Playing Out Service Users 2013/14

For the purpose of this report we have defined “service users” as people who have contacted us about playing out and also those who had active play street orders during the year. The main demographic that we record is the location of people we are working with.

New contacts made

During the financial year 2013/14, Playing Out recorded a total of 431 new contacts. The vast majority (98.6%) of these were from within the UK and 95% from .

England 408 Wales 6 Scotland 4 Australia 1 Canada 1 Chile 1 Italy 1 Portugal 1 Sweden 1 Unknown 7 TOTAL 431

Location within England

The majority of new contacts (60%) are from with multiple enquries from a number of other authorities.

Bristol 243 Cornwall 3 LB Hackney 40 Derby 3 Reading 13 Gloucestershire 3 Birmingham 6 LB Greenwich 3 Oxford 5 LB Haringey 3 Bath & North East Somerset 4 Leeds 3 Brighton & Hove 4 Milton Keynes 3 4 Sheffield 3

We also made one or two new contacts in the following areas:

Adur & Worthing, Bath and North East Somerset, Calderdale, Cambridge City, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire East, Chichester, Coventry, Doncaster, Durham, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, LB Brent, LB Croydon, LB Ealing, LB Hammersmith and Fulham, LB Hounslow, LB Islington, LB Kingston, LB Redbridge, LB Southwark, LB Waltham Forest, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Loughborough, Maidstone Borough Council, NE Lincolnshire, Newcastle Under Lyme, , North Somerset, Northampton, Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Redcar and Cleveland Council, S Gloucestershire, Slough, St Helens, Surrey and Warwickshire

Activity within Bristol

Where possible, Playing Out records the wards in which new contacts from within Bristol live so that we can ensure that our work reaches all parts of the city. For 2013/14 we recorded ward information for 65% of the new contacts.

These contacts were spread across 25 of the 35 wards in the city (no new contacts were recorded in , Clifton, Clifton East, , , , , , and ).

The spread of the new contacts is:

Ashley 22 Hillfields 2 Avonmonth 1 Horfield 7 Bedminster 8 Knowle 3 Bishopston 8 Lawrence Hill 2 East 1 2 3 Redland 8 Cabot 1 Southville 13 Cotham 2 2 Easton 47 6 Eastville 8 Westbury-on-Trym 3 1 1 2 Windmill Hill 1 4

Numbers of contacts made in and Easton are particularly high as this is the area in which we piloted having a specific worker in those areas.

We also record the type of contact, in this year 60% of the new contacts made in Bristol were from individual residents and the remainder from people getting in touch on behalf of an organisation (for example from a local community group, or a housing association or some other potential partner).

Active play streets

At the end of 2013/14, we had identified 67 active streets holding playing out sessions beyond Bristol. They were spread as follows:

Barking and Dagenham 1 Birmingham City Council 3 Ealing Council 1 Enfield Council 3 Hackney Council 17 Haringey Council 3 Hertfordshire County Council 1 Islington Council 1 Lambeth council 2 Leeds 1 Lewisham Council 1 Manchester City Council 1 Norfolk County Council 1 Northamptonshire County Council 1 North Somerset Council 1 Reading Borough Council 10 Sheffield City Council 1 Waltham Forest council 2 Adur & Worthing District Council 15 City of York Council 1

Play streets within Bristol

Within Bristol by the end of Mar 2014, a total of 64 streets had held Playing Out sessions. These were spread across 15 wards (Ashley, Bedminster, Bishopston, Brislington West, Clifton, Cotham, Easton, Eastville, Filwood, Henleaze, Horfield, Knowle, Redland, Southville, St George West, Westbury-on-Trym and Windmill Hill)

Streets that have had playing out sessions by ward

14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Ashley Clifton Easton Cotham Knowle Filwood Horield Redland Eastville Henleaze Southville Bishopston Bedminster Windmill Hill St George West Brislington West Westbury-on-Trym

This covers 10 of the 14 Neighbourhood Partnership areas:

• Ashley, Easton and Lawrence Hill • Bishopston, Cotham and Redland • Cabot, Clifton and Clifton East • Filwood, Knowle and Windmill Hill • Greater Bedminster Community Partnership • Greater Brislington Neighbourhood Partnership • Greater Area - Eastville, Hillfields and Frome Vale • Henleaze, Stoke Bishop and Westbury on Trym • Horfield and Lockleaze • St George East and West

Numbers of adults and children engaged in playing out session

Headcounts from playing out sessions in 32 streets show that 935 children were present. This gives an average of 29.2 children at each session. Given that a headcount is likely to be conservative (it is a snapshot rather than a record of all children who participated), we believe that it is reasonable to assume that an average of 30 children are engaged on each street. On this basis we estimate that at least 1650 children have directly benefitted.

When we apply the same method of calculating participation by adults, we have found that an average of 15 adults are engaged on each street. This give an estimate of at least 825 adults engaged across the city.