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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

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