee Support Centre, Langlee Primary School
  • Fife Childcare Services
  • Roots and Shoots Highland Learning
  • Fields in Trust Scotland
  • Bikeability
  • PEEK Project
  • Ayrshire College
  • Families First, North Lanarkshire Council
  • Loader Monteith
  • Craigour Park Primary School and Nursery
  • Canongate Youth
  • St Columba’s Junior School
  • Johnshaven School
  • Linnvale Primary
  • Houston Primary School
  • University of Dundee
  • Support for Families
  • MACS After School Care
  • 3D Drumchapel
  • Red Harbour Events
  • St Leonard’s Primary and Nursery School
  • Gracemount Nursery
  • Falkirk Community Trust Libraries
  • Bright Starts Nursery
  • Project 31
  • What’s on Inverbervie Community
  • Support from the Start North Berwick Cluster
  • Licketyspit
  • Home-Start Levenmouth
  • YouthLink Scotland
  • Guildford Borough Council Playrangers
  • Murrayburn Primary School
  • Perth & Kinross Council
  • Little Lunches
  • Dundee and Angus College
  • Barlanark Out of School Care
  • City of Edinburgh Council
  • The Destiny Project
  • Clydesdale After School Care
  • Castleton Primary School
  • Little Forest Friends Scotland
  • Kidsize Out of School Club
  • St George’s School for Girls
  • Corstorphine Primary School
  • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
  • The Wee Childcare Company Ltd
  • Kids Come First
  • St Margaret’s Primary School
  • Living Streets Scotland
  • Elphinstone Primary
  • Fife College
  • Sciennes Primary School
  • Liberton After School Club
  • Interactive Play Scotland
  • Access Parkour Ltd
  • Tweeddale Youth Action
  • Kilbarchan AAC
  • South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
  • MyParkScotland
  • Giffnock Nursery Class
  • Springfield Primary School
  • Glasgow Life
  • Support from the Start Tranent Cluster
  • Wardie Primary School
  • Home-Start Lorn
  • Support from the Start Musselburgh Cluster
  • Enchanted Forest Nursery
  • Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland
  • Rattray Primary School
  • Scalloway Pre-School
  • Child Central Training
  • Hillwood Primary School
  • Bankhead After School Care Service
  • Islesburgh OOSC
  • Culture NL
  • Echline Primary School and Nursery Class
  • St Sylvester’s Primary School
  • Burnbrae Primary School
  • Cambusbarron Village Nursery
  • East End Empowering Stars
  • Oxgangs Primary School
  • Cornerstone Nursery
  • Holmston Out of Skool Club
  • Twinkle Stars Childcare
  • NHS Health Scotland
  • Scout Association
  • Pirie Park Primary School
  • PlayBase
  • TICTACS After School Service
  • City of Play
  • Early Steps Nursery
  • St Ninians Nursery
  • St Peter’s RC Primary School
  • PlayBoard NI
  • Edzell Nursery
  • Tinies
  • High School of Dundee
  • Off Grid Kids
  • Enterprise Childcare
  • Riverside Primary School
  • Jordanhill Out of School Service
  • Aberdeenshire Council
  • Professional Learning Academy
  • Timberplay Scotland Ltd
  • Doune Nursery
  • Simply Play
  • Enable Scotland
  • Dunbar Primary School Nursery
  • Jordanhill School
  • Leisure and Culture
  • Gowrie Training and Consultancy
  • Outlet Play Resource
  • Hanover Street School
  • Reidvale Adventure Play Association Limited
  • Outdoor Woodland Learning School (OWLS)
  • East Pollockshields Out of School Care
  • West Lothian Council
  • St Ninian’s Primary School
  • Summerston Childcare
  • Play Alloa
  • Home-Start East Fife
  • North Ayrshire Council
  • Eyemouth Primary School
  • Boomerang Community Centre
  • Angus Alive
  • Musselburgh Burgh Primary School
  • Flowerpots Childcare
  • Falkirk Council
  • Battlefield Primary ASC Association (BPASCA)
  • Caldercuilt Primary School & Nursery
  • CALL Scotland
  • Tingwall Primary School
