OUR PROGRAMMES
Empowering Communities Through Play
Through co-design, training, and events, we equip children, teachers, and community leaders with essential skills, confidence and a sense of agency. Schools and communities change their provision, and children build a larger sense of their possible futures.
Current Programmes
What we're running right now, including our newest launch.
Young Makers in the Docks
Launching soon: a free, hands-on STEAM, coding and making programme for Key Stage 2 pupils and their families, run with the University of East London and funded by Royal Docks Trust.
Coming SoonThe Power of Play
Our systemic-change community programme in Tower Hamlets with The LEGO Group, Save the Children and Young V&A — spanning caregiver and educator training, live broadcasts and hands-on play days.
Read MoreiOi in the Classroom
Ready-to-use, imagination-led STEAM activities that help teachers bring arts, science and digital exploration into everyday lessons.
ExploreiOi in Your Home
Free, playful STEAM activities using everyday materials, designed for families to build, experiment and discover together at home.
ExploreMy Big Idea
A full day of hands-on workshops in libraries, faith centres and schools, turning venues into community hubs for creativity and problem-solving.
Read MorePlaying for a Fairer Future
Backed by National Lottery players, this initiative aims to reach 50,000 children and caregivers across five UK regions to design their own futures through play.
Read MorePast Programmes
Work we're proud of that has now concluded — kept here for reference.
iOi STEAM
Interactive STEAM workshops for 5–11 year olds that reached over 30,000 children across 200+ UK schools, blending science, tech, engineering, arts and maths with cross-curricular learning.
View ArchiveBBC micro:bit
Delivered with the BBC: live teacher-training webinars that helped students code micro:bits to collect and explore data, building computational thinking skills.
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