Join the Playful Green Planet Network

Become a Playful Green Planet steward

Joining the network is free and provides the following benefits to organisations:

• RSA endorsement: to recognise your initiatives’ alignment with Playful Green Planet principles.
• Playful Green Planet brand: including brand guidelines and templates.
• Platform: opportunities to spotlight stewards’ impact stories through RSA events and content.
• Managed green space (if needed): thanks to our partners like The Land Trust.
• Wiki: including learning and reflection prompts, links to nature-play resources, and fundraising ideas.
• Collective impact tools: triple-benefit evaluation metrics and tools, and quarterly reporting to evidence network impact.
• Community: connections with other Playful Green Planet stewards and champions via a dedicated community manager, community platform and monthly learning and networking events.
• Advisory committee: access to nature, play and policy expertise.

What we’re looking for in a Playful Green Planet steward

Stewards are community-based organisations from any sector who already provide services to children aged 0-11 as part of their local offer. For example, early years settings, children and community centres, libraries, schools, nature parks, children’s clubs and groups and so on. Stewards need to have:

• Safeguarding and governance structures that are already in place to work with children
• Access to green space or to one of the land sites with which the RSA has a partnership.
• Interest and/or experience in accessible, inclusive nature-based play
• Local connections and trust within their community
• Time and capacity to participate within three months

We particularly welcome stewards based in our strategic cities across the UK where children have poorer outcomes and lower access to nature: Belfast, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bradford, Cardiff, Dundee, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, London and Newport.

Become a Playful Green Planet champion

We are also inviting individuals within our Fellowship to become Playful Green Planet champions, supporting our Stewards by volunteering expertise in nature play.

Champions get access to the Playful Green Planet wiki and are invited to join the community platform and learning circles.