About us

See Me Play is playscheme for neurodivergent and disabled children, young people, and their carers/families.

See Me Play was founded from lived experience. Our community needed accessible spaces where neurodivergent and disabled children and young people, and their families and carers, could feel safe, joyful, and authentic in play. We created See Me Play because neurodivergent and disabled children and young people have a right to spaces where they can play freely, feel understood, and be their authentic selves.

All play is welcome!

We believe that play is the best way, and in truth, the only way, to be truly free. In childhood, play is how we explore, connect, and make sense of this world. Yet for many neurodivergent children, the ways they play are misunderstood, redirected, or simply not given space; too often treated as something to change rather than something to celebrate. This is not OK!

At See Me Play, children and young people are reclaiming neurodivergent play. Play is freedom, it is a way of being, and a way to discover autonomy, self-agency, and self-expression. Play is deeply creative, but it isn’t only playing with toys or making art. It is all-encompassing, anything that tests ideas, explores possibilities, tests perimeters, hypothesizes, and helps make sense of the world. It might look like rhythm, repetition, sound, imagination, sharing ideas, or stillness; solo, parallel, or group play. Every way of playing is valid. Every child has a right to lead their own play in their own way.

Who we are

Our work combines specialist professional practice, and is founded by an art psychotherapist, with dynamic lived experience. Every member of our team brings personal understanding of neurodivergence, disability, and the complexities of access alongside their professional expertise. This allows us to create spaces that truly meet children and families where they are, holding responsive adaptability and care at the centre.

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Alice Davies

CEO/Creative Director

Naomi Clarke

Programme Coordinator and Fundraiser

Asha (Big Asha) Locke

Playworker

Mina Healy

Playworker

Blossom Welik

Playworker and Access Coordinator

Why and how we do what we do

We believe this is deep, crucial, change-making work. We advocate for creating freedom through play, rebuilding belonging, and nurturing real joy for neurodivergent and disabled children, young people, and their families, in a world that too often forgets to make space for us and too often treats our access as an afterthought.

Our values and approach