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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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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

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

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