We're just a group of ordinary people who believe that children everywhere have the right to be just that – children. ​Our focus is children and childhood. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we have now funded
seven playgrounds and more are planned - see 'Current projects'.
Huge thanks to everyone who responded to our Big Give appeal which, with gift aid, raised about £6300.
An amazing result!

​We are all volunteers so have minimal expenses.
​We work closely with our American colleagues and founding organisation Playgrounds for Palestine and
​are honoured to be affiliated with Children of Peace, a non-partisan charity dedicated to building trust, friendship and reconciliation between Palestinian and Israeli children, and their communities.  
GAZA

Two playgrounds have been built in Gaza and a third is currently being planned in a joint project with Playgrounds for Palestine USA, and the University of Gaza.
WEST BANK
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Our first playground was at Kobar, Ramallah. We have recently completed a specialist playground at a school for the blind near Bethlehem. Another outdoor gym has been built for older students at a school near Beit Jala, and we are currently fundraising for a new forest playground at Jenin.
LEBANON

​Two playgrounds have been built for Palestinian children at refugee camps in Lebanon.

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​Central Park in New York (an area of 3.41 square km) has 21 playgrounds. Yet Gaza (365 square km), the third most populated area in the world with about 40% of the population under the age of 14, has only 30 in total. 
WHY PLAYGROUNDS?

​Playgrounds support creativity and learning, promote physical and mental health, bring families together, deter children from playing in unsafe areas, provide a place that is only about play, and, of course, friendships are fun!​

​Playgrounds for Palestine UK is a non-political charity, ​registered in the UK.
Registered charity number: 1164949

We are the UK chapter of Playgrounds for Palestine in the USA
https://playgroundsforpalestine.org/​
WHY PALESTINE?

"UNICEF estimates that at least 373,000 children (nearly half of Gaza’s children) need specialised psychosocial support. Gaza’s children have been condemned, through no fault of their own, to a future without hope."
Lord Warner, House of Lords. July 2016