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Laura Harrison Playworker

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

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

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