Channel 4’s Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds
The brief was to provide a pop up play space for the formal gardens where children could be filmed at play and used for interacting with the older adults resident at St Monica’s Trust in Bristol. We designed a deconstructed house to provide play opportunities for the children to enjoy that would prompt memories through … Continue reading Channel 4’s Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds
Read more...Sand Pits
Sandpits are one of the most versatile elements to a playground and a great way to further the development of the minds and bodies of children. By digging, pouring, sifting, and scooping sand, children use their upper bodies and arms in ways that many of their other toys do not require them to work. Adding … Continue reading Sand Pits
Read more...A 3 year position on ESPO Play Framework
We are very proud to have been awarded a position on the new 2017- 2020 Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation Framework (ESPO) agreement for 115_17 Outdoor Playground, Fitness & Sports Facilities. This means we have been selected to supply: Natural Play Area / Timber Equipment Bespoke Play Equipment ESPO Frameworks offers customers a quick, simple and competitive route to … Continue reading A 3 year position on ESPO Play Framework
Read more...Giant Sand Pit
An essential requirement of a good play strategy is a good shed. Not only did we build Blue Coat Primary, Wotton-under-Edge their own Beach Hut to keep all their loose parts organised, we also built a sand pit so large it is called The Beach. Rather than using a formal edging for The Beach, the excavated soil was shaped … Continue reading Giant Sand Pit
Read more...Hamptonne Country Life Museum, Jersey
Our brief for a new Adventure Play Space was to replace outdated existing equipment referencing the history of the site, drawing on the vernacular architecture, agriculture and horticulture on Jersey and celebrating traditional local skills of willow weaving, bee keeping, and cider production. Play in the natural environment offers a life-enriching experience where children have ‘headspace without constraints’ and … Continue reading Hamptonne Country Life Museum, Jersey
Read more...Cambridge Pole Jungle
Our Pole Jungles are bespoke and designed to suit the users and budget available. They are built to be challenging and to have a long lasting appeal for older or younger children. This recent Pole Jungle is at the University of Cambridge Primary School and is set into a wood strip safety surface edged with … Continue reading Cambridge Pole Jungle
Read more...Role Play Products
Take the adult world and make it child sized, add loose parts and materials and you have a wonderful play space full of opportunities for creative, focused and messy play. Here are some pics of equipment we have designed and installed recently in Nurseries and Schools. Through their self-led discovery, children are able to learn … Continue reading Role Play Products
Read more...Easton Primary Academy
The existing space was a typical tarmac playground with a lean to attached to the classroom, our brief was to provide all weather play space with changes in height, climbing opportunities, loose material surfaces and smaller social spaces with seating. We enclosed the Lean To with a combination of timber and roll up canvas blinds, … Continue reading Easton Primary Academy
Read more...Newark Park
We have won the Newark Park – National Trust tender to deliver a natural play space which draws on the design principles of the original 18th century pleasure grounds with sweeps of rolling lawns, gothic ruins, bridges and lakes. Our design will reference a Gothic Folly in a slightly overgrown and mystical landscape.
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