  • East of the Sun, West of the Moon
  • Dalmilling Primary School
  • Step by Step Nursery
  • Whiteinch Centre
  • Cairnsmoir Connections
  • Early Education UK
  • Parent Action for Safe Play
  • C.O.J.A.C. Caring Operations Joint Action Council
  • Voluntary Action
  • Fife Play Resource, Fife Play Development Team, Fife Council
  • Arran High School
  • Lanarkshire Childcare Services
  • Chanonry Beaver Scouts
  • Stirling ELC
  • Include Me 2 Club
  • St Andrew’s RC Primary School
  • Support from the Start Haddington Cluster
  • Thornlie Primary School
  • Dirleton Playgroup
  • Fun Lodge After School Care
  • Edible Estates
  • Borestone Primary School
  • Gleniffer Nursery
  • Maxwellton Park Nursery & OSC
  • Task Childcare Services
  • Siblings Together and Reunited (STAR)
  • Stirling Play Services, Stirling Council
  • Dens Road Primary School
  • Aberlour Childcare Trust
  • Carli’s Kindergarten
  • Little Scallywags Nursery
  • Child’s Play Nursery
  • NHS West Dunbartonshire
  • Movement Park
  • Muirhouse Youth Development Group
  • Barnardo’s Scotland
  • The BIG Project
  • North United Communities
  • St Paul’s Primary School
  • Castlepark Primary School
  • Cumbernauld YMCA
  • Kinneil Primary School and Early Years Campus
  • Angus Council
  • University of Strathclyde
  • South Morningside Primary School and Nursery
  • Muck Primary School
  • Youth Scotland
  • Highland Council
  • Wellgreen Nursery, Stirling
  • Holy Corner Community Playgroup
  • Play Together on Pedals
  • St Joseph’s Primary School
  • Parsons Green Primary
  • Holy Cross Primary School
  • Outdoor Cleghorn
  • NG Homes
  • Maddiston Primary School
  • Maggie’s Childminding Service
  • Leaps and Bounds Nursery
  • Crieff Hydro
  • East Ayrshire Council
  • With Kids
  • The Concrete Garden
  • Broomhill OOSC
  • Chatelherault Nursery & ASC
  • Wee Gems
  • Operation Play Outdoors
  • Four Seasons Nursery
  • Dumfries Toy Library
  • Lamlash Early Years Class
  • Crieff Hydro Kids Club
  • Galleon Centre
  • ASH Scotland
  • North Edinburgh Childcare
  • Evanton Wood Community Company
  • South Lanarkshire Council
  • Fledglings Childminding Service
  • TIGERS
  • NHS Forth Valley
  • WHALE Arts
  • Fenton Barns Nursery
  • ACE Place Nursery and OSC
  • Clermiston Primary School and Nursery
  • West Johnstone Early Learning and Childcare Centre
  • The Nurture Nursery
  • Bridge of Weir Childcare
  • Balmore Kindergarten Ltd
  • The Yard
  • KO-NEKT (Childcare)
  • Children’s Health Scotland
  • Home-Start Kincardine
  • St David’s Primary School
  • Firsthand Lothian
  • St Peter’s Primary School
  • City of Glasgow College
  • Woodland Outdoor Kindergartens
  • Newton Nursery
  • Cookfur Nursery Class
  • First Nursery
  • Rosetta Early Learners
  • Forgandenny Primary School
  • Craigton Primary School
  • Gylemuir After School Club
  • Borders College
  • Craiglockhart After School Club
  • Holy Corner Community Group
  • Impact Arts
  • Antonine Primary School
  • Pentlands Activity Camps (PAC)
  • Scalloway Youth & Community Centre
  • Balornock Primary School
  • Hayburn Park Association
  • St Gerard’s Nursery School
  • Shetland Islands Council
  • Lecropt Nursery and Bridge of Allan OOSC
  • Midlothian Sure Start
  • Nurture the Play
  • The Green Team
  • Law Primary School and North Berwick Nursery School
  • Alyth OOSC
  • Education Department East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Monkey Puzzle Glasgow Central
  • East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Holy Cross Nursery Class
  • Fountainhall Nursery
  • Windygoul Primary School
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • Family Fund Scotland
  • Getting Better Together
  • Whiteness Primary School
