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Peterborough Playbus

Peterborough's Playbus offers a fun and welcoming space for ethnic minority families to improve their English language skills.

News 1976 4 mins

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Overview

Not being able to speak the language a society uses can be a barrier to taking an active part in that society. In Peterborough, a multi-coloured converted double decker bus, The Playbus, provides a fun and welcoming space for grown-ups and their children, whose first language is not English, to improve their English language skills through play scenarios. Anglia TV meet Mahebub Ladha from the PCCR, the β€˜Peterborough Council for Community Relations’.