Developing a high-quality playground goes beyond installing a few pieces of tick-box equipment, says ESP Play. Choosing the right playground developer is key to ensuring safe, innovative, and engaging spaces for children. The play industry is becoming more cutthroat by the day and unfortunately, there are companies out there who don’t deliver on the…
Access to playgrounds for children identified with special educational needs or disabilities in the UK is set for a huge boost as leading play specialists, ESP Play teams up Variety, the Children’s Charity. ESP Play will join Variety in a long-term partnership to advise and jointly fundraise to give disabled and disadvantaged…
The leading global body for play equipment safety, the Register of Play Inspectors International (RPII) is launching the UK’s first Play Safety Week on Monday 9th September. Play Safety Week has been created to drive awareness and education in play safety at a time when many children will be returning back to school and using…
International charity Right To Play is encouraging schools and nurseries to host a day of play on 11 June Global development charity Right To Play is encouraging primary schools and nurseries across the country to celebrate the first-ever International Day of Play on 11 June 2024. The charity, which uses play to…
YPO, one of the UK’s largest education and public sector buying organisations, has joined forces with Silvine to launch its “The Big Lottertree” competition, giving a whole class of children the chance to win an adventure with Go Ape. Running from 18th March to 31st May 2024, YPO invites schools from across the country to enter a…
Primary school-aged children across the UK are set to be involved in a national, citizen science project to survey their playgrounds using the micro:bit, a pocket-sized computer. Launched by BBC Children’s and Education and Micro:bit Educational Foundation, the initiative follows the free giveaway of hundreds of thousands of BBC micro:bit devices in the 2023…
GorillaUK has successfully completed the build of an extraordinary play fort at Warrender Primary School, Ruislip. GorillaUK and the school agreed on the design of the play fort based on its previous play forts built for children at schools in Stamford and Chalfont St.Giles. “We were asked to look at how the school could use…
London, February 2021: KidZania London, the UK’s largest indoor edutainment centre, has kicked off the New Year with a brand new KidZania Mayor! Following a month-long process of searching for the perfect candidate back in December 2020, KidZania are thrilled to announce that 10-year-old Livia Annabel Stone will be taking over the role, bringing with…
