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    • Stay Safe
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      • Play Types Toolkit
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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

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

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