woodland play patch
Durham
Welcome to Woodland Play Patch, Fencehouses, Durham. A carefully planned indoor
play space designed with open ended, wooden toys and resources to offer a
calming environment and alternative to soft play. Suitable from birth to
pre-school, we have chosen toys specifically to help in all areas of your Childs
development. Our play space is the perfect fun day out in Durham and the North
East. The team at Woodland Play Patch look forward to meeting you all at our
creative play space! What we are about Owned and ran by Craig and Sophie
Williams, parents to their son Avery and Ivy-Isabella, Woodland Play Patch was
designed to offer a welcoming and calming play space to all parents, carers,
babies and toddlers within County Durham and across the North East of England.
After giving birth to Avery, Sophie felt limited with places that she could take
Avery to, that had a focus specifically on babies and younger toddlers. Most
places that were available were targeted towards older toddlers with a small
baby pen and were so large and busy that often anxiety of taking Avery out meant
that she often stayed at home. After attending a local toddlers group in Durham,
where she met like minded mums, Sophie realised the importance of building a
strong mum friendship circle and over the years from Avery being born to opening
Woodland Play Patch, has created some strong mum friendships that she knows she
has for life. After being "that mum" herself, Sophie and Craig wanted to create
a space where mothers, fathers and carers can come with new born babies and
toddlers, without the chaos of soft play. Somewhere intimate, where over time,
customers will always see a familiar face and to encourage mums to sit together,
talk and socialise. Somewhere, that allows the children to grow and develop
where they can come as babies and enjoy until they start school. Five years on,
Sophie is now lucky enough to benefit from Woodland Play Patch herself. After
giving birth to their second child, daughter Ivy during the Pandemic, Sophie now
has a strong community of mams, who she has met from Woodlands New Mam Socials.
Although Woodland Play Patch was interrupted during the pandemic, we have
thoroughly enjoyed getting to know our customers over the last three years and
seeing how the little ones use their imaginations with our toys. We have a
strong, loyal customer base of families who enjoy talking to other families, who
there is always a friendly face when you visit. So if you have not been before
we look forward to welcoming you to WOODLAND PLAY PATCH very soon. For more
information on our events and classes held in our toddler friendly play area,
please get in touch
