We're so excited to be preparing for a brand new volunteering project! Our project will open new opportunities for young people locally - we'll have a range of opportunities from prep to playwork, prop-making to decision-making...
More announcements to come as our project goes live.⚡️
Our Pop Up Play events receive amazing feedback from parents and children. Don't miss out on our last event of the summer!
Pop Up Adventure Play
Friday 8th and Saturday 9th August 11am - 3pm
Neilson Park, Haddington
Free, fun and friendly!
We're very happy to sign up to this important campaign and really look forward to the calls for action becoming reality! Link below to sign up to show your support.
We're looking forward to celebrating national Playday in Whitecraig park this Wednesday! How will you play on Playday?
Calling all families, carers, and professionals working with children!
Scot Gov is inviting feedback on local play parks. They want to understand what’s working in our communities—and where improvements to be made.
The survey takes about 7 minutes to complete: forms.office.com/e/WkPx8TnJwW
Get out to play in Prestonpans! Our Pop Up Play sessions use natural and recycled materials that children can play with their way for hours of creative, active, screen free fun!☺
🌿Join us in Cuthill Park, Prestonpans
🪵Friday 25th July 11am-2pm
🐚Nature art, dens, games
🌻Free, fun and friendly!
🌻Choose Play (East Lothian Play Association)
🏵️Pop Up Play summer 2025
🌻Free, fun, friendly play sessions! Outdoor, imaginative play for screen free fun!
🪵Choose Play sessions focus on outdoor play using natural and recycled materials for creative and imaginative fun.
Everyone welcome!
At Choose Play sessions, children lead the play. While all sessions are different, here are some things to expect and some information that's good to know when you come along.
Look out for our summer programme, coming soon!
🌿Spark the Park, Tranent
Tuesdays 1st July to 8th August and Saturdays in July 1-3pm.
🎋Free, fun and friendly
Children lead the play with a bit of spark provided by the Play Rangers.
🪻Find us
At the green space between the George Johnstone Centre and Lindores Drive, Tranent EH33 1AA.
👣One week to go!👣
We'll be celebrating International Mud Day on 27th June in Neilson Park, Haddington ☺
Help us get ready by getting arty in the park- Our Play Rangers will be in Neilson Park tomorrow (Friday 19th) 12.30 - 1.30pm with collage, painting and drawing materials.
👣 Free, fun, friendly
Choose Play is so grateful to the Dickon Fund for supporting our outdoor community play sessions. These will take place in the local green space we love so much in Tranent.
Without such support we couldn't offer our mix of free, fun, friendly play sessions across East Lothian throughout the year.
International Day of Play is here! We are so excited to celebrate with Pencaitland Primary School - renamed PLAYcaitland by the children! We loved all the plans the children put together for a full day of play celebrating #IDOP2025
Enjoy your day of play and remember, choose play - every day!
🌳Spark the Park Tranent summer taster session!
🌳Friday 13th June 12.30 - 2.30pm
🌳Find the Play Rangers at the green space near the George Johnston Centre, Tranent.
🌳Free, fun and friendly.
Meet the Play Rangers, play games, relax in a hammock & help design our summer programme.
Everyone welcome😀
New: Making Space to Play
Our new page shares our ideas & work on engaging with children and communities to make space for play. Healthy, nurturing places to play are vital to children’s health, development & happiness. Read on
#ListenToChildren #PlaySufficiency
elpa.org.uk/make-space-t...
Interested? Get in touch if you:
- can host us on International Day of Play - 11th June
- have a suitable space e.g. a gym hall, large multipurpose room
- are happy for images to be shared on social media to promote International Day of Play
- can provide a key point of contact.
info@elpa.org.uk
Giveaway! To celebrate #InternationaldayofPlay Choose Play is offering one East Lothian school the opportunity for a day of Unboxed cardboard fun! We will provide Play Rangers, cardboard & tools. Get in touch with: info@elpa.org.uk by end of the day of 27th May 2025, to nominate your school.
We're excited to see that the Children and Young people's Commissioner is celebrating #InternationalDayofPlay Scotland takes play seriously!
We're all looking forward to the sunny, play-filled days of the holidays! And summer just got sunnier, thanks to a grant from the Ponton Trust which is supporting our summer play programme. In the holidays our Play Rangers provide creative & adventurous outdoor play - always free, fun, friendly!
The image is an announcement for the "Bright Start Breakfasts Fund." It includes the following text: "New Fund Alert! Schools, charities, and community groups in Scotland can apply. The Fund aims to increase access to breakfast clubs across Scotland for primary school children and their families. Open for applications: Wednesday 14th May." There are logos at the bottom for the Scottish Government and Inspiring Scotland. On the right side, there is a graphic of a sun with rays, a bowl of cereal, and an apple with the text "Bright Start Breakfasts Fund" inside the sun.
🚨 New Fund Alert!
The Bright Start Breakfasts Fund is now open for applications.
Apply now to create new breakfast clubs and expand existing provision 👉inspiringscotland.org.uk/fund/bright-start-breakf...
#BrightStartBreakfasts
White text on a green background calls for participants to work with Children in Scotland to develop a series of animations to help adults working with children and young people to better understand their experiences of different issues to do with mental health and wellbeing. The experiences shared will be anonymised and developed into a new resource for adults and professionals. Contact information is given as an email for David Yule of Children in Scotland - dyule@childreninscotland.org.uk
Our colleagues @childreninscotland.bsky.social are looking to work with young people and their parents/carers on an exciting new project focused on #mentalhealth.
Find out more and how to get involved: childreninscotland.org.uk/understandin...
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
📣Job alert!
📣Holiday Project Lead (Temporary)
📣Apply by midnight 27th April 2025
We are looking for a playful, enthusiastic person who enjoys working with children and being part of a small, friendly team to support our busy summer programme.
Details here:
elpa.org.uk/job-alert/
We're excited to share our story of engagement with children and the influence they have had on the development of local play spaces. Our aim is that disabled children shouldn't just have one space to play, but should have choices of places and opportunities across the county. #PlaySufficiency
We're presenting a workshop at Children in Scotland’s Annual Conference, taking place 28-29 May in Glasgow! Find out more and book your tickets now: childreninscotland.org.uk/conferences/...
#SpaceforVoices
Unboxed Tips are coming soon... but why wait? Go big or small with cardboard creations… you can make miniature environments in a shoebox or high towers & fancy forts.
- Save boxes from recycling.
- Look for different shapes and sizes
- Ask local businesses and supermarkets.
#playcreaterecycle
Look out for Unboxed Top Tips coming soon!
Cardboard offers endless creative fun using basic materials and tools. You can collect cardboard for free so you don’t need to worry about using it up or making a mistake.
Thanks for support - Haddington & Lammermuir Area Partnership!
#playcreaterecycle