Play Emporium

13/04/2025

Lots of items from Play Emporium. Very last chance to buy!

26/03/2025

Reduced price!

14/03/2025

Donations wanted! Also this is a useful list of what we sell too!

12/03/2025

For sale £390. Score counter not working but you can buy the part from SEGA. Set to free play as coin slot has been replaced with a start button. Push start to play.

07/03/2025

This is what the Play Emporium now looks like upstairs! It's a £1 clothes shop! Interesting how things pan out 🤔

25/02/2025

We have a huge load of kids toys and clothes for £1 each in what used to be Play Emporium 🥰

24/01/2025

If you're interested to see what we have been up to using Play Emporium to sort donations for the new Thrift Warehouse 👇👇👇

15/01/2025

**£1** Toys, kids books, kids clothes, soft toys, and fancy dress as donated to our not for profit secondhand CIC are all out for you to play with and if you want to keep them they are only £1 each to buy - including the lovely wooden tricycle and wooden pram! All money will go to our CIC. Available to Play Emporium customers only and not the public at this stage.
Our next venture is selling every day items in our warehouse for £1 each as a way to help people afford things like clothes, toys, craft items ect. I know myself that even on an average to ok income I feel like I'm counting pennies all the time yet I have so much stuff I never use that someone else could make use of. So far the donations have been incredible! I think this will be the best thing we've ever done!

10/01/2025

**This weekend** please note this is our second from last weekend open ever! And importantly we are ONLY open until 14:30, with last admission at 12:30 on both Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th
The craft shop is still open as per normal until 17:30
Saturday 18th will be the last day open with only 3 sessions available. These sessions will be higher capacity than normal and will have a party vibe with disco lights, hot dogs, balloons, party music and more! You can book online via our website for the closing party sessions
Open 10:30 until 17:30 Monday to Friday next week
If you are visiting from tomorrow onwards we are selling our fancy dress for £1 an item (aside from the jazzy coats which are actually my own!) We are also selling kids clothes, adults clothes, books, toys and home decor for £1 an item as part of our new Thrift Warehouse venture that will replace Play Emporium. If you are visiting please consider bringing some items to donate too! We are trying to create a central location to buy secondhand items at affordable prices covering lots of different categories!
Thank you everyone for your amazing support! We've survived into 2025! Here's to this year and creating our next, and hopefully final, offering 😁😁😁

06/01/2025

If you're visiting before we close on the 18th please consider bringing a donation for our new thrift warehouse with you!

27/12/2024

**Final tickets left** for our Family Friendly New Years Eve Disco!

We have two NYE parties for families. An earlier one for very little children from 4pm until 6pm with a fake countdown at the end. We will have clocks around the building with the 'pretend' time to keep the illusion that it is midnight. And a second disco for the whole family from 7pm until 10pm with a fake countdown at 8pm.
Hotdogs, snacks, hot drink and cold drinks available. Alcoholic slushies and a small bar for the adults. Fancy dress encouraged! Cost £7.50pp including booking fee. Disco and seating downstairs, games and more seating upstairs. Play Emporium is closing on January 18th to make way for a thrift warehouse opening in February 2025, so this will be a one off event!
4pm till 6pm party
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nye-family-friendly-disco-for-little-ones-tickets-1107947072519?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
7pm till 10pm party
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nye-family-friendly-disco-tickets-1107950542899?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

23/12/2024

Opening hours until we close forever on January 18th
December
Tuesday 24th Christmas Eve
10:30 am–12:30 pm
Christmas day and boxing day closed
Saturday 28th 10:30 am–5:30 pm
Sunday 29th 10:30 am–5:30 pm
Monday 30th 10:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday 31st NYE family friendly disco book via Eventbrite
January 2nd - January 17th 10:30 am - 5:30 pm. Apart from Saturday January 11th and Sunday January 12th when last admission is 12:30 with the last session finishing at 14:30 on both those days.
January 18th LAST DAY open all day disco 10:30 am till 4:30 pm
We'll be selling off food and drink at reduced prices to run the stock down so slushies are only £1 from now on!
See you soon! Thank you for being our customers and making our brief stint at running a play centre a brilliant experience!

14/12/2024

Don't forget The Secondhand Craft Shop is in the same building as us and fully stocked!

09/12/2024

07/12/2024

**PERMANENT CLOSURE** Play Emporium will permanently close on Saturday 18th January 2025. Due to unforeseen repair work that would cost ££££s we have no choice but to close as we cannot afford to continue. So December and the first two weeks of January is your LAST CHANCE ever to visit before everything is sold in January. To make the most of our last month we have created some additional exciting events you can get tickets to below!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-prop-factory-69413304523

We really need your help to launch our next project! We will be turning the downstairs into not for profit craft workshop cafe - not sure how exactly yet but we’ve got a month to figure it out! You can help us by:

✓Coming to Play Emporium and our events this December to help us fund the cafe
✓Let your friends who haven’t visited know it’s their last chance to come!
✓Donate items to The Secondhand Craft Shop so we can put our energy into growing it - quickly!
✓Tell your crafty friends about the craft shop
✓Let us know if you are interested in buying any of our equipment from Play Emporium
✓Send us your email address so we can message you updates of the cafe and craft workshops for all ages in 2025

06/12/2024

Christmas Kindness Creation Station FREE activity. All items are donated by The Secondhand Craft Shop so it's sustainable as well! Simply select a pre-made card or sheet of paper and an envelope...then...choose your writing and drawing equipment from the trees!! Write or draw some kind thoughts for others then take home your letter or post it in the gold postbox.
Activity is available to all Play Emporium customers or as a standalone activity by booking a free ticket via Eventbrite. Booking essential as we only allow 12 children per hour.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-christmas-kindness-creation-station-tickets-1105461528189