Tri-County Play Association
Tri-County Play Association works with a variety of groups across the three counties inlcuding voluntary sector organisations, local authorities, play forums, children and young peoples partnerships and play providers. Our aims are to ensure that play is given representation at a strategic level, to identify local priorities for the development and delivery of play opportunities thoughout the region.
We work with GAVO in Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent and have a team in Merthyr Tydfil to provide open access outreach play sessions. For details of what is running in your local area please contact:
Rachel Phillips (Blaenau Gwent)
Lucy Hill (Caerphilly)
Nicola Thomas (Caerphilly)
Victoria Procter (Merthyr Tydfil)
As well as the projects above in Merthyr Tydfil we also have an Inclusive Play Project which works to include disabled children in play settings, for more information please contact Dianne James on 01685 353962. There is also a play development project which promotes and provides play in the borough - it also runs open access play sessions and holiday playschemes for further information on these please contact Sarah Williams on 01685 353960. (Simular projects are running in Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly please contact the head office for details on who to contact in these areas)
We have a training project which provides both bespoke and accredited training programmes in playwork across the three counties. For further information about playwork training please contact Teresa Price on 01685 353962.
