Health & Wellbeing Education & Young People 2025
Play Gloucestershire

Play Gloucestershire Impact Report 2025

Play Gloucestershire is an 18-year-old Gloucestershire charity delivering outdoor community play and therapeutic playwork for school-aged children and their families, particularly those from disadvantaged, rurally isolated communities or those impacted by adverse childhood experiences. In 2025 it delivered 15,076 play visits across 52 locations, supported 640 children through targeted Play Nurture sessions, and received a National Playwork Award. The National Lottery Community Fund extended its Play 2 Nurture project funding, and a county-wide Play Strategy is being co-developed with statutory partners. Play Rangers act as trusted adults — providing therapeutic, relationship-led play that has led to housing interventions, family stabilisation and children disclosing their identities for the first time.

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📋About

Community Play sessions delivered by Play Rangers at 52 locations across urban and rural Gloucestershire; Play Nurture targeted therapeutic playwork for children experiencing emotional or economic hardship; Play Sanctuary indoor/outdoor therapeutic space; Play 2 Nurture school programme funded by National Lottery; Festival of Play for children in care (in partnership with the Virtual School); Park Activists social action programme; midday supervisor play training (Gloucestershire Learning Alliance); playwork training for The Belong School; play advocacy and county-wide Play Strategy development; Young Volunteer programme; transport support removing access barriers for vulnerable families Custom geography from upload: Gloucestershire, UK (52 locations across urban and rural communities)

📊Key Metrics

15,076 play visits across 52 locations in 2025; 640 children supported through targeted Play Nurture therapeutic sessions Key Metric 1
National Playwork Award received in 2025; National Lottery Community Fund extension secured for Play 2 Nurture project Key Metric 2
Playwork training delivered to educators, early help teams and other trusted adults across Gloucestershire; Young Volunteer cohort trained and deployed across county Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • A child with complex needs who initially stayed close to familiar adults began taking a Play Ranger's hand to lead her to chosen activities — school staff noted he was calmer, more engaged and better able to manage change
  • Three brothers fleeing domestic abuse, supported through play sessions and transport to The Play Sanctuary — Play Rangers escalated housing concerns leading to the family being moved into a permanent four-bedroom home shortly before Christmas
  • Children disclosed gender and sexual identities to Play Rangers for the first time with a trusted adult — made possible through a non-judgemental, play-led relationship rather than direct intervention

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