Erskine
Islington
Your thoughts on play and freetime activity
The Big Lottery Fund (BLF) has provisionally allocated Islington £606,433 to spend on children and young people’s play and free time activity.
To bid for this cash Islington Council and its partners are putting together a 5 year play plan to show how play and free time for children and young people in the borough can be increased or improved. Out of this assessment a series of projects which can be funded by the Lottery money will be identified and bid for.
How you can help.
We need you to fill in the response box below and give us some ideas on what you think about children and young peoples play / free time activities in the borough, as well as what kind of play project you would like to see and what issues in our area do you think they will address?
You can be any age!
You can also help us make this strategy more interesting:
- Tell us what your best memory is, or was, of play or free time activity when you were under 18
- Let us know of favourite play memories from your mum, dad, grandma, grandad (or anyone you want!) - within reason of course!
Are there any rules?
Any play project ideas must be:
- For children and young people up to and including 18 years old
- Accessible for all children and young people, regardless of disability, race or gender
- FREE of charge
- FREELY available for children & young people to come and go as they please
- Let children & young people to choose what they want to do when they are there
We are just waiting to hear from you, it would be great if you could include your post code at the top of the blog - so we know your approximate location.
If you are a Community or Voluntary group and your play project does not fit the criteria above, you may be more interested in the BIG Lottery Playful ideas grant. To find out more visit The Big Lottery Fund.
Go on ... we need the ideas to come from you!
Posted on 10/05/07 by Erskine |
Responses
Postcode: (N4 3DU) Cornwallis Play & Youth Project.
I really enjoy play at my centre. I wish they had more money to get play equipment outside. And inside as well. I think they should spent the money on more things to play on out side like swings and zip wire and more wood to build dens our selves.
23/05 at 02:28 from jess garner
Postcode: (N19 4JD) cornwallis play & youth
I enjoy coming cornwallis because i have lots of friends and i like going on the swings.If we had the money i would spend it on new apperaters and new swings also new wood , maybe some stuff inside and out
23/05 at 02:42 from meltem ustun
Postcode: (N19 4PQ) CORNWALLIS PLAY AND YOUTH I really like coming to cornwallis because it is a place to spend my speare time with my friends and i really like to play inside and outside because the works make everything really fun and if i had the money i would spend it on new wood,and new things like pens and more games and get a load of new apparaters for every one of everyone to play on and stuff for the new football pitch for everyone to play with
23/05 at 02:48 from michaela hutchinson
Postcode: (n19 4lz) cornwallis play and youth i like coming to cornwallis because i like playing on the swings if we got the money i would spend it on brandnew apparatece
23/05 at 02:54 from melissa joseph
Postcode: (n19 4ey) cornwallis play and youth i like to come cornwallis because of the games and activites if we got the money i would get new structers and expaned them
23/05 at 02:57 from shian burton
Postcode: N5
I want to have more sessions in the Youth Club at Elizaebth House - once a week is not enough for locla youth. can you help????
24/05 at 17:26 from Nick
Postcode: N5 1DE - Every day I go home past Vauderville House, the only tower block in this part of Islington, on the corner of Rock St and St Thomas’s Rd. I see the grounds are all fenced and locked, a tarmac area which could be a playground is locked up and has a sign No Ball Games, the children have to play in the car park
24/05 at 20:03 from Alan Sutton
Postcode: WC1X 9EY
The type of play activities available in our area are varied and value for money but the issue is more about enough staff as if a member of staff is sick and 1 is on training then the centres have to close as they can not afford to keep staff on a rolling stock. I feel there should more money available for joint work within the community and more money to buy good reliable equipment that is in keeping with the times yet still means the young people are learning through play. the money would be best spent giving young people choices that include things that parents/carers and the like could not/would not afford.
25/05 at 20:08 from jeana
Islington Play Association are keen to support the following initiatives for inclusion in to the strategy:
Any project that works to maximise school playground areas for use by the local community including the opening of specific areas i.e ball games where practicable and possible.
Any proposal to improve the outside play experiences of children in the Children’s Centres where available money for improvements has often not prioritised creating imaginative and special places for the youngest children in the borough to experience quality play.
The IPA agreed to lead on the strand of the play portfolio projects that centre around ‘Play in Existing Play Spaces’ and have the following three proposals for discussion and inclusion in the play portfolio:
1: to continue the ‘active kids’ project that IPA have run for three years where in consultation with the play workers on the playgrounds we have changed layouts, adapted existing play structures or even built new structures to help children and young people get even more from our fantastic adventure playgrounds.
2: to train and support a team of play rangers – people who move around the play areas in the borough encouraging free play, enhancing children and young people’s feelings of ‘safety’ – apparently a major barrier to play in the borough. This will include inclusion workers who will share good practice around how children with special needs and/or disabilities can access and get the most of existing play spaces including those on housing estates, in parks and in schools.
3: to build on the success of adventure playgrounds to reduce isolation and exclusion of children and young people with special needs and/or disabilities especially by working with Haywards and to offer in depth support and advice to ensure that this designated playground continues and expands to offer services to even more children and families in the borough.
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11/07 at 20:48 from Anita Grant
