Pop Up Play Village - Reading

29/01/2025

Happy Chinese New Year! In our house it’s always been a great excuse to order a takeaway or get the wok out… how do you celebrate?

We have some awesome activity ideas that I’ve created over on our resource hub that are FREE to download. Take a look here:
https://popupplayvillage.co.uk/chinese-new-year-resources/
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28/01/2025

Happy Birthday Pop Up Play Village UK we have loved being part of the journey and seeing team Pop Up take over the UK and grow from strength to strength! We can’t wait to celebrate our own birthday next month too!

We are 8 years old today! Happy Birthday to Pop Up Play Village HQ! 🎉

To celebrate and to say a great big thank you to each and every one of you that has supported our Pop Up Play Village journey, we are running a competition!

We are giving away 8 prizes to one lucky winner to celebrate 8 years of Pop Up Play Village! These are the prizes:

- Branded cafe apron
- Branded colouring book
- Branded hot cup
- Branded Outdoor Explorers bag
- Wow Toys Piper the Plane
- Tomy Mood Bears Large Hope Bear
- Le Toy Van Takeaway smoothie trio
- Tenderleaf rocket construction toy

To be in with a chance to win, you need to like and comment on this post with the words Happy Birthday!

This competition will run until next Sunday 2nd at 7pm! Then we will pick one winner at random from the competition entries on both our Facebook and Instagram Pop Up Play Village UK pages! If you enter, we wish you the best of luck!

This competition is in no way associated with Facebook or Instagram.

25/01/2025

We loved wishing the lovely Coralie a very happy 4th birthday today and we set the village up with
🧱 Construction Site
🚂 Tracks and Trains
🍎 Supermarket
🏕️ Campsite
👑 Knights and Princesses
☕️ Hot Drinks service for adults
Her amazing Mum made the cake herself and takes orders so do check her page out (once I’ve got a link to tag her!)

18/01/2025

What does Pop Up Play Village look like? ⬇️

Whichever way you look at it… it looks like fun, your little villagers absorbed in a world created by their imagination… come and see for yourself Sundays at The Wellington Arms in Stratfield Turgis when you join us for a roast or by booking us as entertainment for your next event!
Today we are setting up a selection of role play areas and an art table for a 60th birthday gathering of family and friends for our very own Frank! Happy big birthday to you Frank… we will be back to play this Sunday so book your table direct with The Wellington Arms… select Family Sundays in the Waterloo Suite and join us! 🥳

14/01/2025

📣Attention schools and early years settings 📣

We have got a few slots of availability if any settings would like to book us in to celebrate Careers week. We have a whole host of role play areas to choose from and it really would make a great way to learn about jobs that people do and careers with your little villagers! 👮 👩‍⚕️ 🚑 ☕️ 🧱 🚒 ✂️

Message us to chat some more or email us [email protected]

08/01/2025

What makes us special?
💫 Choice of play areas to make up your village with lots of options so no two villages are the same
💫 Large open plan spaces so you can see your child no matter where they play
💫 Educational purposeful play spaces designed by teachers with learning at their heart
💫 Suited to a wide range of ages and perfect for sibling play
💫 Highly engaging child led play experiences so they control their play
💫 Imaginative play allowing creativity, developing skills and still bucket loads of fun
💫 Family run, award winning small business
💫 Local, trusted and recommended by suppliers and customers alike
💫 Curriculum planning including STEM planning to use in schools and early years settings
💫 High quality play spaces and equipment because quality matters, cleaned regularly and eco friendly
💫 Eco party box hired with catering
And lots more… but above all we know that our village is special because of the time and effort we put into making it that way. Come and try for yourself! Drop us an email and see how we can help your event to be extra special too! Erica, Frank and the team xx

08/01/2025

Come and join us this Sunday for more role play fun!

06/01/2025

Can you help? I’m often asked by customers for who we can recommend for decorations, face painting, balloons and cake makers and I have a few that I am familiar with and often pass on but I know there are always lots of new people out there so it’s time to update my supplier list! So hit me with all those amazing local businesses that I can recommend to parents looking for party extras!
I already have a comprehensive list of venues so I’m pretty sure I know those really well but if you know a hidden gem do let me know too!
Party favours is something we already provide ourselves but I’m not ruling out hearing about any potential collaborations we could do with those so let me know. Tag a small business who might be keen to work with us… go go go!!

