Lollard Street Adventure Playground was created in 1954 on the site of a school that had been bombed during the war years. It continues today, run by Lambeth Council, and provides school-aged children with opportunities to play, after school, at weekends and during school holidays, that are difficult to find elsewhere in our busy, urban environment.
Fenced and secure, the playground is an oasis in the middle of a densely built-up neighbourhood where children are supervised by trained, professional play workers who are always on hand to help out if needed, who know when to intervene, but also know when to stand back and let children work things out for themselves.
Lollard Street playground has quiet indoor space where children can read, do homework or participate in creative art activities and the outdoor space, with its unique play structures, enables them to explore, experiment, and experience the wide, wonderful world around them and engage freely in play activities that a generation ago would have been taken for granted.
The children are encouraged to play a part in the ongoing design and construction of their adventure playground. This gives them the opportunity to explore, test, create, build and rebuild their play space, and encourages them to feel at home in the playground and treat it well.
All over the country sadly, and increasingly, many children are unable or not allowed to go out to play because safe outdoor spaces are hard to find, so now is the time to get involved in ensuring that this vital provision for the health and well-being of local children is preserved and developed for future generations.
There is an intention to form a Friends of Lollard Street Adventure Playground (FOLSAP). If you are committed to improving the community for children and could help with tasks such as administration, fundraising and management. If you would like to support the work of a committed team of play workers and can help to advance the children’s ideas for development of their play space you are warmly invited to attend an inaugural meeting of the Friends on Wednesday, 20th January at 1pm.
If you have always wanted to be more involved in your community but didn’t know how, come along and see what you can do.
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