Playing Out
@playingout.bsky.social
We campaign for children's everyday freedom and right to play out near home. Founders of the UK-wide play street movement. www.playingout.net
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This will be a fabulous celebration of @playingout.bsky.social and all its allies, plotting next steps in the movement to reclaim children’s freedom to play out and move around safely and happily on their doorsteps and in their neighbourhoods.
Join us!
Join us!
Come to Bristol on 12th March! A day-conference bringing together people from across this wide and diverse movement for children's freedom and right to play out near home. Great speakers, lots of discussion. Low-cost and free ticket options! Don't miss it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
Celebrating 16yrs of Playing Out!
Join us in Bristol as we share learning, look ahead and release this amazing, diverse movement for children's freedom into the world.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This will be a fabulous celebration of @playingout.bsky.social and all its allies, plotting next steps in the movement to reclaim children’s freedom to play out and move around safely and happily on their doorsteps and in their neighbourhoods.
Join us!
Join us!
Come to Bristol on 12th March! A day-conference bringing together people from across this wide and diverse movement for children's freedom and right to play out near home. Great speakers, lots of discussion. Low-cost and free ticket options! Don't miss it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
Celebrating 16yrs of Playing Out!
Join us in Bristol as we share learning, look ahead and release this amazing, diverse movement for children's freedom into the world.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Come to Bristol on 12th March! A day-conference bringing together people from across this wide and diverse movement for children's freedom and right to play out near home. Great speakers, lots of discussion. Low-cost and free ticket options! Don't miss it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
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@playingout.bsky.social children were never asked if they would like to give up their natural playgrounds - the streets - and be cooped up indoors or cooped up in cars
I fervently believe that the fact that children and elders lead lives of isolation in cities and towns (absent daily efforts of their caregivers to ferry them around) should make plain what a terrible job we've done with building cities over the last 70 years.
New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy."
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September 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@playingout.bsky.social children were never asked if they would like to give up their natural playgrounds - the streets - and be cooped up indoors or cooped up in cars
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Tomorrow I'll be talking through the political process we went through on Wirral to get outdoor play on our council Work Programme.
Join the latest @playingout.bsky.social webinar if you can! Lots of other good stuff on the agenda as well 😎😀
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Join the latest @playingout.bsky.social webinar if you can! Lots of other good stuff on the agenda as well 😎😀
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment
Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Tomorrow I'll be talking through the political process we went through on Wirral to get outdoor play on our council Work Programme.
Join the latest @playingout.bsky.social webinar if you can! Lots of other good stuff on the agenda as well 😎😀
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Join the latest @playingout.bsky.social webinar if you can! Lots of other good stuff on the agenda as well 😎😀
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Not too late to join our FREE webinar this Wednesday lunchtime! Hear from Cllrs @edwardlamb.bsky.social and @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social on actions councils are taking to restore children's freedom, as well as 'big picture' stuff from us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment
Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not too late to join our FREE webinar this Wednesday lunchtime! Hear from Cllrs @edwardlamb.bsky.social and @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social on actions councils are taking to restore children's freedom, as well as 'big picture' stuff from us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Let’s seize this moment for children’s outdoor play!
FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm
Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm
Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Restoring children's freedom to play out: let's seize the moment
Society is waking up to children's right and need to play out; councils and orgs around the UK are taking action, come and get inspired !
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Let’s seize this moment for children’s outdoor play!
FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm
Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm
Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
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Lots of posts with comments about the proposed two-hour screen limit/curfew for children and young people are popping up in my timeline, all saying the same thing:
Invest in places for C&YP to play and hang out in.
Invest in places for C&YP to play and hang out in.
July 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lots of posts with comments about the proposed two-hour screen limit/curfew for children and young people are popping up in my timeline, all saying the same thing:
Invest in places for C&YP to play and hang out in.
Invest in places for C&YP to play and hang out in.
This is wonderful news! Exactly what we've been wanting to happen. Enormous gratitude to @edwardlamb.bsky.social and Wirral Council for leading the way for other councils to follow!!
