What makes the best outdoor table tennis table? Daily play (for starters).

Drawing on 15 years of experiences, expertise and customer feedback, the POPP Play Daily activation program has been developed as the ultimate ‘Ping Pong Placemaking’ toolkit - to help our customers achieve the best outcome for their POPP outdoor table tennis table. 

What is Ping Pong Placemaking? You can read more about it here but in short, it is the process of making your POPP outdoor ping pong table a destination for locals and visitors alike, creating a friendly and fun atmosphere with daily games of ping pong while increasing opportunities for inclusive play, community connectedness and improved health outcomes.

The POPP Play Daily program is designed to be delivered by the customer or community partner, over a two year period - with the skills, knowledge and tools then available for the life of the place activation. The program encourages and enables thousands (upon thousands) of daily table tennis moments - at each and every POPP outdoor table tennis table - but it is not always about rallies of table tennis!

Play Daily also includes activation opportunities like transforming your POPP outdoor table tennis table into a piece of public art (read about how our tables are a canvas for DIY Artwork here), using ping pong to improve community and individual fitness (see how good ping pong is for our health here) and creating a place destination - improving the identity of the place for its community. 

For both POPP customers and community partners, Play Daily is an easy to adopt, step-by-step practical guide. Presented as a program of strategic and instructive initiatives, it shares an evidence-based toolkit to activate, promote and proactively support the use of POPP outdoor table tennis tables and the growth of table tennis communities.

The overarching goal of Play Daily is to create sustainable and socially strong places where community members and visitors connect, socialise and exercise through free-to-play (or ‘pick up and play’) table tennis or ping pong (we use the two terms interchangeably). The benefits for the players are framed within physical, mental and social health outcomes. The benefits for customers and community partners centre around placemaking, place visitation and community identity.

To find out more about Play Daily, email us at [email protected]