Playwork Team [sponsored by Unite the Union] [last year's recipient was Play Gloucestershire]

This award is about honouring a team of people who deliver face to face playwork in private, voluntary or local authority settings. e.g. the staff team of an After School Club, Adventure Playground, Play Rangers, Holiday Playscheme, Mobile Playworkers etc. How the team works together irrespective of barriers they might face. The team must be doing playwork, underpinned by the playwork principles. So this award is not for headquarter organisations or teams who support others who do the playwork practice.

We want to honour those who demonstrate the value of cooperation in the work place by willingly sharing tasks, responding positively to each other and providing support, showing respect for other team members in order to succeed in achieving their goal.

What the judges are looking for:

1. How does the team makes it a better playwork setting

2. What is it that this team does, that other teams don’t do, that creates better/more effective/more appropriate play spaces for children and young people?

3. How does the team resolves conflict

4. Give some examples of what the team do that makes them a team rather than a group of individuals.

5. How does the team promotes communication, trust, co-operation and respect for difference in the team

Judging Panel

Chris Martin

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED