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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

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

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