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In May we received a lovely letter from Keith McGrath, the Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, thanking us for our hard work throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Thank you to Keith and LBHF for acknowledging our efforts - we'll keep doing what we do best: making play possible for children and young people and supporting families!

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Click here or on the thank you image to view Keith's letter!

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We would like to say a huge thank you to United in Hammersmith and Fulham for awarding our organisation £1,000 to help cover the costs of purchasing PPE for the Lillis Project.

Full statement available here - United funding thank you statement 

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If you're a qualified play-worker and you would be interested in joining our team, we want to hear from you! We're recruiting for sessional play-workers to join our play team at White City adventure playground in West London.

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As one of London's oldest adventure playgrounds, White City is a fantastic space to work in. Get in touch via info@playassociationhf.org.uk to register your interest and for more information about working for our charity.

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We are pleased to be on the lookout for new trustees. While we are open to all applications, we are specifically looking for applicants with two or more years experience in HR and or Finance. If you are passionate about improving play opportunities for children and young people, are excited by the prospect of a challenge, and feel you could add value to our board, please email: support@playassociationhf.org.uk to register your interest.

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On Friday 28th June volunteers from Shell came to help with the overgrown grass and shrubs at White city adventure playground, to get it ready for the summer holidays.

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A big thank you to all of them, thank you to the community cafe guys for providing refreshments, Powerday for the skips, staff and Dean (builder).

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Wow - what an amazing day at our White City play project community volunteering event!

Thank you so much to everyone who donated resources, or supported the event in any way. We can't wait to see the kids faces when they see the improvements to the site.

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A very special thank you to the volunteers and Chandlers Building Supplies for the materials for our community volunteering day.

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This coming  Saturday 18th May, Play Association will be at Sainsburys' Fulham Wharf (Townmead Rd) doing a fundraising event,

Our charity ambassador and crowd favorite Jack Foley @singerjackfoley will be appearing and singing between 10am - 2pm.

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Hope to see you there.

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We took to Sainsbury's Fulham Wharf with collection tins, buckets and @singerjackfoley in tow

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our team armed with collection tins managed to help raise £403 with a little help from a dancing Reindeer

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Video of the dancing Reindeer

https://www.facebook.com/playforall.hf/videos/264

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Video of @singerjackfoley Singing

https://www.facebook.com/playforall.hf/videos/218

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We updated our display at Sainsbury’s Fulham Wharf, all ready for our charity collection 🎄⛄️😁 @singerjackfoley will be serenading us too.. What better way to start your Christmas shopping eh?

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Big thank you to some of our amazing staff team, who on Sat 24th November took part ina pub crawl in fancy dress to raise money for the charity.

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The team raised £350 in the name of PAHF and the kids we work with, all while raising some awareness of what we do and having fun. Well done guys!

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We would like to thank everyone who came out to see John Shorts cut off his hair, Special thanks to John with his efforts we raised £700 for the charity.

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For those of you who haven't watched the video heres the link:

https://www.facebook.com/playforall.hf/videos

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John Shorts a Fulham man with a child with special needs has volunteered to shave his hair off at a fundraising event for us, This will be on Saturday 10th November from 6:30 - late at Bedford Arms PH Dawes RD Fulham.

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If you would like to Sponser him please visit our JustGiving Page when it goes live next week.

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On the 30th of September, a number of staff and supporters of our chartiy took part in the tough mudder half challenge, to raise funds and awareness of the vital work we do. To see what we do go to our Projects page.

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If you would like to make a donation, you can still do so by visiting our JustGiving page

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/play-association-eventstoughmudder

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PAHF are in partnership with Randolph Beresford Early years centre and we are supporting them in the running of White City adventure playground, situated in the heart of White City. This multifunctional play-space is one of London’s oldest adventure playgrounds, offering a brilliant link of connected wooden structures, a water slide, a range of sports activities, arts and crafts sessions, multiple tree-houses, building opportunities; all provided by a team of dedicated professional play-workers.

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Afterschool provision picking up from local primary schools Monday - Friday, 3-6pm £8 per child per session.

Open access 4.30 - 6.30pm Monday - Friday £1 per child per session.

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Play Association over the summer has been working with Wormholt Primary School, to offer an extended day service. As this is a new service we will be registering with Ofsted and therefore will initially run from the end of the school day until 5pm, this will extend to 6pm once the registration has been completed. The service will start on Monday 24th September with taster sessions on 17th and 19th September from 3pm-4pm. This will give Wormholt parents an opportunity to meet the staff and complete the registration process.

The service will be available to pupils from reception through to year 6 with a daily limit of 30 pupils. Details of the cost are:

• £5 Annual Play Association membership, this would entitle you to access the full daily rate of - £7.50 per child per session, concessions £5.50 per child

• A family rate of £22.50 per session for up to four children. (Annual membership would also entitle children to access special Play Association events for free, this would include possible trips off site.)

