Welcome to the Play Torbay website. This information hub is for everyone in Torbay involved in creating, organising and facilitating play – it is also for you if you are interested in play or just love playing.
Play Torbay is an incorporated charity launched on 7 October 2010. Our aim is to improve the quality and quantity of play provision for children and young people living in Torbay and raise awareness about the importance of play in children’s lives.
Our core activities are:
- Adventure Play in the Bay
- Doorstep Adventures
- Combo Adventures
- Epic Adventures
- Young Play Torbay: FUNK (in the BAY); the Canterers
- Creative Play Journeys
- Play Rangers
- Adventure Play – developments at Brixham: Indigos and Torquay: Fort Apache
We raise funds to provide free activities and transport for children across the Bay particularly for those who may not be able to access opportunities otherwise.
Our Vision
We provide:
- New facilities for children and young people
- More facilities and opportunities for playworkers and people who work with children and young people
- Continued delivery, maintenance and support for existing community facilities and play opportunities for children
- Promotion of accessible play opportunities for all children and young people in Torbay
- A new membership play association supporting children’s play in Torbay; PLAY TORBAY
Play Torbay supports the development of the Free Time Consortium. Play England is already working directly with our local play organisation to broker good working relationships between council staff and the voluntary sector. This new initiative will provides us with up to date information, advice and guidance both by word of mouth, through seminars and through their website. Their support for our successes has helped establish us as a credible third sector organisation.
We mainly work with children and families who are disadvantaged for a number of reasons including poverty and disability; with the support of Play England we have explored the potential of offering play to local children and looking at ways to develop community cohesion.
Our adventure play areas have brought together parents and local people and built new social networks helping us to get families to know each other and give parents more confidence to let their children play outside. In Torbay there is a significant older population and some evidence that children are regarded with hostility. Play England has through both national and local networks raised the profile of play, the importance of children in the public realm and the vital importance of play children’s social and physical well being.
If you would like more details download the Play Torbay Business Plan and our Memoradum of Association .
Are you interested in joining Play Torbay? If you would like more information please register with us today – call (01803) 850157 or email admin@playtorbay.org.uk
