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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

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

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