05/01/2025

Thank you so much Jo for this awesome feedback I spotted yesterday. We are always so grateful when someone takes the time to leave us a review as it does make such a difference to tell other customers all about the service you received. We are setting up for our first Christening of the year tomorrow as well as Family Sunday but will be back in the office next week dealing with lots of enquiries for 2025 parties… let’s make this an awesome year of fun!

04/01/2025

Check this out from our franchisor Becky 🥰

03/01/2025

Fancy lunch out on Sunday? Phone a friend and bring the kids for lunch and a catch up! This week we are bringing the construction site, hairdressers, baby nursery, small world play and duplo building fun to The Wellington Arms for Family Sunday in the Waterloo Suite! Come and join us for the first one of 2025 and let’s start as we mean to continue!

02/01/2025

New Year gathering of friends or family? Just a family lunch with the kids? Book a spot to join us for Family Sundays at the Waterloo Suite in the Wellington Arms! Thanks to wellingtonarmshants Our supervised play areas are there to enable you to sit back and relax with your lunch while the kids are entertained!
THIS Sunday sees the start of our 2025 sessions which are available to book through January and February at the moment… see you there!

01/01/2025

May 2025 be the year that blesses you and we look forward to welcoming you into the village this year to play! See you soon.

31/12/2024

We hope that 2024 treated you kindly… for us it’s been a tricky year with Frank’s surgery and recovery and having to juggle our roles around to aid his recovery but now we are in the groove and getting back on our feet we have big plans for 2025 so just watch this space! Have a great evening if you are celebrating… our plans involve a quiet night in after a few days away. See you in 2025! Erica and Frank x

31/12/2024

Did you know that we offer regular or one off play sessions for schools, nurseries, pre-schools and toddler groups? We can come and deliver sessions which can be tied into your topic or area of learning and have planning in place that suits all areas of learning from the EYFS and KS1 curriculum and that can also tie into the PSHE curriculum for KS2! We can run sessions to suit you which could be fortnightly, monthly, termly or just a one off visit to form a treat for the end of term! Our end of term dates do get booked up early for school treats so we recommend securing summer dates in the spring to make sure we can fit you in. If you know a school that would benefit from our sessions be sure to tag them in the comments.

30/12/2024

As we head into a new year I know many families will start to think ahead to parties for those spring babies… I know I was always the same for Megan when she was little! Well, here is where we can help! We aim to make our parties hassle free and will do as much or as little as you wish to help with that!

🥳 FREE Invitations
🥳 Venue support to find the perfect space to host your party
🥳 FREE photos to capture the memories
🥳 Up to 30 children at no extra cost
🥳 Choice of play areas to build and make up your bespoke village
🥳 Over 21 different play areas to choose from
🥳 Indoor or outdoor parties (summer garden parties are a favourite of ours!)
🥳 Option to include catering
🥳 Option to include teas and coffees for your guests
🥳 Use of our Eco Party Box to save party waste and help our environment
🥳 Options to add party bags, crafts, garden games, dressing up rail or an area for pre-walkers to play too!
🥳 early booking discount of 10% for parties booked more than 3 months in advance
🥳 20% discount for weekday parties termtime!
You name it and we have thought of it and can help to make it happen! We have lots of awesome recommended suppliers we work with and our parties are award winning for a reason!

Drop us an email and let’s chat about how we can help!

29/12/2024

Let’s take a closer look at another of our play areas today and this one is chosen less often for parties nd yet when it is… it’s super popular and has been a huge hit over our Christmas season with posting letters to the North Pole for Santa! Our Post Office includes lots of parcels and letters and two post boxes for all the post to be delivered in as well as sorting trays, stamps and post bags there are lots of opportunities for the villagers to post all sorts of goodies! Let’s face it toddlers love to post all sorts of bits into all sorts of places. When my eldest was little it was pencils into the video player and crackers into the dvd player… oh the joys! ✉️💌📬📮

29/12/2024

Anyone else struggle to know what day of the week it actually is at this time of year? I’m sure I can’t be the only one lost somewhere in a land of leftovers, chocolates and get togethers with people?! Apparently today is Sunday…incase you needed to know! 👋🏻🥂🍬