Following the success of last year's programme, PlayFair 2012 will again host a series of free seminars and briefings designed to bring you right up to speed with the latest in best practice, design and selection.
Put together by the API, the seminars are a great way of expanding your knowledge of what works best - and there's plenty of opportunity for questioning the experts!
Tuesday 19th June
11.00am
Introduction & Welcome
11.15am - 11.45am
What is the Landfill Communities Fund and how does it
work?
Finding funding, key funding facts, "Object D" - public amenities,
project examples, and useful information.
Speaker: Susan Allred - Senior Registrar, ENTRUST (Landfill
Communities Fund)
Sue has worked at ENTRUST
for two and half years and heads up the Registrations Team. The
Team enrols new Environmental Bodies, ensuring that they meet the
requirements set out in the Regulations. The main focus of their
work is on all aspects of project registration, which includes
advising on the eligibility of projects and obtaining sufficient
information to be satisfied that a project is compliant with the
Regulations. Sue was also instrumental in helping to set up the new
ENTRUST On-Line (EOL), which should make the enrolment and
registration process easier for customers to use. Previously, Sue
worked at the Land Registry in the role of HR Advisor, where she
assisted in building a HR system for 26 offices in England and
Wales with 8500 users.
12.00 - 12:30pm
Bidding for Success
Gill Jolly explains the fine line between completing funding
applications and launching a successful bid for play space funding,
as well as providing the audience with useful pointers, tips and
advice.
Speaker: Gill Jolly - Director, Achieve Consultants
Gill Jolly is a Director
of Achieve Consultants Ltd, a fundraising and management
consultancy, working with charities, not-for profits and statutory
organisations across the UK and beyond. She has been involved in
professional fundraising since 1984 as a fundraiser, manager,
director and trainer of fundraisers and support teams. She left a
senior role with one of the top 10 income generation charities
early in 2000 to move into consultancy. She has a great wealth of
experience in funding applications and one of her biggest successes
in recent times was a £1.8M grant! She is a regular speaker at
national and regional conferences on a range of fundraising and
related topics.
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13.30 - 14:00pm
Play On! Creating Playgrounds on a Budget
Spacehive's innovative new funding platform allows communities to
gather online donations for playgrounds through their own project
micro-site, as well as an exclusive equipment discount from
participating API members.
Speaker: Chris Campbell - Spacehive
End of day one
Wednesday 20th June
11.00am
Introduction & Welcome
11.15 - 11:45am
Games4Life, Legacy and Beyond…
A presentation on the latest initiatives from the Change4Life
project, including sporting activity for children, both in and out
of school, getting children engaged with active play and how the
London 2012 Olympic legacy might contribute towards healthier
generations.
Speaker: Malcolm Fawcett - Department of Health, Change4Life
Partnerships Team.
12.00 - 12:30pm
Active Play for All Ages
Len will present the results of three studies to identify what
environments will stimulate more physically active play and how to
encourage more energetic play. He will explore how physically
active play has a profound influence on brain development,
particularly amongst early-years children.
Speaker: Dr. Len Almond FRSA - BHF National Centre -
Physical Activity and Health
Dr. Len Almond has been at
Loughborough since 1979 and set up the BHF National Centre to
translate research into practice to enable practitioners to develop
informed and intelligent practice. To achieve this, the National
Centre has developed high quality resources and training programmes
for all ages throughout the life-course and all settings to promote
purposeful physical activity to improve health and wellbeing.
He was a member of the Technical Committee that reviewed the
evidence for the Chief Medical's Officer's report Start Active Stay
Active.
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