For nearly 50 years, Islington Play Association (IPA) has been working to improve children’s lives and life chances. Along with the Islington Council, the IPA recognises that play is not the same as adult leisure – play is vital for children’s health and well-being.
IPA believes that the ability of children to play is a litmus test for the quality of life for everyone.
Islington has a dozen adventure playgrounds and a strong indigenous voluntary sector working to help children and families. The IPA, for example, supports the work of over 70 voluntary groups and organisations that, in some way or other, help give children the opportunity to play, many of which run imaginative and exciting projects.