Play Gifts (lockdown 3) BATH press release
Lottery funded project comes to Bath to support families with babies enjoy creative sensory play at home.
Play Build Play CIC is a community interest company working with communities and families to explore the powerful role that material environments have in early years childhood development.
Set up by colleagues Eva Freeman and James Sale during the 2020/21 pandemic Play Build Play builds upon this dynamic duo’s extensive experience working in the creative, early years and built environment sectors, with prestigious arts organisations including the Barbican Centre and Hepworth Wakefield. Their newest project ‘Play Gifts’ sees groups of families in London and Bath receive an exclusive kit of sensory materials which becomes theirs to keep, and then are invited to join weekly digital stay and play sessions hosted by either James or Eva to meet others and discover sensory play together.
“Play Gifts is open to all families with babies aged 4 - 14months. We know from our own experience how valuable stay and play groups are for developing the skills and support networks for parenthood, and this has simply been wiped out during the pandemic. We hope that this project will bring some of the creativity and joy back to early parenthood as well as help parents and babies discover the amazing sensory world of materials and spaces everyone has around them.”
The project is free to access and the Bath group starts in late March. Get in touch directly with James at james@playbuildplay.org.uk for more information or fill out the online sign up form here is if you’d like to join. Click here for the project flyer.
Play Build Play CIC is a community interest company working with communities and families to explore the powerful role that material environments have in early years childhood development.
Set up by colleagues Eva Freeman and James Sale during the 2020/21 pandemic Play Build Play builds upon this dynamic duo’s extensive experience working in the creative, early years and built environment sectors, with prestigious arts organisations including the Barbican Centre and Hepworth Wakefield. Their newest project ‘Play Gifts’ sees groups of families in London and Bath receive an exclusive kit of sensory materials which becomes theirs to keep, and then are invited to join weekly digital stay and play sessions hosted by either James or Eva to meet others and discover sensory play together.
“Play Gifts is open to all families with babies aged 4 - 14months. We know from our own experience how valuable stay and play groups are for developing the skills and support networks for parenthood, and this has simply been wiped out during the pandemic. We hope that this project will bring some of the creativity and joy back to early parenthood as well as help parents and babies discover the amazing sensory world of materials and spaces everyone has around them.”
The project is free to access and the Bath group starts in late March. Get in touch directly with James at james@playbuildplay.org.uk for more information or fill out the online sign up form here is if you’d like to join. Click here for the project flyer.