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Join us in making a set of playlaws for Cambridge in 2023! Playlaws are funny, permissive, and fanciful and will challenge people to be more playful

 Warren Close, Cambs 1km radius
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Joined April 2023
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cambridge.gov.uk/news/2024/1… Demanding Playlaws indeed

Revealing the new Cambridge playlaws

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Replying to @Paul_Lindley @TomHayesBmouth @annelongfield @EugeneMinogue @playingout @aliceplayingout @naomiruthnr @PlayEngland
have you seen the cambridgeplaylaws.fun/ @theplaylaws - very much about taking S106 contributions and turning byelaws into co-created Play Laws in a designated S106 zone in central Cambs
Make Cambridge Playlaws and share your Memories of Play

Make Cambridge Playlaws and share your Memories of Play

Join us in making a set of playlaws for Cambridge in 2023! Playlaws are funny and will challenge people to be more playful in our city centre.

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I appreciated @annelongfield’s really excellent answer to my question in a committee meeting today about the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Play sufficiency and a national play strategy would be superb first steps towards improving our playgrounds.
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The work we have been doing in Cambridge (@ThePlaylaws), Leeds and specifically Harehills with Nesta & Leeds City Council is cited in this post from Nesta
Anne Longfield (@annelongfield) profile pictureAnne Longfield@annelongfield8 Jan 2025
Play renaissance: this is the year play gets serious | Nesta nesta.org.uk/feature/future-…
Play renaissance: this is the year play gets serious

Play renaissance: this is the year play gets serious

After a decade in the wilderness, play is about to rocket up the political and policy agenda in England

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One of the artists involved in the Cambridge Playlaws is Pippa Hale, she's been busy in Leeds in the last week too, with the launch of a major new public art sculpture 'Ribbons' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c148…
Leeds: Ribbons sculpture celebrates city's inspiring women

Leeds: Ribbons sculpture celebrates city's inspiring women

The artwork is now permanently on display outside Leeds Playhouse in Quarry Hill.

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News in brief: troublesome teens and playful plaques buff.ly/3zKyIZC
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Replying to @dave_mcpartlin
Harry aged 2 would agree! @ThePlaylaws (The dog isn’t called Harry as far as we know) cambridgeplaylaws.fun/playma…
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A symbolic act may be to remove No Ball Games signs. How about replacing with locally suggested alternatives? Like ‘Jumpers for Goalposts’ as suggested by resident Owen. Now a real plaque with QR code on Parker’s Piece, Cambridge cambridgeplaylaws.fun/playma… @ThePlaylaws
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This is such an epic pic of Donna from last weekends @ThePlaylaws launch
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This article about enjoying the playful benefits of mud made me think about one of the @ThePlaylaws suggested by 2 year old Harry last year. theguardian.com/society/2024… @neil_play @harrietgrant @camcitco
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No Playlaws, as yet, saying 'every public space should have giant ball runs' but it can only be a matter of time before people see sense...#CambridgePlaylaws Pics by @clairehaighpics
A giant soft ball marble run made with plastic guttering with a yellow bucket catching balls. A 3 year old boy at the top of the marble run beaming from ear to ear

ALT A giant soft ball marble run made with plastic guttering with a yellow bucket catching balls. A 3 year old boy at the top of the marble run beaming from ear to ear

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We had such a lovely launch weekend, so many great pictures to share, here are few to whet your appetite from fantastic photographer Claire Haigh. 1) Akua Obeng-Frimpong and her Playlaw 'Make Big Strides' on Parker's Piece... cambridgeplaylaws.fun/playma… #CambridgePlaylaws
The picture is of Akua next to a bright yellow circular heritage style plaque on the railings next to famous green space in the centre of Cambridge, Parkers Piece. Akua is lifting her leg to make a big stride. She has a smile on her face

ALT The picture is of Akua next to a bright yellow circular heritage style plaque on the railings next to famous green space in the centre of Cambridge, Parkers Piece. Akua is lifting her leg to make a big stride. She has a smile on her face

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2) Wow what a shot! This is Joe Lewis, one of the 3 co-directors of the amazing community indoor Skate Park 'The Warehouse' which opened last weekend. Here he is close to Donkey Common where the 'Can you do a 360 Flip' Playlaw plaque is located. cam-skate.co.uk/#:~:text=Cam…
Pictured is Joe Lewis, mid air, skateboard sideways on, performing the very difficult 360 flip. He tells us he first learnt this when he was about 15 with much practice.

ALT Pictured is Joe Lewis, mid air, skateboard sideways on, performing the very difficult 360 flip. He tells us he first learnt this when he was about 15 with much practice.

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Wiggling away so fast that all we can see is a blur...Before this little patch of land didn't have a name, until Ella and her dad did a wiggle dance and named it 'Wiggle Bottom Park' inspiring new shapes/shimmers and a playlist no less cambridgeplaylaws.fun/playma…
this picture has an adult on the left frolicking in a blur as she shimmies and wiggles in front of a Playlaw plaque on a plinth. This Playlaw is a yellow heritage style plaque on the edge of a manicured pocket park in the heart of Cambridge, just metres up from the train station. Next to her is a girl with a mauve pink pair of trousers and a mint top, her arms outwide, wiggling.

ALT this picture has an adult on the left frolicking in a blur as she shimmies and wiggles in front of a Playlaw plaque on a plinth. This Playlaw is a yellow heritage style plaque on the edge of a manicured pocket park in the heart of Cambridge, just metres up from the train station. Next to her is a girl with a mauve pink pair of trousers and a mint top, her arms outwide, wiggling.

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This wonderful initiative by @camcitco @theplaylaws is a reminder of what George Bernard Shaw reminded us “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5e…
Plaques across Cambridge demand people play

Plaques across Cambridge demand people play

New signs appear encouraging people to wiggle their bottoms and salute birds.

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Over the weekend we had the pleasure of visiting the new Cam Skate Indoor Park and meeting the co-founders. One of our 10.6 Plaques is 'Can you do a 360degree flip'? Watch Joe Lewis in action cambridgeplaylaws.fun/playma…
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Plaques across city demand people play bbc.in/3zIWiWz
Plaques across Cambridge demand people play

Plaques across Cambridge demand people play

New signs appear encouraging people to wiggle their bottoms and salute birds.

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This PlayLaw is wonderful, in a world where spaces are designed to stop young people loitering & this is just a part of being young. Us older folk took loitering for granted. Better, it's in a space where young folk love to loiter. Wonderful stuff @ThePlaylaws @CambJunction
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Last summer 4,500 people took part in play activities, 80 people shared their memories of play, and 450 new ‘playlaws’ were suggested. One person who shared their memories of play in Cambridge was Mary, who used to play in the Cattle Market at what is now Cambridge Leisure.
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