Register Your Child for Adventure Play
We want you to come and play! Register your child for our adventure playgrounds now. For children aged 6 years and upwards.
Read more
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.
Find out more
Latest
Professor Helen Dodd, University of Exeter, speech at the Four Nations Play policy conversation.
On the 15th of March the Four Nations Play policy conversation was held. The key note speaker was Professor Helen Dodd from Exeter University.
In the second half of this video,...
Read more
Outdoor Challenge: Special Report – A taste for adventure
Here is an article by Nicole Weinstein featuring our CEO, Anita Grant and talks about children’s outdoor play.
Original source: Outdoor Challenge: Special Report – A taste for adventure | Nursery...
Read more
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.
View playground
Our Spaces to Play
Crumbles Castle Adventure Playground
Crumbles Castle is overlooks Bingfield Park. as you enter the playground you will find yourself transported out of the city and into a nature-filled wonderland with hidden swings and secret...
Read more
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.
It is...
Read more
Martin Luther King Adventure Playground (Temporarily Closed)
Martin Luther King Adventure Playground is currently closed for improvements . We now have a temporary building and are waiting for toilets and electricity to be installed.
Martin Luther King Adventure...
Read more
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,...
Read more
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,...
Read more
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.
