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Parks for Play is an exceptional charity set up by parents play and youth professionals in 2004 with a determination to address the absence of inclusive community provision.
We have been connecting communities through delivering inclusive play and leisure opportunities in community venues, streets and of course parks, since its inception.
In 2015 until 2016, working from Uffculme Special School in Moseley, Parks for Play set up the Playwell specialist afterschool playcare which ran every day during term time offering customised and subsidised play care so that families with disabled children could pay equitable rates for children and were ABLE to attend training and employment.
This was the first such provision in Birmingham and possibly the country. It was created in response to parent demand to fill a serious gap in suitable childcare.
In 2017 Parks led an Equality Access to Employment Campaign to:
In 2015 Parks for Play and sister organisation Dens of Equality won the best practice award for ‘best playwork in other context’ at the National Playwork Conference.
In 2017 we were awarded Gold at Kings Heath BID’s partnership Community Champion Awards for our contribution to children and equalities.
A long search for appropriate accommodation followed and in 2021 Parks for Play took the plunge and now has its own home at an ex-city council playcentre. This move has eliminated the barriers that accompanied school-based delivery. Children and young people own their new space.