What we do
We run services for children and families in Islington. Find out what we’re up to at the moment.
Read moreAbout Islington Play Association
Islington Play Association has been fighting for children’s rights for well over 40 years. We work closely with parents, carers and community members to ensure that the best possible environment is created for children and young people.
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Latest
May Half Term Activities
Opening hours for our free May half term activities
Tuesday 29 May to Friday 1 June
Children aged 6 and up
Lumpy Hill Adventure Playground: 10.30am – 5.30pm everyday
Timbuktu Adventure Playground: 12 noon...
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Timbuktu Adventurers Club
Timbuktu Adventurer’s Club
New Holiday Childcare 2018 – Timbuktu Adventurer’s Club is childcare with a difference! Every day is an adventure!
Children shape their days to suit their interests, spending the day...
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Timbuktu Family Fun Day
Timbuktu Family Fun Day
For all the family! Bring children of all ages and enjoy a day of play. Join in with making fruit kababs, face painting, play dough making, seed...
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Paradise Park Children's Centre
Our beautiful centre hosts a nursery with excellent outside play facilities and a myriad of family support and health services.
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Our Spaces to Play
Crumbles Castle Adventure Playground (Temporarily Closed)
*** Crumbles Castle Adventure Playground will be closed from January 2018 until further notice. The adventure playground is currently closed as electrical work needs to be carried out in the...
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Hayward Adventure Playground
Hayward Adventure Playground has been specially designed with children at all abilities in mind, every part of the massive site is created so it is accessible and fun in many...
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Lumpy Hill Adventure Playground
Lumpy Hill Adventure Playground is a warm, welcoming space where children can run free, have water fights, help out in the vegetable garden and join in the kick about. The...
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Martin Luther King Adventure Playground (Temporarily Closed)
*** From January 2018 Martin Luther King Adventure Playground will be closed. During the closure period, the old building on-site will be demolished and a temporary building put in...
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Timbuktu Adventure Playground
Timbuktu is a safe haven – the garden that everyone wants to play in. Come make new friends, paint your portrait, climb on the rope bridge, hide in the treehouse,...
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Toffee Park Adventure Playground
Toffee Park is in the heart of the city, close to the Old Street roundabout and surrounded by buildings but the playground itself is a haven for nature, including plants,...
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58% of Islington’s population live in social housing – 68% of these children attend adventure playgrounds
Why Play matters
Play is what happens when children are given the space to be themselves and explore their world, learning about what works and what doesn’t, in pursuit of their own intrinsic aims.