• Non-Play Association members - full daily rate £9.50 per child per session, concessions £7.50 per child per session.

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The young people of one of our projects the Antony Lillis project for complex needs are the first to have their work displayed on the community board.

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We are Sainsburys’ Fulham Wharf's charity of the year 2018, officially launched today

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Tui Na is Traditional Chinese Accupressure Massage, To book a session or for more information Contact Kim on 07491662692  or via kbrosman48@gmail.com. They donate to the charity.

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Cancelled Due to unforeseen circumstances.

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We are hosting a charity pool competition at our Hammersmith office on Monday 4th June 2018 starting at 7.30pm,

the competition is open to teams of 3 people, you need to register your team with Steve Boeje on 07828123300.

Entry £15 a team and food and drink available for a charitable donation.

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event this Sunday will no longer be taking place.

This May 27th our 5th BIG 12 challenge will start: A Bridge too far?

Walking over 15 of London’s bridges from Tower bridge to Hammersmith bridge.

These challenges are to help raise money for our charity and raise awareness of what we do both mainstream and special needs. People or teams wishing to participate need to visit the Justgiving page link below.

justgiving.com/fundraising/play-association

registration fees will be made as a donation through the page to the charity.

The Rules

• Registration fees: adults – £10, under 17’s - £5. Children under 10 go free.

• 10:30am start – Starting from Tower Bridge finishing at Hammersmith Bridge.

• Or you can start halfway, at Westminster Bridge.

• We will have a break - refreshments are available near Westminster Bridge.

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Today at the New Dawn Project we were fortunate enough to have some glorious sunshine and the children showed a keen interest in looking for bugs.

We spent sometime in the forest school garden looking at tadpoles, turning logs to search for a variety of bugs, we also watched some birds fly to and from their nests.

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As you know we have had to change the 4th BIG 12 event due to scheduling issues. we would like your help in the new activity we will be trying to go viral, by getting as many shares and reposts/retweets of a post we have made to facebook and twitter. These will be connected to 4 crowfunding appeals; we ask you to please look at each of the appeals and to donate to any and all if you can.

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Month 3 of our fundraising challenges complete the underground, we will be going underground on Sunday the 25th of March.

You can start at your local underground station and the rules are that you must complete the underground by visiting all 270 stations within a time limit of 6 hours to complete the challenge, and you must take a minimum of 5 photos at different stations along each line.

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If you would like to get involved in this event, and join us on the day, please email Hal: hal@playassociationhf.org.uk to secure your place! The registration fee for this challenge is £5, which will need to be made as a donation to the event’s Just Giving page. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/play-association-eventscompletetheunderground

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Our very own PHC (Public health campaign) "Fighting Fit February". Children and young people have given up alot these days such as: Open and Safe Play areas, fun play provisions and community safety. now they are at risk of many dangers like boredom, gangs, being unsafe in the community and becoming unhealthy.

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To help combat this we ask that you too, give up something for February whether it be something small like Fast food, Chocolate, Smoking or Alcohol and instead excerise or start a new hobby to become "Fighting Fit".

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If you would like to get involved all you need to do is let us know what you’re giving up for the month, why it’s important to you, and why you think play matters? You can download a sponsorship form, send in a photo, share us, or simply show your support by using the hashtags #playmatters and #givesomethingupforamonth #FightingFitFebruary

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Despite the bad weather, P.A.Bear's tour of London went ahead, on the 21st January visiting the selected Landmarks around London they raised £450.

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Huge thanks to Lesley and Razan at Sainsbury's Local Goldhawk Road and their customers for filling 4 collection tins and raising £146.00 for us, we look forward to collecting the next 4. If you own or know a business that would be happy to have one of our collection tins and support our work by fundraising for us, please get in touch!

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John Boeje brother of our CEO, whilst on his Christmas holiday from Australia decided he want to help with some fundraising. On 23rd December 2017, walked 20 miles from Spurs FC (old White Hart Lane Stadium) to Fulham FC (Craven Cottage).  John completed the walk, with family and friends supporting him along the way and arrived at Craven Cottage in time for the kick off against Barnsley.

"I am thrilled to be able to support a fantastic cause in London,  the Play Association do a marvellous job for the local community and in all the play they make it possible for children"

Up to now John has raised £1000 for us from both sides of the world!

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Sabrina is a lady who attended  our AGM, offered us a donation of books and flash cards.  She volunteers for an organisation   called School Aid, based in Buckinghamshire.  School Aid kindly donated 15 boxes of books, which has been circulated around our many projects. A big thank you to Sabrina for thinking of us.

