Play Midlothian
Part of Organised Outdoor Community Play Fund.
Play Midlothian is an award-winning small charity that supports children’s health, wellbeing and development through play-based services, primarily outdoors. Each year they transform the lives of hundreds of children in need, including children with disabilities, from minority ethnic backgrounds or living in areas of multiple deprivation.
Funding supports Play Midlothian’s Out2Play service, helping children to thrive in areas of multiple deprivation.
The focus is on outdoor play such as den-building, games, nature crafts, building with ‘loose parts’, and campfires, as well as active and sporting activities, facilitated by skilled project team.
This encourages children’s use of available urban greenspace, facilitates their wishes for use of this public space, and frees children’s natural potential for building skills, relationships and wellbeing.
21.11.2023
16 Days of Activism 2023 – Imagine a Scotland without Gender Based Violence
Each year between the 25th November and 10th December communities across the world take part in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. The campaign calls for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls. In Scotland, this year’s 16 Days of Activism wants us to ‘Imagine a Scotland without Gender Based
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15.11.2023
PEEK showcase partnership programme supported by Building Brighter Futures Fund
Our Building Brighter Futures Fund (BBFF) team recently visited Govan High School alongside the Hub Community Foundation (HCF) where PEEK showcased their ‘Your Choice’ programme delivered in partnership with Govan High School and Police Scotland. Your Choice is PEEK’s early intervention project funded by BBFF to support young people disengaging from mainstream educational provision with
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13.11.2023
What did you do before the streetlights came on?
As the clocks go back and the night draws in, it got me thinking about my childhood, and the unwritten rule that when the streetlights came on, we all knew it was time to go home and play time was over.  Now, as a parent myself, these universal ‘rules’ have changed. The surge in technology
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