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The Dudley Children's Play Initiative - Just Enjoy
More children: More opportunities: More choice: More control: More often.
The Dudley children's play initiative aims to deliver up to one million new play hours for up to ten thousand children and young people across Dudley over the next three years. The portfolio will contribute towards making a long-term positive change for children's play and help improve play outcomes for a large number of children in Dudley.
The programme, subtitled Just Enjoy, will provide a summer holiday play programme for profoundly disabled young people, a range of play activities for other disabled children and a new play ranger programme in public parks across the borough. The programme will also establish twenty new local play partnerships and fund three new multiuse games areas in Brierley Hill, Netherton and Wollescote, a children's play area in Wordsley and Netherton and a new skate park in North Dudley.
The programme started on 29th July 2007 and involves fourteen organisations including the Brierley Hill Youth Forum, the Kids Orchard organisation in Lye, the Rollercoasters disability charity and the Bowling Green Road Tenants and Residents Association in Netherton.
The programme has been led by the Dudley Children and Young People's Partnership and the portfolio has been prioritised by a panel of children, young people and community representatives.
The portfolio is managed by the Directorate of Children's Services working closely with the new Dudley Play Partnership, set up to be the new 'voice for children's play' and help embed high quality children's play opportunities across the borough.
If you would like to find out more about this programme click on the application folder and you can read all about our application the Big Lottery Fund Children's Play Programme.
The Big Lottery Fund awarded £690,320 of lottery funding so we can get going to deliver up to a million play hours across the borough.
Equipment
On the 24th of June 2009, the children and young people play pathfinder decision making panel “Design 2Gether” attended the Play Fair event at Stoneleigh Park in Coventry. The panel were tasked with testing play equipment and making recommendations for the
purchase of equipment for the Play Pathfinder wave 2 play sites. This document shows the group’s top choices, accompanied by their reasoning and quotes.
The consultation
A programme of consultation road shows in June, July and August 2006 involved children and young people in the development and prioritisation of the key Play themes and needs for the Dudley Play Strategy which will be used to allocate the £690,320 Big Lottery Fund Children's Play Initiative funding.
The Just Enjoy Roadshow toured 20 venues around Dudley visiting schools, community events and festivals offering workshop sessions providing opportunities for children and young people to contribute their ideas and express their opinions in different ways.
65 young people contributed to the video pieces and provided parental/carer consent to be broadcast on Just Enjoy TV.
More than 250 children took part in creative workshops making animations, radio pieces and songs.
1000 voted on the interactive kiosks in the consultation POD.
1800 children filled in and posted Competition Post Cards.
The roadshow connected with young people at the following venues and events ...
Dudley Performing Arts Festival, Himley Hall & Park; Vale Street recreation ground Fun Day, Upper Gornal; Netherton Park Fun Day, Netherton; Springfield Fun Day, Western Avenue, Brierley Hill; Broadfield House Glass Museum Family Day, Kingswinford.
Just Enjoy creative workshops took place at Pens Meadow Special School, Brierley Hill; Tenterfields Primary School, Halesowen; Wren's Nest Primary, Dudley and in Summer Schools at Coseley School & Sports College, Coseley; Summerhill School, Kingswinford; Thorns Community College, Brierley Hill.
Competition Post Cards were distributed to these schools ...
Brierley Hill Primary; Hawbush Primary, Brierley Hill; Jessons CE Primary, Dudley; Old Park Special School, Russells Hall Estate; Roberts Primary, Lower Gornal; St James's CE Primary, Stourbridge; The Glynne Primary, Kingswinford; Wallbrook Primary, Bilston; Wollescote Primary, Stourbridge
Contact
Lindsay Newton
Head of Development
Dudley MBC
Directorate of Children's Services
Westox House
1 Trinity Road
Dudley
West Midlands
DY1 1JQ
Tel: 01384 813 716
email: lindsay.newton@dudley.gov.uk