Children will be able to enjoy the novelty of having an open access programme in a place they feel is “their” space. We will be taking the play to them, not them coming to us. Currently services are fixed in community centres and some open air areas. These are not necessarily where children play. For the most part children play close to where they live. If they are lucky enough to live in proximity to a service they receive the service but most children in Newham do not. Estate playgrounds, open spaces that are not parks will be targeted. These are all areas that children do not play on as they are not safe as playgrounds as they are unstaffed. There will be a constant programme of consultation taking place over the entire five years of this project so that we will be meeting the needs and desires of the children, but we expect that the play will be wide ranging from group games, traditional street games using portable equipment. We do not want to second guess what activities the childen will want as we intend for the lead to come from them. Every effort will be made to include those children who are often marginalised within the community on the basis of ability, ethnicity, language, or social and economic deprivation. Information regarding activities and consultations will be put out in community languages and distributed where children from ethnic minority communities will have access to them. We will advertise the timetable and locations on a month by month basis in local extended school services and on notice boards in parks, housing estates, community centres and local super markets. The project will bring currently underused or unsafe play spaces into community use. We will operate for 4 hours per weekday evening for 15 weeks during term time when it is still light. We will operate for 37 week ends during term time and 5 days a week during 10 weeks of school closure. The porject will cost £249,900 over 5 years.