Bradford is set for an adrenaline-packed Bank Holiday Weekend as the Super Soapbox Challenge returns. dlvr.it/T6K0Sk 🔗 Link below

📣 You can apply for the Play Enabling Grant 2024-2025, tomorrow! Third Sector Leeds PlaySufficiencyLeeds
For our final update before we open up applications, we want to let you know about the second change to the eligibility criteria for the grant this year:

Be interesting to see in areas of typically low voter turn out, and lower car ownership / holidaying abroad people if there is any difference this year.

Remarkable news.sky.com/story/politics…

The S*n have run some despicable headlines and bylines in their day. Their content has never been respectable, credible or honest - but 'Sword Lad' shows they have not changed and never will. Disgusting. Never buy it. Ever.

How amazing is this play area?! 👌❤️
Did you know Clonkeen Park is a stone’s throw from the National Rehabilitation Hospital?

Our new play area should be somewhere the families&children of all ages and abilities can have a break, connect and play together in our community

🚨 Did you miss our full #LIFI24 announcement this morning??

Here is a very handy recap thread.... ☕️ 

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I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the convoluted history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online #playgroundhistories

Today's policy from the Ministry of Imagination Manifesto comes from Ruth Sapsed of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination, protected play time for all kids. Download the full Manifesto for free at robhopkins.net/2024/04/15/min… #WhatIf .

Hannah!

I'm loving Andy Robertson's work on digital play advocacy:
'Digital play is play. If we only see harms and dangers we miss the reality that children flock to video games mostly because of how well-fitted these experiences are to the desires and deficits of their childhood.'

🧵1/4 We are SO excited to release our How To Guide on cocreating neighbourhood plans with children and teenagers.

This is the culmination of 5 years of trialling and testing our methodology, honed by the Children and Teenagers Neighbourhood Project.

aplaceinchildhood.org/wp-content/upl…

Bubbles at Kirkstall Forge
(Gorgeous sunny day)
Playwork team Child Friendly Leeds PlaySufficiencyLeeds

Today I’m informally changing my title from CEO to Custodian of Tyneside Cinema . This is a labour of love ❤️ and I’m here to protect it for future generations.

Yum! Happy bubble Sun Day

Play is an outcome.
Think of that when using language about change in places.
(Policy language / LTNS / active travel, 15 minute neighbourhoods etc)

This is great. Why didn’t we frame HS2 this way?

Important survey results here from ⁦Higher Education Policy Institute⁩ showing that a third of students are at risk of dropping out because of worsening finances. Social mobility is impossible unless financial support is increased and increased quickly hepi.ac.uk/2024/05/02/new…

Great article by Alexandra Lange on why swings are important, featuring some excellent new parks in the US. Just look at these swings - one huge, and one under a shelter so big that it also holds a basketball court.
Can we have some of that here please?
bloomberg.com/features/2024-…