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30/10/23
London play news
Play hard work hard - it's win win for SWAPA
A Hackney adventure playground has ‘outplayed’ others from across the capital to win the title of London Adventure Playground of the Year 2023. Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground was one of 16 shortlisted in the London Adventure Play Awards last week.
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28/10/22
London Play Press Releases
Islington top for adventure play second year running
Islington’s Waterside Adventure Playground (above) was named London’s Adventure Playground of the Year 2022 and Lewisham’s Ashwater Road took the gong for Play Street of the Year at a noisy celebration in London’s West End yesterday. Adventure playgrounds in Richmond, Lambeth, Haringey and Hackney also won awards.
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28/10/21
London Play Press Releases
Islington dragon's lair is London's best place to play
Islington’s Barnard Adventure Playground has been named London’s Adventure Playground of the Year today as the hotly anticipated annual event returned to the West End with a squeal and a roar (and a few rude squelchy sounds too)!
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14/04/21
Health
Children bear brunt of mental health crisis
The number of children seeking help for mental health problems increased by 28% during the pandemic, new figures have revealed.
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10/04/21
Community
KIDS GET MUDDY IN SOUTH LONDON OASIS
Hundreds of children will have the chance to learn about the natural world– and get muddy – at an urban ‘oasis’ in south London.
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16/02/21
London play news
London Play calls for a 'summer of play'
London Play has joined academics and other play campaigners in calling on the government to support 'a summer of play' to help children recover from the stress of lockdown and a year of Covid upheaval.
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30/10/20
London play news
Triple the adventure: award winners
Three London adventure playgrounds that went to extraordinary lengths to keep children playing – and in some cases, fed too – during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic were yesterday announced as joint winners of the coveted London Adventure Playground of the Year Award.
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16/10/20
Community
IT'S ADVENTURE PLAY - BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
Two thirds of London's adventure playground organisations report that they are now delivering new services, with many becoming vital hubs for food distribution.
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20/09/20
London play news
MAYOR BACKS ADVENTURE PLAY ZURICH DOESN'T
LONDON: Leading insurer Zurich has promised to review its decision to withdraw insurance cover from two of the capital's adventure playgrounds.
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28/08/20
London Play Press Releases
Abby Aliens triumph, together a-kart
Inviting groups of children from across London to converge in a field, rub shoulders designing and building go karts from scratch, and then race them side by side was a BIG no-no this year. But London Play found a way to make the hotly-anticipated go kart events happen
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13/07/20
Community
Havens of play for London's children
London Play has won nearly £100k in funding to support adventure playgrounds and ensure the capital’s most vulnerable children can enjoy a summer of play.
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07/07/20
London play news
Camp Build on Tour
With residential camps on hold for now, Camp Build has gone on tour to bring the unique building adventure to playgrounds across the capital.
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29/06/20
London Play Press Releases
Parcels of joy for lockdown kids
Thousands of families visiting adventure playground foodbanks across the capital this week will be picking up parcels of joy along with their food staples thanks to the capital’s leading play charity.
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07/04/20
Play Research & Reports
Adventure playgrounds rise to the challenge
Adventure playgrounds may have closed their gates, but they have not closed the door on their ‘playing customers’, London’s children.
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04/10/19
London play news
ELHAP 'well 'appy' with top award
The most happening adventure playground in London is ELHAP in Redbridge, it was announced today
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08/07/19
London play news
Big Kid to take on Dexter playground
LAMBETH: BIG KID Foundation is poised to sign a 10-year lease on Dexter Adventure Playground in Brixton.
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02/02/19
Play Research & Reports
GREEN FUND TO CUT PLAYGROUND POLLUTION
LONDON: Around £400,000 has been awarded to 29 London primary schools to fund new green barriers to protect children from toxic air in school playgrounds.
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10/08/18
London play news
London kids show go kart grit
Continuous rain failed to put a damper on yesterday’s All London Go Kart Build and Race as children from across London proved that they are anything but a ‘cotton wool generation’.
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