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Join us at Future North 2027

17 August 2026

Play Scotland is pleased to be part of Future North 2027, a two-day event led by Alice…

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Where do the Children Play?

24 March 2026

“As a child, connection to the outdoors and being able to run around…

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UK Play Safety Forum: Benefit-risk and the new ISO (Free online webinar)

23 January 2024

UK Play Safety Forum webinar on benefit-risk and the new ISO Book Tickets…

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The Humble Cardboard Box, By Alex Wallis

21 November 2023

  December: the month of the year when homes and businesses across the…

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Upcoming: AGM & 25 Years of Play Scotland

13 November 2023

Join us for Play Scotland’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations and AGM where we will…

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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

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

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