Playwork Partnerships
Project Manager - Martin Maudsley
Francis Close Hall
Swindon Road
Cheltenham
GL50 4AZ
T: 01242 714531
F: 01242 230413
Playwork Partnerships is a networking and training organisation. Playwork Partherships’ mission is to enrich children and young people's lives through their experience of quality play, by promoting the importance of play and playwork and increasing the learning opportunities for playworkers.
Playwork Partnerships’ strategic priorities are:
- To promote awareness and understanding of play and playwork.
- To promote the power and capacity of playwork by supporting the development agenda regionally, nationally and internationally.
- To increase access to playwork qualifications, training and learning.
- To develop and market a co-ordinated package of playwork learning products that support continuing professional development needs.
In 2003, Playwork Partnerships set up Wild About Play – a networking and training project to promote, support and develop environmental playwork in the UK.
The purpose of Playwork Partnerships’ work in CWLWM is to extend the range of training opportunities for playworkers in Wales, and to increase confidence and skills in facilitating children’s outdoor play. The training will provide an opportunity to augment specific knowledge and skills in environmental playwork for practitioners with existing qualifications. It will also apply playwork principles and best practice to a particular and growing role within playwork - Play Rangers. Both training modules will be developed with experienced playworkers and trainers in Wales to effectively meet current training needs, ensure sustainability of the training provision and help counteract gender imbalances in the workforce. The work will link with and complement broad playwork education and training provision being developed in CWLWM by Play Wales.
Playwork Partnerships’ CWLWM work will result in:
- Highlighting the importance and value of outdoor play experiences for children, and raising the profile and accessibility of playwork as a profession.
- The establishment of two new tailored playwork training courses in environmental play (level 3) and play ranger roles (induction and level 2), to support and equip playworkers who work outdoors with children, with high quality training materials and publications to support the courses.
- An increased number of trained and motivated playwork tutors who can deliver training courses on facilitating children’s outdoor play to existing and potential playworkers in Wales.
For further information about Playwork Partnerships click here to visit their website.
