Get Ready for Playcentre Open Week!
Playcentre Open Week (18–22 August 2025) is one of our biggest weeks of the year. It is a great opportunity to invite new whānau to join our village! We encourage your centre to promote your fun activities and plans within your local community.
Playcentre Open Week event page
To help grow your centre, we’ve created a fantastic suite of promotional resources to help you spread the word and attract new families:
Promotional tools available:
- Logos and images
- Social media graphics
- Editable and static posters/invites
- Eventfinda image and instructions
- Content ideas and key messages
- A full overview of Open Week 2025
- Plus, the Marketing & Communications Toolkit packed with ideas to promote Playcentre in your community!
A huge thank you to everyone helping to share the Playcentre story — your mahi makes all the difference!
National Advertising Campaign
We’re also excited to launch a national advertising campaign to boost brand awareness and enrolments.
Keep an eye out for:
- Digital billboards in shopping centres
- Paid social media and Google ads
- Print and digital media targeting parents, and MORE!
This campaign is designed to drive enquiries to arrange a visit – so please check your messages regularly and have a system ready for booking visits and following up with interested whānau.
Welcome to Playcentre Resources
We are delighted to support centres with a set of “Welcome to Playcentre” resources to help you warmly welcome new whānau.
Resources include:
- Videos
- Printed Booklet (also available as an e-book)
- Visitor Information Sheets
- Powerpoint Presentation
- Guidance Cards
- Information about joining Rōpū Māori.
Order your FREE booklets now from the Playcentre Shop! Centres can order as many copies as they need — you’ll only pay for freight.
Make sure you’ve got everything ready in time for Playcentre Open Week!
Editable Canva Templates
Our Canva templates — including some brand-new learning stories — are now open to edit by anyone with the link! This makes it easier than ever to personalise and create beautiful content for your centre.
To keep things running smoothly for everyone, here are a few friendly reminders when using the templates. Please:
- Duplicate the design first so you’re working on your own version — this keeps the original safe for others.
- Delete your version once you’re finished to keep the template space tidy.
- Keep the link within our Playcentre whānau so we can all enjoy and protect these shared resources.
If something goes awry and the original template gets changed — no worries! Just flick us a quick email at [email protected] and we’ll sort it out.
Contact Us
We’re here to help. Please reach out to us anytime at [email protected].