Eleanor Image's Stories

Archikids

Open City Archikids Festival 2013 Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May A weekend of activities encouraging families to explore the City of London. Build a giant cardboard city, play with shadows and puppets, make mazes with string, whizz round Broadga...
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Playable space round The Hut

Playable space at The Hut On Sunday March 24th local people came to see concept designs done by PLAYLINK for the green space at the Hut. Both adults and children looked at the range of ideas and had comments to share that will help towards the fina...
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Holly Folly in Victoria Park

Holly Folly Come and join the Keep Playing team to create a piece of playful art in Victoria Park. Following on from sessions making clay holly leaves with young people at Bethnal Green Academy the Keep Playing team and a local artist will be i...
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Play Champion London trip

Play Champions are on half term February 2013 Hurray it's half term and more children will be out playing around Tower Hamlets, whether playing at your local Adventure Playgroud, at home with friends or family, riding your bike in a park or going s...
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Thursday play at Whitehorse Adventure Playground

Every Thursday at Whitehorse Adventure Playground we have some playtime for parents from 1.30- 3.00pm. The idea is we share skills we have, learn from each other and meet new people. We have tried knitting and crochet, some of the children have exc...
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Ring Pull Bling

Kitty, one of the PATH playworkers,  made  me a spectacular necklace.  It is a lovely thing and every time I wear it someone notices it is made from the ring pulls from drinks cans and asks me how to make one.  Kitty has ki...
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Idea Store web site sessions

Become a Keep Playing reporter The Keep Playing Team will be at the Idea Store Bow on Thursdays starting March 1st Junior Play Champions will work with the Idea Store and Keep Playing Team to write articles, make videos and upload stories about...
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Pancake Day

Tuesday February 21st Children came to Mile End Childrens Park to celebrate pancake day. Using outdoor gas burners with the help of Play Champions and park rangers Paul, Sean, Rayne and Ivor. There was a pancake race with a real golden pan for ...
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Good news

Good news! The Marathon Trust has awarded PATH funding to work with Tower Hamlets Community Housing and Spitalfields Housing Association to improve an old play area and to access a piece of currently locked green space on an estate in Tower Hamlets. ...
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Can we do something for bonfire night

We have a weekly play session in the blocks around the Boundary estate one of ther Mums with 3 small children asked ''can we do something for bonfire night?'' we agreed to ask other residents and the housing officer about a small fire and some sparkler...
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Junior Champions show us their free running skills

Junior Play Champions Conor and Charlie free running video -   Charlie and Connor are keen street runners. Where better to practice their skills than in their local adventure playground in Bethnal Green. In this short film Charli...
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Play Champion in Mile End Park

Paul Sammut has been working with children in Tower Hamlets for years. He is a great champion for children's play and finds lots of creative things to do on small budgets. This summer Mile End Children's Park had lots of free play events for childr...
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What does a Play Champion do?

I went to visit a play session at Eric Street to talk to some parents and children about being Play Champions. "What would I have to do?" asked Ruhela " would I have to go to meetings? " As a Mum with young children going to meetings that are often at ...
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Are chalk drawings anti social behaviour?

We have been running play sessions on the Boundary estate since March 2011 some of the courtyards are car free and great places to play. Children meet up and ride their bikes and scooters here. Once a week Playworkers bring extra resources to extend th...
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Eric Street play space

PATH were contacted about potential funding from KerryGold, a dairy collective who wanted to give £20,000 to create a play space in an urban environment. We knew East End Homes had spaces around estates where children could be playing and had work...
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Want to help plan an event?

Would you like to plan an event with the Keep Playing team? We know there have been some great Halloween events happening around the borough some put on at play places like Mile End Park and others that people have organised locally. Tell us what y...
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Play Pod

The Play Pod is a thing of mystery. Looking like a green shipping container or a green tardis it lives in Mile End park next to Solebay bridge. It appeared in April 2009 next to a busy pedestrian route through the park.  We opened the doors of...
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Please can we have

There is lots of building work going on around the estates we are working in and scaffolding netting is such a great play resource. ''Please can we have some of your netting'' I asked a builder on St Georges estate ''how much do you want?'' he replied ...
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Muna wants her children to play out

Muna has been bringing her children to the PATH Keep Playing play sessions on St Georges estate throughout the summer of 2011. Originally from Somalia, Muna says that she likes to come to St Georges because it is a lovely garden and that it reminds her...
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