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Enabling Inclusive Play

All children, regardless of ability, disability, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, race or creed, have the right to play and the right to an enabling play environment.

Eden works closely with a diverse range of people, listening, collaborating and co-designing projects and structures that serve the needs, rather than the perceived needs of communities. This way, we can all create enabling environments that are truly inclusive for all.

So who do we work with? Simple answer: everyone! But occasionally we all have to make special effort to ensure groups that are marginalised are involved and included, so we work with disabled children, children and young people in care, children at risk of exclusion from mainstream services, young carers, traveller and gypsy children, children living in poverty, children of minority ethnic groups, young offenders... to name a few. We don’t claim to understand or even empathise with everyone’s situation, and we certainly don’t treat everyone equally, because we’re not all equal. We recognise clearly that people are disabled by social attitudes as well as physical impairments, so we listen, and accommodate to our best abilities to include everyone.

Activities we have hosted include supporting a traveller and gypsy children campaign for a play area on their site, contributing design ideas for the outdoor space of a children’s respite centre, co-designing a display and workshop for a conference with children in care and designing a whole range of play structures and playful routes for disabled children and young people at Eden. We have more recently collaborated with Barnardos to deliver Muddy Shorts, a project funded by Cornwall Council under the Aiming High scheme to enable disabled children to access natural environments throughout Cornwall for adventurous play.