Creative Play: We Make Creative Play Happen

Here at Creative Play, our team have been designing, manufacturing, and installing high-quality playground equipment in a variety of spaces around the UK since 1991.

For over three decades, we have been transforming spaces across the UK with innovative playground designs. Since 1991, we’ve delivered more than 14,000 installations, building a wealth of experience in creating high-quality, safe, and engaging play environments for children.

We believe play is an essential part of every child’s education, which is why we are committed to designing spaces that inspire creativity, learning, and exploration. With an ever-expanding product range, from simple benches to large-scale 20 tower Jigsaw play systems, we offer solutions to suit playgrounds of all sizes, age groups, and budgets.

The education sector has become our largest area of expertise, and we work closely with senior leadership teams and school administrators to ensure each playground meets the unique needs of both the school and its pupils. Our experienced team supports clients at every stage, from design through to installation, ensuring every child has access to a fun, safe, and stimulating outdoor environment for play and physical activity.

Family Business

We are a family run business, the same family still operate the business today.

Across the UK

We believe over 11 million people across the UK have enjoyed Creative Play Equipment

Experience

We have 350+ combined years’ experience in the play industry

Proud

We have worked with many big established companies including Burger King, Chester Zoo, Alton Towers, the NHS and even the BBC!

Product Design & Safety

Our product designs have been adding fun, imaginative flourishes of excitement to schools, local authorities, and the leisure and hospitality sector since 1991.

Employing a meticulous and extensive design process for the creation of play equipment suitable for children of all ages, the BS EN safety standards have always been at the core of our efforts. Dedicated to delivering high-quality play value, our designers continue to strive towards inclusivity and a green ethos.

Product Design & Safety

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Playground Design & Consultation

Consultations guide partners to the best equipment for their needs and budget before it is brought to life by our dedicated team of designers, helping customers realise their dream play spaces.

They ensure play areas are laid out for maximum fun, to the highest of safety standards, and the strictest of space requirements. Providing visual creations for schools, councils, and attractions, as well as detailed plans for our installers, they bridge the gap between ideas and realisation.

Playground Design & Consultation

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Playground Equipment Manufacturing

Our playground manufacturing prioritises sustainability and durability with materials like recycled plastic and robust timbers. Aligning efforts with Carbon Net Zero goals, we operate from our own factory and have been busy enhancing processes for over 30 years.

Employing high-tech machinery alongside traditional woodworking skills, all our products are compliant with BS EN safety standards, and are weather resistant. The bespoke nature of our work means we can accommodate almost any budget, and over four decades have refined the craft to deliver precisely what customers want for school playgrounds, communities, and hospitality sites.

Playground Equipment Manufacturing

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Core Playground Materials

Creative Play is dedicated to crafting playgrounds that are safe, long-lasting, and environmentally conscious. We select only high-quality materials, like FSC-certified timber, vibrant recycled plastics, slip-resistant surfaces, and strong steel core ropes, all designed to withstand heavy outdoor use.

These components are chosen not only for durability but also for their sustainability and safety, ensuring our playgrounds are both engaging and responsible. With each project, we aim to create inviting play spaces that will thrive for years, providing communities with play environments they can rely on and enjoy.

Core Playground Materials

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Installation & Delivery

We deliver playground equipment nationwide using our own fleet and trusted partners, ensuring reliable and timely arrivals. Dedicated Installation Managers oversee every project, providing updates while maintaining safety, quality, and deadlines. All installers and managers are DBS-checked for your peace of mind.

Installation instructions are available for supply-only orders.

Free delivery and installation available for qualifying UK mainland orders (not applicable to supply-only purchases).

Installation & Delivery

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Playground Inspection & Maintenance

Let us help look after your investment. Annual inspections and maintenance ensure playgrounds remain in top condition and continue to be compliant with BS EN safety standards. They are carried out by independent, qualified RPII (Register of Playground Inspectors International) inspectors, letting us know of any required repairs.