On Monday night at Wirral Council, we unanimously passed my @wirralgreenparty.bsky.social motion to support more welcoming, child-friendly neighbourhoods and a proper strategy to promote outdoor play. 🌱🚲🏃♀️
A small step — but a meaningful one. Here’s a short thread. 🧵👇
A small step — but a meaningful one. Here’s a short thread. 🧵👇
July 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is wonderful news! Exactly what we've been wanting to happen. Enormous gratitude to @edwardlamb.bsky.social and Wirral Council for leading the way for other councils to follow!!
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If you live in Dublin and would like to organise a Play Street for your street / area for World Car Free Day, you can read all about the UK experience of how to do it informally here via @playingout.bsky.social: playingout.net/play-streets...
#d7playstreets
#d7playstreets
July 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
If you live in Dublin and would like to organise a Play Street for your street / area for World Car Free Day, you can read all about the UK experience of how to do it informally here via @playingout.bsky.social: playingout.net/play-streets...
#d7playstreets
#d7playstreets
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Children have as much right to their streets as drivers. There is no legal basis for them being shoed off streets. And I have no doubt that cars - moving and parked - cause a nuisance for children.
This is extraordinarily depressing from Manchester City Council.
@playingout.bsky.social
This is extraordinarily depressing from Manchester City Council.
@playingout.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Children have as much right to their streets as drivers. There is no legal basis for them being shoed off streets. And I have no doubt that cars - moving and parked - cause a nuisance for children.
This is extraordinarily depressing from Manchester City Council.
@playingout.bsky.social
This is extraordinarily depressing from Manchester City Council.
@playingout.bsky.social
Any organisation that exists to support children cannot remain silent in the face of this genocide. Our Government must end its complicity and take meaningful action against Israel *right now*. #StopKillingChildren
"We're still in a situation where a classroom full of children are dying every day...We need to see more tangible action from governments to end this" - Hratche Koundarjian, our Head of Communications and Campaigns, spoke to @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social outside Westminster yesterday.
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July 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Any organisation that exists to support children cannot remain silent in the face of this genocide. Our Government must end its complicity and take meaningful action against Israel *right now*. #StopKillingChildren
Last weekend in Bristol, children on bikes took over their city centre! They were seen and heard. They had a blast.
But the aim of #KidicalMass is also serious. This is not the everyday norm. Children across the UK need #SafeStreetsNow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtA...
But the aim of #KidicalMass is also serious. This is not the everyday norm. Children across the UK need #SafeStreetsNow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtA...
Bristol Kidical Mass 2025 (with EN subtitles)
YouTube video by Bristol Cycling
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June 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Last weekend in Bristol, children on bikes took over their city centre! They were seen and heard. They had a blast.
But the aim of #KidicalMass is also serious. This is not the everyday norm. Children across the UK need #SafeStreetsNow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtA...
But the aim of #KidicalMass is also serious. This is not the everyday norm. Children across the UK need #SafeStreetsNow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtA...
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Off to the launch of the Play Commission final report this morning - will be absorbing the report and its recommendations on the train, but pleased to see strong arguments for child-friendly neighbourhoods.
@playingout.bsky.social
@playingout.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Off to the launch of the Play Commission final report this morning - will be absorbing the report and its recommendations on the train, but pleased to see strong arguments for child-friendly neighbourhoods.
@playingout.bsky.social
@playingout.bsky.social
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Today is International Day of Play.
As Ingrid Skeels - @playingout.bsky.social - says below: "we have to make the outside world a place children can play in real life."
Instead of debating road "closures", we should be *opening* our streets so more children can play on the streets where they live.
As Ingrid Skeels - @playingout.bsky.social - says below: "we have to make the outside world a place children can play in real life."
Instead of debating road "closures", we should be *opening* our streets so more children can play on the streets where they live.
June 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Today is International Day of Play.
As Ingrid Skeels - @playingout.bsky.social - says below: "we have to make the outside world a place children can play in real life."
Instead of debating road "closures", we should be *opening* our streets so more children can play on the streets where they live.
As Ingrid Skeels - @playingout.bsky.social - says below: "we have to make the outside world a place children can play in real life."
Instead of debating road "closures", we should be *opening* our streets so more children can play on the streets where they live.
