Category: Play

Guidance, activities, creative ideas & resources for families during COVID-19 & Lockdown!

Guidance, activities and creative ideas for families during COVID-19

ReDiscover Leeds with our Family Friendly Trail this Winter

Leeds City Centre Management and Child Friendly Leeds are proud to present the ‘ReDiscover Leeds Family Trail’.  The trail highlights lots of unknown stories, hidden wonders and amazing pieces of art, all of which make Leeds city centre a great place for families to visit.  The ‘ReDiscover Leeds Family Trail’ shines a spotlight on treasures…
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Climate Change & Leeds Youth Voice

Leeds City Council voted to declare a climate emergency in March 2019 after listening to the voices of local young people and scientists from around the world. The council has set a target to become a carbon neutral city by 2030 and to halve our organisation’s emissions by 2025. At the Leeds Youth Voice Summit…
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Stay Active & Have Fun with these new resources by Active Leeds

In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to protect the most vulnerable, the Government has put in place the biggest public health measures during peacetime. As a result, Active Leeds has designed a resource pack to encourage children, young people and families (especially vulnerable families) living in the 1% deprived neighbourhoods to be…
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Celebrating Earth Day 2020 from home- a climate change toolkit for young people

Although we can’t venture into the outdoors to celebrate Earth Day, we can still appreciate and learn more about the world around us while staying at home. We know young people in Leeds are especially passionate about climate change as you have shown us through both the Leeds Youth Council and Leeds Youth Summit earlier…
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Baby Week Leeds 2019 – Back 2 – 9 November with over 100 events!

Baby Week is back for its fourth time this November with the theme ‘Making connections: Bonding, healthy brains and wellbeing for all’ and we have a fantastic calendar of events ready for you! Baby Week is now a national charity and in Leeds it aims to bring sectors and services together to promote the Best…
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Biggest children’s festival in Yorkshire – Join us at Child Friendly Leeds Live 2019

Join us for the biggest children’s festival in Yorkshire featuring Popular children’s TV presenters and performers on National Play Day 7th August. Tickets are now on sale for Child Friendly Leeds Live 2019, which will be headlined by CBeebies’ Mr. Bloom and His Band and former presenter Alex Winters returning as host. What’s happening? Performances…
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Welcome to Move and Learn!

When a member of Active Schools Leeds suggested we become ambassadors for Child Friendly Leeds, we jumped at the chance! Child Friendly Leeds’ aim, ‘We’re working to bring everyone together to make Leeds a child friendly city’ has to be applauded. Their resolve to ‘put children and young people at the heart of a strong…
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Child Friendly Leeds Sundays | A child’s idea becomes the highlight this summer!

Child Friendly Leeds Sundays Every Sunday during the summer holidays is a Child Friendly Leeds Sunday. Rumani, one of our competition winners, dreamt of creating fabulous play spaces in the city centre, where she and her friends could hang out together and have fun. This exciting project which came out of a fantastic competition, which…
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What to do in Leeds this summer? From a huge children’s festival with Cbeebies stars to 100s of activities across the city – Welcome to #ChildFriendlyLeeds

Leeds city centre will come to life over the summer holidays with a jam packed calendar of activities for families starting at the end of July. Whether you want to relax on a deck chair at City Beach, enjoy live entertainment at Child Friendly Leeds Live, soak up the sunshine at one of our pop-up spaces…
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When can you start potty training? Interesting read by Little Bunny Bear

When can you start potty training?    A quick Google search will recommend potty training any time from 18 months. In the UK, most parents start potty training when their child is between 2 and 3 years of age. However, in other countries, over 50% of all babies complete potty training by 12 months. But…
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@snappleeds – a competition for young people, by young people on Instagram #SnappLeeds

@SnappLeeds was an idea by Cameron, Godwin, Joe, Samuel and Simon from Abbey Grange Academy, who wanted to create an enjoyable experience for young people ‘through an interactive picture taking activity in and around the city centre’. They want teenagers across the city to be given the chance to win vouchers by taking pictures around…
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