Links

The movement for children’s freedom to play out is growing. Here are just some of the other organisations, projects, networks and campaigns working towards this in different ways. Enjoy!

UK

Playday UK – National day to raise awareness about the importance of play, including street play.

Play England – Useful briefings and publications on street play.

Play Wales – Working to establish resident-led street play across Wales.

London Play – Campaigning for Play Streets in the capital since 2010.

Hackney Play Association – Supporting street communities to play out across the borough, led by a local resident activator.

Sustrans – Working to make streets more liveable and enable children to walk and cycle safely.

Living Streets – Campaigning for more liveable streets and for children’s right to walk and cycle safely.

The Big Lunch – Building stronger, more connected communities through supporting street parties and other grassroots activity.

Save Childhood Movement (UK) Collaborative network bringing together individuals and organisations concerned about the erosion of childhood and the pressures on children.

20’s Plenty for Us – Grassroots campaign for slower speeds in residential streets across the UK.

The Wild Network – Campaign and network that aims to reconnect children with nature and the outdoors.

Rethinking Childhood Tim Gill is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on childhood (and one of our expert friends)

Roadwitch Creative street reclamation and re-purposing by artist resident Ted Dewan.

International

You can find links to academic and other research papers and publications on our research and articles page. Please do let us know if you know about other useful and inspiring organisations, projects and blogs for us to link to. If you want to take action to change things for children, there’s lots you can do to from tiny, on-line actions to small, real, personal actions to bigger community ones.