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I always saying opening a street for play is magical, often not spectacular, but the ordinary magic that Stuart Lester talks about. No wonder those who try it want more.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
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Residents of street where cars banned for kids to play say 'make it permanent'
The road, near a city primary school, was temporarily closed down to all forms of traffic
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June 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I always saying opening a street for play is magical, often not spectacular, but the ordinary magic that Stuart Lester talks about. No wonder those who try it want more.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
Ladies Mile is a totally unnecessary road cutting across Bristol’s biggest public greenspace - The Downs - making it unsafe for kids. It was closed to cars for the day yesterday and what a change! Let’s make this permanent. @edplowden.bsky.social @robbryher.bsky.social @bristol247.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ladies Mile is a totally unnecessary road cutting across Bristol’s biggest public greenspace - The Downs - making it unsafe for kids. It was closed to cars for the day yesterday and what a change! Let’s make this permanent. @edplowden.bsky.social @robbryher.bsky.social @bristol247.bsky.social
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On my way into work this morning I saw this, on a rare “home zone” in Bristol, where cars do not have priority.
Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social
Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
On my way into work this morning I saw this, on a rare “home zone” in Bristol, where cars do not have priority.
Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social
Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social
Bristol folk - join us for #KidicalMass 2025! A family-friendly city-centre protest ride calling for safer streets for children and everyone. Come on bikes, scooters, skateboards or roller-skates! Castle Park bandstand from 11am, Saturday 14th June. www.facebook.com/events/10929...
May 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Bristol folk - join us for #KidicalMass 2025! A family-friendly city-centre protest ride calling for safer streets for children and everyone. Come on bikes, scooters, skateboards or roller-skates! Castle Park bandstand from 11am, Saturday 14th June. www.facebook.com/events/10929...
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"...with the cost of inaction measured in children’s lives, politicians urgently need to wake up and act". @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
@playingout.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org #SUVAlliance
www.suv-alliance.org.uk/blog/surging...
@playingout.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org #SUVAlliance
www.suv-alliance.org.uk/blog/surging...
Surging SUV use driving road fatalities rise, new study finds — SUV Alliance
A study finds that the likelihood of a pedestrian or cyclist being fatally injured is 44% higher if they are hit by an SUV or light truck compared with smaller cars.
www.suv-alliance.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"...with the cost of inaction measured in children’s lives, politicians urgently need to wake up and act". @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social
@playingout.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org #SUVAlliance
www.suv-alliance.org.uk/blog/surging...
@playingout.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org #SUVAlliance
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“No-one buying a car would want to put children at greater risk”. Surely. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo... @olord.bsky.social #SUVAlliance
'Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians'
Sports utility vehicles account for more than half of new cars bought in UK
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April 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“No-one buying a car would want to put children at greater risk”. Surely. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo... @olord.bsky.social #SUVAlliance
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It’s not often you see MPs, one after another, standing up & calling for safe streets where children can 🚲🚶🏾🛴 🤸 without fear of being killed. Hats off to @ollyglover.bsky.social and all. #SafeStreetsNow @playingout.bsky.social parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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Westminster Hall
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April 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It’s not often you see MPs, one after another, standing up & calling for safe streets where children can 🚲🚶🏾🛴 🤸 without fear of being killed. Hats off to @ollyglover.bsky.social and all. #SafeStreetsNow @playingout.bsky.social parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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Doing some planning for @playingout.bsky.social's next Play Streets Forum, where the focus will be on the campaign against "No Ball Games" signs, as part of the wider campaign for children's doorstep play, so a reminder of the petition - please sign and share: chng.it/B6nJ7XVKvn
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Doing some planning for @playingout.bsky.social's next Play Streets Forum, where the focus will be on the campaign against "No Ball Games" signs, as part of the wider campaign for children's doorstep play, so a reminder of the petition - please sign and share: chng.it/B6nJ7XVKvn
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Why don’t kids get off their phones and play in the streets like we did?
Florida Sheriff hits child with his car in order to arrest him for riding his bike in the street
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April 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Why don’t kids get off their phones and play in the streets like we did?