Welcome to the Free Play Network
The Free Play Network is a network of individuals and organisations, which
aims to promote the need for better play opportunities for children.
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Penny Wilson’s exhibition of play memories from the people of Tower Hamlets is a moving and beautifully written insight into children’s play.
Gathered and illustrated as part of the PATH (Play Association Tower Hamlets) Play Times project, it is on display at Mile End Art Pavilion, Grove Road, E3 4QY from 12 – 31 January 2010.
Not to be missed!
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www.flickr.com/photos/playtowerhamlets/4001537099/
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www.barnaslandskap.blogspot.com |
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Design for Play: a guide to creating successful play spaces by Aileen Shackell, Nicola Butler, Phil Doyle and David Ball, published by Play England, has won a 'Highly Commended' in the 2009 Landscape Institute Awards.
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An online presentation based on the Play England guide, Design for Play: a guide to creating successful
play spaces is available on the Free
Play Network website or as a pdf file on the Play
England website.
Design for Play includes 10 design principles
for a fresh, design-led approach to commissioning and designing play spaces and more child-friendly public space. |
www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/designforplay
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PLAYLINK
and the Free Play Network have launched a new addition to
their free, online photo exhibition, PLACES for PLAY. Places
of Woe: Places of Possibility shows just how bad play
provision can be - and how good.
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/
exhibition/woepossibility
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Too often poor design robs children of vital opportunities
to learn and be healthy and wastes public money. PLACES for
PLAY is intended to inspire a more imaginative approach to
the creation of play spaces and public space, one founded
on understanding the needs and wishes of children.
More information about
PLACES for PLAY >>
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You can help support better play opportunities for children by
joining the Free Play Network.
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