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Children’s Play

BIG’s Children’s Play Initiative
Area:
England
Total available:
£155 million
Application deadline:
10/09/2007 00:00:00

This programme is closed for applications


The Children’s Play initiative aimed to:


  • create, improve and develop children and young people’s free local play spaces and opportunities throughout England, according to need 
  • support innovation and new ways of providing for children’s play 
  • create a support and development infrastructure to ensure local agencies have the resources and skills to achieve the first two aims 
  • promote the long-term strategic and sustainable provision for play as a free public service to children 
  • ensure that local authorities work with other local stakeholders to develop children’s play strategies and plans 
  • ensure that good, inclusive and accessible children’s play services and facilities are provided locally. 


The Children’s Play Initiative was delivered in three strands:

Children’s Play programme (£123 million awarded) 
Playful Ideas programme (£12 million awarded) 
Play England project (£15 million awarded)

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