We just wanted to give you a quick update following the government’s unexpected, but welcome, announcement that soft play centres can re-open from Saturday 15 August subject to certain restrictions and conditions. Unfortunately this does not mean that Playmates is able to re-open straightaway.

The health, safety and welfare of all our employees, customers, visitors and the public at large has always been of the utmost importance to us and, like many playcentres, we have been working hard whilst we have been closed to prepare Playmates for re-opening in a Covid-19 safe and secure way. Unfortunately, however, the guidelines issued by the government for re-opening have introduced some new and unexpected requirements which will take us some time to implement.

We cannot therefore give you a re-opening date for Playmates at the moment, however please rest assured that we will do all we can to re-open as soon as possible and hope that you will bear with us during this time. Keeping everyone safe and doing all we can to help to keep the virus under control is our number one priority. So, whilst we have been looking forward to welcoming everyone back to Playmates, if we have to remain closed for a little while longer to achieve this, then this is what we must do.

We will let you know more as we make progress on-re-opening and we hope to see you all again in the near future. In the meantime we hope that you will all keep safe and well.