Timbuktu Adventure Playground - Girl with facepaint

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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, build a den, plant a seed or take a risk on the thrilling drop slide.

It is important that parents and carers understand that our playgrounds are not childcare services, they are play services. You should read more about this by following this link. Our open access adventure play service is for children aged 6 years and upwards. All of our playgrounds are free of charge.

The playground is hidden in plain site with wooden fences shielding a fun filled play space for all ages. There is an enormous sand pit and a pond with frogs and apple trees. Timbuktu provides an exciting and safe space for children to jump, climb, run and enjoy playing out, to meet neighbours and friends and explore the world of their imagination.

Please make sure your children are dressed for playing outside. This means clothes that can get dirty, play is a messy business. 

History:

When it first started, Timbuktu was known as Hanley Crouch Adventure Playground. It was set up by local residents and originally was sited just around the corner next to the Laundry. In its early years the playground was quite anarchic and political. Initially, with no building, the winter months were hard, until refuge was found through taking over the Laundry. This became the playground’s building and was originally run on a local neighbour’s electricity. Hanley Crouch Adventure Playground included a double decker bus which took children on trips out of the area. The playground moved to its current site in the mid 1980’s and changed its name to Timbuktu not long after. The Adventure Playground has since welcomed generations of Islington’s children to play.

Find Timbuktu Adventure Playground

Address: Grenville Road, London, N19 4EJ
Telephone: 020 7272 2183
Email: timbuktu@islingtonplay.org.uk

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Timbuktu adventure Playground map

Hire Timbuktu

Timbuktu is available for parties on Sundays and Mondays during term-time and on Saturdays and Sundays during the school holidays. It provides a lovely private space for you and your guests to enjoy the equipment and structures and to play hide and seek or other games. You can use the kitchen and the hall to create your own party environment. Please contact info@islingtonplay.org.uk for further info

We are not currently taking party bookings or private hire requests. We are sorry for any inconvenience or disappointment. We hope to resume later in 2023.

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Timbuktu Adventure Playground structure
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