Timbuktu is Back!
Timbuktu is once again, open 5 days a week. We are back to our regular holiday opening times from the 4th of April, and will return to regular term time...
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News & Blog
We are always busy here at IPA with amazing projects, events and sessions taking place all over the borough. To keep informed about our work look no further. Our aim is to continually create exciting places for children to play and to increase their accessibility to those opportunities. Everything we do is designed with the playing child at the heart and we are super proud of our staff, volunteers and partners who make it all happen.
Adventure Playgrounds – What are they like?
Adventure Playgrounds are amazing creative places where children can play freely. Children are amazing creative people who need to play. IPA believes that it is essential for children to have...
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Volunteering at IPA in 1973
Being a volunteer for Islington Play Association
It was 1973 and I’d just finished school, for good. I was due to go to university in the autumn, and really wanted to...
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Closure due to Storm Eunice – 18/2/22
We are sorry that we have to close our adventure playgrounds on Friday 18/2/22 due to the potential danger of Storm Eunice. There are a number of large trees at...
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February Half Term
This half term children will be cooking on bonfires, making valentines cards, walking on stilts and playing outside in all kinds of weather. We have a full program at three...
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School Visits for Better Mental Health
IPA have enjoyed an excellent autumn/winter project at our adventure playgrounds working with school children who have been affected by the pandemic to help them overcome some of their difficulties....
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Timbuktu: Reduced Hours from 15th of February
We will be open for just two days during the February half term. Tuesday 15th and Thursday the 17th of February. Children can arrive on site at 10.30, we close...
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BBC Sounds on Adventure Playgrounds featuring our CEO
Have a listen to our CEO being interviewed on the fundamental importance of free play for children via the link below:
The Imperilled Adventures of the Adventure Playground – BBC Sounds
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IPA Art Gallery
At adventure playgrounds the children choose the content of their play. They decide what to do with their time, their space and their bodies.
One of the great joys of being...
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Fabulous Murals at Toffee Park: Thank you to everyone who supports us!
Children at Toffee Park Playground have worked and played alongside artists from Mine Sweeper Collective to make two wonderful murals at their playground.
The pictures above do more than words to...
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Adventure Playgrounds closed for two days for staff training: 23rd and 30th of November
All of our adventure playground will be closed after school on the 23rd and 30th of November. Both days are Tuesdays. Our whole staff team are completing Trauma Informed Practice...
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Islington4Women’s Walk, AGM and Green 50th Celebration of IPA
Please join us for our final Islington4Women’s walk, green 50th birthday, and AGM.
We can’t wait to see you there!
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