This year, the LEGO Foundation launched its largest Danish grant to date, aimed at creating a strong foundation for improving young children’s development and wellbeing through play and inclusive communities.

With a commitment of DKK 100 million, we support local capacity building for early childhood educators and childcare centre leaders across 17 municipalities.

The programme, Alle Børns Dagtilbud (“Every Child’s Daycare”), is delivered in partnership with three key organisations: Kommunernes Landsforening, Komponent, and the University Colleges of Denmark.

Over the next four years, more than 2,000 educators and 100 leaders will have the opportunity to work systematically on strengthening quality in their early childhood settings – with play as the central driver.

In 2025, the LEGO Foundation entered a five-year strategic partnership with BRAC to support children growing up in crisis-affected settings.

Grounded in a shared belief that every child deserves dignity, care and the opportunity to thrive, the partnership focuses on strengthening education, wellbeing and psychosocial support through play-based approaches.

Building on a long-standing collaboration — including the development of BRAC’s pioneering Play Lab model — the USD 50 million partnership will support children from birth to 18 in fragile contexts in Bangladesh and Uganda.

By investing in long-term, adaptive approaches, the partnership aims to strengthen systems around children in crisis and contribute to more inclusive, resilient learning environments — even in the most challenging circumstances.

In 2025, LEGO® Play Boxes reached more than 2.1 million children across 27 countries.

The LEGO Play Box is a non-commercial resource, made partly from surplus materials. Used together with local partners, caregivers and practitioners, it helps support children’s social and emotional skills, wellbeing and everyday learning through play, even in complex and challenging contexts.

This work is made possible through partnership. We are especially grateful to the 166 retired LEGO colleagues who volunteered their time this year, continuing to support children and communities around the world.

Over the past decade, the LEGO Foundation has partnered with Right To Play to expand access to playful learning for children in diverse contexts. Together, the partnership has reached more than 7 million children and 200,000 teachers across 12 countries, contributing to lasting improvements in classrooms, schools and communities.

The collaboration spans a range of initiatives tailored to local needs. This includes Play to Grow in Uganda and Tanzania, which strengthens parent–child relationships in refugee communities; Plug in Play in Rwanda, supporting students’ engagement with robotics and coding; and Partners in Play in Ghana, which has helped improve learning experiences for approximately 600,000 students.

Across contexts, the partnership demonstrates how sustained investment in play-based approaches can support children’s learning, wellbeing and development at scale.

In 2025, the LEGO Foundation’s investment in the Play Matters programme delivered clear, measurable impact for children growing up in crisis-affected regions. Over the past five years, the programme has equipped teachers in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda with play-based, crisis-responsive approaches that help children learn, develop, and cope in challenging environments.

As Project Director Martin Omukuba notes, teachers are central to the programme’s success, as strengthened pedagogical practices directly improve children’s learning and well-being. Play Matters builds on children’s natural motivation to play, creating safe, inclusive settings where hands-on, meaningful activities support both curriculum learning and broader social, emotional, and creative skills.

New research results show significant improvements in children’s psychosocial well-being, reading comprehension, creativity, and social-emotional development. Play Matters is implemented by a consortium led by the International Rescue Committee, together with Plan International, War Child Alliance, Innovations for Poverty Action, and the Behavioral Insight Team.