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At adventure playgrounds the children choose the content of their play. They decide what to do with their time, their space and their bodies.
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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.
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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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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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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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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This October half term Islington Play Association is running free play services at four adventure Playgrounds. We will have bonfires, mask making, football, dancing and most importantly free play. Outdoor...
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Our Freeling Street Transformation has just won Bronze in Islington in Bloom’s competition for the best edible garden!
Visit Freeling Street Transformation to read more…
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On the 6th of October 2021 the government plans to cut Family Tax Credit back to its pre-pandemic level. This means a £20 loss per week for the UKs most disadvantaged...
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London Play spent two days with children on IPA adventure Playgrounds this summer. The children created processions which they took to Caledonian Road and Whitecross Street. Crumbles Castle children were...
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All children at Islington Adventure Playgrounds were able to receive free lunches every day of the summer holidays in 2021. Children can’t flourish when they are hungry which is why...
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We have a new skateboard ramp at Lumpy Hill Adventure Playground. Children have helped to build and decorate this fabulous structure which is used for skating, biking and a myriad...
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Hundreds of children played on our adventure playgrounds every day of the summer holidays in 2021!
This summer IPA supported children in their play eight hours a day, 5 days a...
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https://islingtonplay.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/a-walk-through-cardboard-city.mp4
Watch the film of children and families building their cardboard city on Play Day 2021.
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35% increase in the number of children attending our sites in 2016 Source: Annual Report 2016