Welcome to the Sheffield Play Partnership.
Sheffield Play Partnership is open to all playworkers, including any ex-playworkers wanting to keep in touch with the sector, play organisations and community organisations providing play and related activities for children aged 5-14 years.
During 2022 we finalised our new Discovering Play course that creates opportunities for people to learn more about Play & Playwork. During 2023 we will be expanding this to include one off stand alone workshops in other Play related topics including Safeguarding, Cooking Outdoors and more.
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Our Story…
In October 2015 we launched Sheffield Play Association at Sheffield Winter Gardens. Sheffield Play Association was initiated by four community based organisations delivering play in their communities, Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, Manor After School Kids Club, Highfields Adventure Playground and Friends of Richmond Park following concerns that support for play and playwork in Sheffield was in decline and that many community playschemes and community led play facilities were no longer happening. In 2022 we revisited our purpose and renamed ourselves to Sheffield Play Partnership. The main reason for the re-name was to promote the much needed partnerships and sharing of the even more reduced resources.
We think that now is the time to:
- Promote the benefits of play and playwork for children, their families and the wider community
- Unite playworkers, play organisations and individuals interested in promoting play and playwork
- Support each other, share ideas and promote good practice
- Support the development of new community based playschemes and play services
- Deliver a shared training offer to help increase the capacity of the playwork workforce
Why Play?
Latest News
Adolescence and Play
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing” (George Bernard Shaw). Play is frequently valued as being beneficial for young children with less recognition for the continuing and evolving benefits for young people. Play is often...
Playwork: Principles into Practice, a first for Sheffield
SLLRRRP I learned a new acronym on a very, very wet Friday morning in October. I was invited, as a trustee of MASKK, to sit in on a training session for playworkers at Temple Park Centre, and I joined ten students, who are aiming for a Agored Cymru Level 2 Certificate...
Lord Mayor’s seal of approval for Playwork training
Playwork training in Sheffield has been given a welcome boost and a massive seal of approval from Sheffield’s worshipful Lord Mayor Sioned-Mair Richard’s. Parent’s,volunteers and local workers from Sharrow, Manor, Woodthorpe, Wybourn and the Pitsmoor areas of the...
Playwork Principles
They describe what is unique about play and playwork, and provide the playwork perspective for working with children and young people.
They are based on the recognition that children and young people’s capacity for positive development will be enhanced if given access to the broadest range of environments and play opportunities.
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Our Partners:
Highfields Adventure Playground
MASKK
Pitsmoor Adventure Playground
