Playday is the national day for play, celebrated each year across the UK on the first Wednesday in August, co-ordinated by Playboard Northern Ireland, Play Scotland, Play England, and Play Wales.
We celebrate Playday each year to show why play is vital for children’s health, well-being and development. It also highlights how important it is that children enjoy their childhood.
Every year we come together and unite partners, volunteers and community groups to campaign for children’s right to play.
Previous Playday events have taken place in Victoria Park, Roath Park Recreational Ground, Llandaff Fields and more recently partnering with Child Friendly Cardiff on Cardiff Civic Centre, Summer of Fun event.
The next Playday celebration will take place on Wednesday 6 August 2025. Further details will be available on our Facebook page.
Playday 2024 was a success!
1,200 children and family members attended our 2024 playday event at Heath Park, Cardiff. It was a huge day of fun with:
- junk modelling,
- storytelling,
- sports,
- go-karts,
- mud kitchen,
- sensory play,
- arts and crafts,
- inflatable fun, and so much more!
What people said about the event:
- “Children and their grown-ups having opportunity to engage in a large community event doing activities they would t usually have chance to.” – Partner Organisation feedback
- “We only planned to stay an hour but stayed the whole time as my children didn’t want to leave!” – Parent
- “Everything! It was a fabulous event. Loads going on for the children, loads of freebies, everyone was so friendly and enthusiastic.”
- “I had a fun day. The t-shirts was the best thing but I did also like looking round and playing with everything” – Elsie aged 6
- “Children had so much fun and lots of activities to choose from.”
- “Children we took had a lovely time, fun games for them to play, lots of activities for them to do.”
- “Our 4 year old really enjoyed lots of activities, including the cardboard city, wooden ball roller, the kinetic sand play and the iceberg slide.” – Parent