Annual Open Meeting 2025

Promotional image for The Playwork Foundation’s Annual Open Meeting 2025. The design features green and dark blue accents with diagonal lines and geometric shapes. A collage of photos shows people engaged in outdoor and indoor group activities, suggesting community and playwork engagement. Text reads: “The Playwork Foundation is changing! Join us at our annual open meeting to find out more, and to hear the latest from the play and playwork world in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.” Event details: 19th September 2025, 10–11:30am, online.

This year’s Annual Open Meeting will be our last. That’s because we’re changing…

As of 14th September 2025, The Playwork Foundation is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) based on the Association Model.

What does that mean?

And why have we done it?

One change is that, from next year (2026), we will now host an Annual General Meeting (AGM) – just like other charities – which will formally replace the Annual Open Meetings we’ve hosted in recent years.

We’ll walk through the rest of the changes tomorrow, and explore what this means for playworkers in the wild. But in the meantime, Trustees Simon Rix and Penny Wilson have created this infographic to help explain the essentials:

🗓 What else can you expect at tomorrow’s meeting?

  • Updates from the National Play Organisations
  • A look at what we’ve been doing
  • A preview of what’s coming next
  • And most importantly – how you can help shape the future of The Playwork Foundation and playwork across these islands

To join us, simply click the link or enter the meeting ID and code below from 10am BST tomorrow:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86551544050?pwd=DglsVhJ07eFtjXTFJ01bZ5isb0uCRh.1

Meeting ID: 865 5154 4050

Passcode: 901504

We hope to see you there!

You can read our new constitution and our current Standing Orders below:

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Author: Siôn

Chair of The Playwork Foundation Playworker at The Venture Integrated Children's Centre, Wrecsam, Cymru

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