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Local families wanted to help create new play space at Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Come and take part in a free play session!

By Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

A child with curly hair peeks out from a large cardboard box, surrounded by other boxes in a bright, spacious room.
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Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is building a new free-to-access gallery, outdoor learning space, and new gardens on Amwell Street.
We want this to be a haven for local people as well as bringing biodiversity and green space to the area.

In 2024 families from The Parent House came up with some ideas for play and illustration at the new Centre. Now Play Build Play need your help to bring these ideas to life! We’d like your little play experts to show us how they want to play and what sparks their interest.


We’d like to invite you and your pre-school children to join us from 10.30am – 12.30pm on 17th November in the Angel Room at Lift, 45 White Lion St, N1 9PW. If you’re home educating older children you’re also welcome to join us.

Sign up here.

We are an inclusive organisation and we welcome ALL families. Please use the form to tell us whether you or your children have any additional or special needs, accessibility or dietary requirements.

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