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In January 2018, we’ll be kicking off our BIG 12 challenge starting with Teddy’s tour of London. In which our new friend Play Association Bear wants to travel to all over London visiting famous landmarks taking group photos.

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P.A. Bear can Bearly contain his excitement.

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He will star this tour on Sunday 21st of January from 10am - 4pm

Starting at Putney Bridge, Finishing at Wandsworth Park.

he also asks for a £5 donation to be made to the Play Association.

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For further details and rules of the challenge visit:

https://theplayassociationblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/the-play-association-big-12/

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We are now a CPD (Continuing Professional Development) training provider, we offer 4 Courses.

These courses are:

Introduction to Safeguarding

Advanced Safeguarding

Playwork

Bid writing for children's and youth projects

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To book a course or for more information contact: bernadette@playassociationhf.org.uk

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Huge thanks to Lesley and the team at Sainsbury's Local Goldhawk Road, for the food and presents for the Christamas party, at our Lillis project which works with complex needs children and young people.

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A successful day was had our New Dawn Inclusion Project at Cheam Common Junior Academy.  One of the main attractions was having 10 super cars present for people to have photos taken in them.   Play Association HF would like to thank,  the Members of the Surrey Car Meet especially Alex for organising the cars. Santa also made a visit!

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Santa has upgraded his sleigh, he now drives a Lamborghini.

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Come, check out Santa's new ride with the family at Cheam Common Junior Academy, Kingsmead Avenue, Worcester Park, KT4 8UH on the 16th December from 10:30am–14:30pm.

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We have lots of family fun activities including Santa's Grotto, an exhibition of sports cars (with photo opportunities), a Bouncy castle, Christmas arts & crafts, Refreshments and more...

Charitable donations are greatly appreciated  

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Our CEO's brother John Boeje who lives in Australia is coming over to visit family this Christmas, whilst here John thought he might help us with some fundraising.  He will be doing a 20 Mile walk Challenge, starting from Tottenham Hotspur FC, NEW White Hart Lane football stadium To Fulham FC Stevenage Road.  This will be happening on the 23rd December 2017, for any and all donations and to support him, go to www.justgiving.com/fundraising/john-boeje.

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The Play Association walking football team didn't do as well as hoped, but everyone had a great time.

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The next evening we sent a team to help at the Ravenscourt fireworks display and raised £1750 for our charity.

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Thanks to Jack for helping us raise £400.

Jack Foley will be singing his hits

Saturday 14th October

11am –1pm at Sainsbury’s Fulham Wharf

to help raise money for us as our new Ambassador

Check him out at

http://www.smoothclassics.co.uk

or on facebook @JackFoleySmoothClassics

and Twitter @jackfoleysinger

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A day out where, we were promoting our new stay and play project in Cheam

The 'New Dawn Project'.

Postponed due to unforeseen circumstances

Awaiting new date in 2018

In September 2017 - we are joint hosting a music concert with AGE concern - Espom and Ewell at the Espom Playhouse.

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Come on down to our family funday at Cheam Common Junior School on Sunday 13th August 2017, for a great family day and also while you're there.

We would like you to meet our new pateron Mr. Perry Fenwick aka Billy Mitchell from Eastenders.

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On August 12th, Melanie our Operations Manager has finally come down from Orbit after abseiling 262 feet at the Olympic Park, Stratford to raise funds for this amazing organisation that she works for; Play Association Hammersmith & Fulham. Melanie is still raising money with this abseil so we don’t know how to thank her for this feat.

check out her abseil video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiqAX_10CN8&t

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Our annual trip sailing took place as normal but this year with a difference! We took children and young people on what is probably their first and for many their only sailing experience.

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But this year also took some children from the Grenfell tower disaster, along with a Sky news team who were doing a follow up article on families and what impact the disaster had on them, which was aired the following day.

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Come and find us at the face painting tent

Fundraising for our Holiday fun project in partnership with Tesco and their Bags of Helps scheme.

We invite you to come down and join us @ Bishops Park, SW6 for a family fun Start New At Golf (SNAG) day on Monday 14th August 2017 from 12 - 4pm.

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SNAG contains all the elements of golf but in a modified form great to try and get adults and children to test out the sport, if golf is not for you there will be arts and crafts, a bouncy castle, activities and games.

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If you would like to enter the competition or sponsor one of our six holes contact Rob on 07703535111.

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Fun for the whole family.

We are pleased to announce that Perry Fenwick known for his role on Eastenders as Billy Mitchell has offically become a patron of Play Association Hammersmith and Fulham.

On 21st July 2017 Melanie will be abseiling 262 feet from the Arcelormittal Orbit at the Olympic Park, Stratford to raise funds for this amazing organisation that she works for; Play Association Hammersmith & Fulham.

