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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

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

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