About Nüdel Kart

NÜDEL KART IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
By Playground Ideas (Non-profit)

www.playgroundideas.org

All profits from the sale of Nüdel Karts supports Playground Ideas.
Thousands of playgrounds built worldwide.
Millions of children impacted.

"In 2007, I was living in Thailand when a local NGO asked if I would help them build a playground. Throwing together a design and a crew of volunteers, we set to work, and before we had finished that first playground, the headmaster of a neighbouring school asked if we could help them do the same. And so it began. Requests began pouring in, and over the next two years a rag-tag gang of volunteers, artists, builders and makers built 40 playgrounds along the Thai-Burma border. I started posting photos of our work online, which led to my inbox being flooded with emails asking for playground building assistance from other parts of Thailand, and then from around the world. That’s when everything changed."

Marcus Veerman, Founder and CEO
Read the full story on Medium.com.

BUILD A PLAYGROUND ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

Playground Ideas is a non-profit organisation that supports anyone, anywhere to build a stimulating space for play using only local materials, tools, and skills.

Thousands of communities have used our DIY designs and how-to handbooks to create a beautiful space for play using only local materials, tools, and labour. And they get support every step of the way from our experienced non-profit team.

Playground Ideas has over a decade of experience creating resources and building a global community. Playground Ideas has supported play projects in over 4700 communities spanning 143 countries, helping more than 2.3 million children to access stimulating play worldwide.
(As at December 2020)

DO-IT-YOURSELF

We were founded with a goal to provide free designs, how-to handbooks, and online support to empower communities around the world to build beautiful spaces for their children to play using only resources they can easily find locally

DESIGN & SUPPORT

For larger projects, our team can be contracted for custom design and on-site support. We’ve provided designs, team training, and build facilitation for projects all over the world. If you have a budget over $5,000 and are building 1-1000 playgrounds let’s build something together.

GLOBAL PLAY ALLIANCE

Expanding global access to play requires a coalition of play advocates. The Global Play Alliance is focused on creating play opportunities in communities where these resources do not exist or are in short supply. We're on every continent, made up of builders, designers, parents and playworkers.

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Nüdel Kart is a social enterprise by Playground Ideas with the aim to drive changes in how both domestic and international education and aid partners support children.

All profits from the sale of Nüdel Karts supports Playground Ideas.

HOW NÜDEL KART WAS BORN
Loose parts playground cart

The Playground Ideas model has grown exponentially over the last decade and changed the lives of millions of children through grass roots interventions around the world. But research over the last 60 years has consistently and overwhelmingly shown the power of loose parts play being a key tool educators can use to build foundational STEM and 21st Century skills needed by children to thrive in our modern world.

Since 2018 we have dived headlong into developing the worlds best mobile loose parts play kart where every part is meticulously designed to maximise children's development throughout their early learning and primary years.

In 2020 during lockdown Nüdel Kart has taken the next step to realise its dreams with US distribution, play workers running events and funded international development projects in East Africa.

In 2.5 years, Nüdel Kart has gone from a scribble on an envelope to become a fully fledged, sustainable social enterprise supporting thousands of children to play and learn across the globe.