Play for Progress

Who we are

Play for Progress is a Croydon-based charity that supports unaccompanied young people seeking asylum and promotes community resilience through trauma-informed creative engagement in the arts and education.

We tap into the healing power of music, the arts, play, and creative therapies to build healthy and resilient relationships that support and amplify the voices of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum.

Play for Progress promotes a societal model that:

• Improves emotional health, awareness, and development

• Promotes community connection and expression

• Improves accessibility and integration

• Challenges societal views on people seeking refuge

Our culture and values

Play for Progress’s mission is to ensure that while seeking the right to refuge, young displaced people have

• the community support they need to survive

• the safe space they need to heal

• and the stability to thrive

We aim to provide young people who engage with us with the tools, resources, and people they need to develop the skills that will best help them to establish and deepen their foundation of wellbeing. We firmly believe that the arts, play, and creative therapies are best placed to accomplish this.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Play for Progress is an equal opportunities employer. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities, and those with lived experience of the refugee or asylum journey. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and heard.