The Playin' Out Team are an outreach team created by Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust to provide play activities for children. 

 

The team have had a great Easter even with the rain, so thank you for everyone for joining in! A selection of pictures from the last two weeks play sessions will be up shortly, so don't forget to have a look!  FREE Play sessions for Under 5s The team are starting a weekly play session for children 5 years and under. We'll be hunting, drawing, running around and getting messy over the next six weeks, so come along and join in. * Mesnes Park (The Play Shak), Wigan. Every Friday from 20th April to 1st June - 11:00am-12:30pm For more information call us on 01942 487634 / 07930 359239 Don't forget, the team are still out and about during term time so watch your local play space!

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Philosophy
The Play Section understand the value of risk and the benefits risk has to children and their well being. We try our best to promote risk in play and most of our play sessions will contain elements of risk taking. All our sessions are ‘Open Access Play Provision’. The definition of this is:

Open Access Play Provision is a service for children first. It is intended to provide an environment where children can explore and extend their own play. The term Open Access means that children are free to come and go, as they want. It is not a childcare service and Playworkers will not be responsible for children once they leave the play session.

If you would like to check if planned sessions are still going ahead, then please don’t hesitate to contact us on: 01942 487634 or 07930 359239. For more information about The Play'In Out Team and its play sessions please contact Diane Winnard on 01942 487634 or email d.winnard@wlct.org

What are our aims?

• To identify projects and work in partnership with local communities to facilitate play
• Develop play services within the Borough
• To help exercise the right of every child to play.

What can we offer?

• A dynamic, creative and energetic team of qualified children’s Playworkers
• A large selection of mobile resources
• Play related workshops
• A large selection of play packages
• A needs-led service that is flexible and will meet the needs of the community.

Session Information

• They are all FREE!
• No need to book, just turn up! 
• Wear old clothes - we love to get messy! 
• Our activities may involve ‘Risky’ play

The Playin' Out Team are asking children to challenge us into running a play session on ANY green space near their street. This means we want YOU ( or you can ask an adult) to phone us up on 01942 487634 and book us to come and play on any green space you can find… what are you waiting for?! This will be a FREE play session for you and your friends.

Den Building at Pennington	Parachute Fun at Leigh Library
Pancake Time at Jubilee Park	Trampoline at Jubilee Park
Stick Sculpture at Jubilee Park	Our Nature Boat at Mesnes Park
Totem Pole at Pennington