Part of Organised Outdoor Community Play Fund.
East Lothian Play Association (ELPA) is a group of interested community members and play practitioners who are supported by community development workers, representatives from IPA and Support from the Start.
Everyone with an interest in children’s play can be part of ELPA whether that interest is family, professional or academic. ELPA believe that all children, regardless of ability or background, have the right to play.
ELPA aims to promote children’s right to play (article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child). Share the benefits and value of play for all children and young people living in the community and also to support people who work with children.
ELPA’s experience of outdoor play includes delivering free play training events, supporting community play events including #Tinkertown, delivering loose parts play development projects in early years, schools and community settings as well as delivering play rangers project.
Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service
Read MoreWe recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive. The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children” Since 2016, Inspiring
Read MoreEarlier this month, some of the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to
Read More