Events
Where community
becomes connection.
Workshops, networking, talks, and free sessions — all designed for parents who are ready to move forward, professionally and personally.
Events
Workshops, networking, talks, and free sessions — all designed for parents who are ready to move forward, professionally and personally.
⭐ Featured event
A free online seminar about how parents and caregivers can support their children's emotional development while nurturing their own emotional intelligence. Perfect for the Back-to-School period of new starts and reconnection!
Delivered in partnership with qualified practitoners and therapists
Practical advice on making your family more emotionally aware
Building a better future — for your family and your community
Free to attend — open to all parents and families
Online
All events
A free online seminar about how parents and caregivers can support their children's emotional development while nurturing their own emotional intelligence.
Work+Play is happy to invite all families to join us for a fabulous party! Come along from 2pm for pumpkin carving, face painting, games and plenty of spooky silliness. Costumes are very welcome, whether you’re going full monster or just adding a pair of cat ears.
A relaxed, child-friendly networking session for parents and carers who want to meet new people, make professional connections and share ideas in a space designed around real family life. Come along to chat, connect and discover what others in the local community are working on. Children are very welcome, and a qualified early years practitioner will be there to help keep little ones engaged while grown-ups have space to talk and network.
An information session with the University of Edinburgh team for local community organisations interested in learning more about Community Grants, funding opportunities and working with the University.
Work+Play joins once again the vibrant Inch House Summer Fair, bringing creativity and fun to this much-loved community event. This year, children under 5 can play in our new, purpose-built garden! There will also be music, food, a bouncy castle, local makers, and stalls filled with handcrafted goods.
A practical session delivered in partnership with Changeworks on making your home warmer, lowering energy bills, and building a better future for your children.
Our very first Work+Play child-friendly coworking pop-up event. Week-long sessions for parents and carers who want time to work, job hunt, study, or plan their next move — while their little ones are close by and cared for.
Work+Play Hub is proud to be part of this specialised, interactive event in Edinburgh showcasing best practices in Scottish early learning, highlighting the "Realising the Ambition: Being Me" guidance.
Work+Play Hub proudly sponsored a creative morning of discovery at a local Forest Kindergarten, where children aged 3–5 transformed the forest into their own open-air laboratory — magic potions, soap and germs, and so much more.
Work+Play joined the vibrant Inch House Summer Fair, bringing creativity and fun to this much-loved community event. Music, food, a bouncy castle for children, local makers, and stalls filled with handcrafted goods.
A free online seminar designed to support parents and carers as their children start nursery or school for the first time. Practical tools, reassurance, and expert voices for a big emotional milestone.
A free, supportive conversation designed especially for working parents — particularly those with young children — who are feeling the emotional weight of juggling family life, careers, and their own wellbeing. An inspiring panel discussion.
Hire the space
Our space at Inch House is available to hire for community events, workshops, team days, and professional gatherings. Child-friendly, fully accessible, free parking.
We particularly welcome organisations and individuals whose work aligns with our mission — supporting parents, early years, gender equality, and community.
Enquire about hiring the spaceSuitable for groups of up to 20. Configurable for talks, workshops, roundtables, or informal gatherings.
Crèche can be made available alongside your event for attendees who need childcare.
Inch Park has free parking — no barrier to attendance for your guests.
Tea, coffee, and catering options available on request.