Hoping to raise at least £500 She has started a crowdfunding page on www.justgiving.com

GoPro footage will be added to PAHF’s website and social media pages and 100% of donations will go direct to the charity. Get donating for these amazing young people!

On the 11th February at Sainsburys' Fulham, tierless efforts from our team and an acquaintance lent his time and talent to help us raise an astounding £510 and with a genorous donation of £100 we reached a total of £610.

Jack's website www.smoothclassics.co.uk

December 2016 - a group of young people, staff and trustees endured cold weather and heavy buckets to raise £660 and trough an anonymous donator we received a further £340 which made our grand total raise to £1000.

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We plan to kick off this years funderaising efforts by returning to Sainsbury’s Fulham but with a difference,come along and see on Saturday 11th february 2017 in hopes of trying to match or exceed the donations made in December.

Took part in the community event in chessington again this yea  This year we did a tombola and raised £200.00

We got to know about this event through one of PAHF's trustee, who not only lives at Ewell but is one of the orgainsers.  Trifest is a local community event in Chessington and it is orgainsed by three residents associations and held in the park bang smack in the middel of them.

2015 was the first time we took part with a brick n brac stall and we raised £160.00

In 2014 fundraising went very well. We raised money with our collection boxes in local stores and

even held a collection day at Sainsbury’s in Fulham and Tube stations including Earls Court and Charing Cross.

In total we managed to raise £1978.27. If you know of any local shops, pubs or restaurants who may display one of

our boxes, please let us know.

During the move to and from Queensmills, we had to put some of our equipment and resources into storage with the Big Yellow Box Company in Fulham. While talking to the manager about what we do, he

mentioned that Big Yellow supports community events and organisations, and that they would be happy to support us in any way possible. As Christmas was approaching, we asked if someone from their team could come to site and play Santa at the children’s Christmas party.

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Nick was nominated by his manager and came to site to deliver presents to the children. Although he was very nervous and completely out of his comfort zone, he was more than happy to help and made a fantastic Santa.

We were approached via Facebook by a young man called Dominic Bruce, who wanted to the Tough

Mudder Challenge and wanted to raise some money for a charity in the process. We supported him through

this and he managed to raise £480!

In October we put on a Gala Evening. It was a magnificent buffet with wonderful entertainment; including one of our

playworkers who has performed on ‘The X Factor’. We also held an auction in which we were donated some high- priced items, including a signed Chelsea football and the mini cricket bat signed by Freddie Flintoff.

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A good time was had by all and the evening was a great success, raising £1787 for our organisation.

The Parson’s Green Club and its members held a Charity Race Night

and through the tote, donated £140 to our organisation!

One day Steve was talking to his barber, who happened to mention he wanted to do a Sky Dive for

charity. Steve asked if he would do it for our charity and he accepted. It was delayed for a few months

due to the weather but eventually, Fadi managed to do his sky dive, raising us £500!

Over the summer, the children went out on a few trips, one ofthese being Battersea Park Zoo.

A good time was had by all,especially by the children playing in the playground and sand pit.

We were approached by a scheme called ‘Hope Thru Horses’, designed for children with

Autism as a sensory tool. The venue was in Oxford so unfortunately only some of our children

that could cope with long journeys could go. Those that did enjoyed themselves, it was just a shame they couldn’t stay longer.

For the second year in a row, we were approached by a sailing club in West Sussex who continue to support

groups that work with children and young people with complex needs. This year they got to go out in

the boats, as the weather was not on their side last time. Those that were a little uneasy going out, came

back glowing with confidence. A good time was had by all.

In June, we hosted a quiz night. Our quiz masters Les & Eber kindly gave their services for free and

with the appearance of “Egghead” Kevin Ashman, the evening was great fun. The winning team:

‘We’re Not Google’. We raised £979 for our services.

In June, some of our playworkers hosted a Summer Fete on a Sunday at Queensmill School. Although we weren’t over run with visitors, we did get a mention in the local paper. Some our staff, trustees and

volunteers helped to do a table-top sale; face painting, children and adult’s tombola, food, drinks, community golf and games. We also hosted a car boot sale. Total money we raised on the day was £350.

Four men from Surrey approached us and said they were planning on cycling from Surrey to Paris in just

24 hours! They were raising money for Cancer Research UK and wanted to raise money for a

children’s charity. They completed the mission and raised £650 for us!

Freddie Flintoff came to the Parsons Green Club for a magazine photo shoot and we took it as an opportunity to exploit the situation. We asked him to sign a mini cricket bat we had purchased for our raffle. He happily agreed and even posed for a photo with Martha and Louise to prove it was the real deal.

Mike and Yvonne from Ewell held a table-top sale and sold

homemade jams and chutneys. They raised £100 and donated it all to us!