I was trying to find a venue for our mothers group to start a playgroup and in the end no suitable free venues were available and the council gave me a contact number for a play group that is happy for gate crashers!!!

I rang this mum had a lovely chat and our mothers group went and gate crashed today for the 1st time and had a ball there babys are all slightly younger than ours but all played well together.

So moral of story is try calling council and also call playgroups website for your state. (playgroups Victoria were very helpful to me when i was getting info on starting our own group.

Good luck