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2 July 2024

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15 May 2024

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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

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

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