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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

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

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