  • Home-Start Edinburgh West and South West
  • Arkleston Primary School
  • Meadowburn Primary School
  • Stramash
  • Sgoil Bhaile a’ Mhanaich, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
  • Flowerbank Early Childhood Centre
  • Scamps SOSC
  • Emerald Maintenance
  • Croftamie Nursery
  • Fife Gingerbread
  • East Park
  • Tiptoe’s Children’s Nursery
  • Erskine Stewart Melville School
  • Inclusive Play
  • Linthaugh Nursery School
  • Upstart Scotland
  • Support from the Start Dunbar Cluster
  • University of the West of Scotland
  • Grange Primary School
  • South Ayrshire Council
  • Scottish Historic Buildings Trust
  • NHS GGC Children and Families
  • Mini Me Yoga Ambassador
  • Camperdown Primary School and Nursery
  • Knightswood Primary
  • Allan’s Nursery
  • Almond Park Nursery
  • Toybox Children’s Centre
  • Tinto Nursery
  • The Scottish Parliament
  • Auchinairn Afterschool Care & Forest School
  • St John’s RC Primary
  • Aberdeen City Council
  • Burnfoot Community School
  • Clackmannanshire Council
  • Busy Bees Nursery
  • Lauriston Nursery
  • Edinburgh and Lothians Out of School Care Network
  • Scaraway Nursery School
  • Green Aspirations Scotland CIC
  • St Thomas Playgroup
  • Woodlands Family Nurture Centre
  • Middleton Park School
  • Cardonald Primary School
  • Abbey Mill Childcare
  • Hearts and Minds
  • Bòrd na Gàidhlig
  • Milltimber Playgroup
  • LINKES
  • The Creativity Portal
  • West Dunbartonshire Council
  • Glebelands Nursery
  • Earthtime for All Ltd
  • Crossmichael Primary School
  • Home-Start Wigtownshire
  • Jennyswell Out of School Care
  • Mini French
  • Mosstodloch Primary School
  • Beatlie Primary School
  • North Edinburgh Arts
  • Stanmore House School – Capability Scotland
  • Busy Bairns Childminder
  • Aberlady ELOSCN
  • Allsorts Dornoch
  • Childcare Strategy Team
  • Meiklewood Nursery and After School Care
  • St David’s Primary RC
  • Orkney Library and Archive
  • Scottish Book Trust
  • New College Lanarkshire
  • St Charles’ Primary School
  • Argyle Bridge Children’s Nursery
  • SPELL
  • Play and Sports Limited
  • Coastguard Club
  • Seamab
  • James Gillespie’s Nursery
  • East Lothian Play Association
  • Pencaitland Primary School Parent Council
  • Childcare in the Community
  • Queens Cross Housing Association
  • CHAS
  • Buttons & Bows Nursery School
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Kidzcare
  • Culture & Leisure
  • Eastmuir Primary School
  • Cosy Cottage Nursery School
  • Sgoil-àraich Taobh na Pàirce
  • Whinhill Primary School
  • Mid Calder Primary School
  • Busby Primary School
  • Fusion Childcare Services
  • Aberfoyle Nursery
  • Melrose Primary School
  • Scottish Out of School Care Network
  • Inverbrothock OOSC
  • Innerwick Primary and Nursery School
  • Simpson Primary School & Nursery Class
  • Renfrewshire Council
  • Sacred Heart Primary School
  • St Martin’s Primary School and Nursery
  • Support, Help and Integration in Perthshire
  • St Rose of Lima Primary School
  • Udston Primary School
  • Adelaides Nursery
  • Rosemount Lifelong Learning
  • Preschool Academy
  • International Play Association Scotland
  • Gingerbread
  • Oxley Park Academy
  • Pilton Youth and Children’s Project
  • Welly Walkers Childminding
  • Whitburn and District Community Development Trust
  • Play Borders
  • Creative STAR
  • Seahorse Nursery
  • St Mary’s Nursery Class
  • Edinburgh Young Carers Project
  • Smart Play Network
  • Forest School Leader
  • Firpark Primary School
  • Inspiring Scotland
  • Newtongrange ASC
  • Oxfordshire Play Association
  • Penicuik YMCA-YWCA
  • Newtown Primary School
  • Dunblane Youth & Sports Centre Trust

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