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What is it? What does it do?


Think-do: do-think tank

Some have said we’re a ‘sort of think tank’, but that is inaccurate and limiting.

However, sticking for the moment with the ‘tank’ idea, my current best stab at describing PLAYLINK is that it is a ‘think-do: do-think tank’. We fulfil consultancy and advisory roles, run workshops and conferences, publish articles, issue briefings.

But we also get our hands dirty: our design work is directed towards creating as beautiful-and-as-functional-as-they-can-be shared public spaces, housing estates and developments, spaces and places for play, school playgrounds and much else.

In all our endeavours, we aim always to expand the range of what is thought possible, to question assumptions, and to be persuasive about what we know and believe.

We therefore work with and for RSLs, local authorities, heritage bodies, local voluntary groups, schools, children’s centres, parks departments, in fact with anyone who shares our interests and concerns.

Our claim is that our work on the ground informs and feeds into our consultancy and advisory roles, and vice versa.

The significance of the ‘LINK’

As the ‘LINK’ part of our name implies, our expertise, interests and activities extend beyond play.

But weaving children and teenagers into the wider fabric of social life is one of our core purposes.

Below is an activity and client summary list. It requires only quick perusal to get a sense of what we do.

Bernard Spiegal
PLAYLINK

 

Consultancy/advisory/workshops/conferences

Design through to realisation on the ground

Clients include:

A2Dominion Housing Group

Adventure Associates

Aiming High, LB Hounslow

Brighton & Hove City Council

Coventry City Council

East Sussex County Council

Environmental Projects Team, Lancashire County Council

Exeter City Council

Forestry Commission

Green Spaces

Hounslow Heath Infant and Nursery School

Learning Trust, Hackney

Liverpool City Council

Mindstretchers, Scotland

National Trust

Children & Families Service, Nottingham City Council

Places for People

PLAYLINK Study Tours and Residential: London and Scotland

Play Association Tower Hamlets (PATH)

Playscape Training

Play England

Play Wales

Redbridge Borough Council

‘Risk it’ Conference - Stirling

St Edmunsbury Borough Council

SkillsActive

Southwark Borough Council

Tower Hamlets Borough Council

West Play

Clients include:

A2Dominion Housing Group

Argent Development

Barratts West London

Brighton & Hove City Council

Carterton Town Council

Glamis Community Nursery

Guinness Trust

Hounslow Borough Council

Hounslow Heath Infant and Nursery School

Hub Children’s Centre

Kilchoan, West Ardnamurchan Community Council, Scotland

Learning Trust, Hackney

Oxford City Council

Redbridge Borough Council

St Edmunsbury Borough Council

South Somerset District Council

 

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