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Unveiling the Play Pedagogy Award Pilot: Embracing Play Across Scotland

27 May 2024

Exciting news ahead for Play Pedagogy in Scotland! We’re thrilled to announce the…

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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

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

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