As a company who design and manufacture all our own bespoke permanent playground installations, replacement parts are always available, even decades after purchase.

Playground Inspection & Maintenance

Take a look at some of these throwback products and designs!

Do you remember playing on any of these when you were a child?

OUR ACCREDITATIONS

At Creative Play, we’re always striving to be the best and offer our customers the highest quality of service.

That’s why so much effort has been put into achieving a range of accreditations that come with added benefits for us – and you!

Each one requires its own assessment process before it can be awarded, if you’d like to learn more about what each means then check out our breakdown – an easy way to understand exactly how far we’re pushing things here at Creative Play.

API

The lead trade organisation within the Play Industry, actively promoting all matters relating to play.

CHAS

CHAS is established as the market leader for health and safety pre-qualification in the UK. It is available to suppliers (those who provide goods and services) and to organisations (buyers) looking for suitably competent suppliers.

CHAS isn’t just for construction companies, it assesses health and safety for all types of suppliers, from care services to demolition contractors, designers and consultants. The aim of the scheme is to save time and resources by avoiding unnecessary duplication in the first stage of competence assessment; the CDM Core criteria.

ISO9001

ISO 9001 is the world’s most widely recognised Quality Management System (QMS). It belongs to the ISO 9000 family of quality management system standards (along with ISO 9004), and helps organisations to meet the expectations and needs of their customers, amongst other benefits.

An ISO 9001 quality management system will help you to continually monitor and manage quality across all operations, and outlines ways to achieve, as well as benchmark, consistent performance and service. Internationally, it is the quality system of choice!

ROSPA

ROSPA was originally created after an alarming increase in traffic accidents due to restricted street lighting which had been necessitated by the War conditions in 1916. They are the UK leading safety charity and have been at the heart is accident prevention for almost 100 years. ROSPA promote safety and prevention of accidents.

Their aim is to provide efficiency savings to public and private sector buyers and the construction industry as a whole by streamlining procurement procedures and improving the supply chain management processes by reducing risk, creating cost efficiencies and helping buyers engage with new suppliers, including SMEs and local companies.

We work hard so you can play hard

Over our time of trading we have built up a huge amount experience in delivering exciting, innovative outdoor learning environments and sports & recreational facilities. We started business working primarily with pubs designing and creating the classic fibreglass play trees and now creating high quality equipment using timber from trees! Customer service is top of our agenda and we are proud to be one of the leading playground and sports equipment providers in the UK. We look at each and every project as a totally unique space that needs to provide children with an area they find exciting, simulating, safe and above all fun!

Safety is Our Priority

All of our outdoor playground equipment is designed and manufactured in-house and meets the stringent requirements of BSEN1176. We take the safety of our customers and all end users seriously, which is reflected in the materials we use and the design and manufacturing processes employed.

We offer a range of playground surfacing, tested to BSEN1177 standards, including wetpour safety surfacing, rubber mulch & artificial grass.

Sustainability

We believe reducing the impact we have on the environment aids both our surroundings and the business and are continually looking for ways to be more environmentally conscious in all parts of the business.

We source and use sustainable materials where possible, including our timber, recycled rubber mulch safety flooring and SBR base used for under artificial grass and wet pour safety surfacing.

We have waste management targets as part of our KPI’s and aim to reduce waste and increase recycling both in the office and on site.

We also manage our impact on the environment through our fleet, with regular changes to our vehicles, replacing them with more efficient and lower emission models. The most recent addition to the fleet includes a hybrid vehicle.

We are also part of a cycle to work scheme, encouraging our employees to diversify their mode of transport into work.

Creative Play: We Make Creative Play Happen

Family Business

Across the UK

Experience

Proud

Product Design & Safety

Playground Design & Consultation

Playground Equipment Manufacturing

Core Playground Materials

Installation & Delivery

Playground Inspection & Maintenance

Take a look at some of these throwback products and designs!

OUR ACCREDITATIONS

We work hard so you can play hard

Safety is Our Priority

Sustainability

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