About Hand Made Places
Hand Made Places Limited – Playgrounds for Learning and Fun
Hand Made Places is an innovative play grounds creator, developing over the seven years of its trading a unique style that is tailored to reflect the need in our communities for imaginative non prescriptive play in a safe and natural environment.
Since the company’s start, there has been experienced a meteoric growth in our business. From a one man organisation at home, to our move in 2004 from a traditional workshop to an 8000 square feet factory site, the company has retained the hand made quality that pervades the quality of its work and the craftsmanship that underlies the equipments’ design strength and appeal.
With over 40 employees based in our Hampshire site and teams of installers operating nationwide, Hand Made Places is now well placed to offer across the country a first-class product, with design and service being the cornerstones of our product range.
The culmination of our efforts has been realised this year in being awarded the prestigious Education Supplier of the Year Award from the Education Resources Awards Ceremony, and we feel that this bears witness to our commitment to our clients and our product.
With our business partners who provide specialist services and products in related fields, our understanding of the overarching requirements for key features, such as health and safety, BS EN1176 regulations and requirements, and the logistics of managing teams and resources to budget and deadline has enabled our company to not only offer creatively unique products, but to deliver them with expertise, style and quality.
The experience of Hand Made Places
Since starting on our journey in 1998, we have completed more than 2000 grounds developments across the country. Our most prestigious have combined innovative design and creative installation to match the challenge of the location. We have developed play sites to suit specific clients including new build special community schools in Guernsey and Winchester. In acquiring an expertise in understanding specific needs we have been able to focus our product to enable our clients provide solutions in play that have been ground breaking.
Our site at the Rose Road Association in Southampton, a charitable trust providing care and resources for children with physical disability was opened by His Royal Highness Prince Edward.
Hand Made Places is a driving force within Learning Through Landscapes; we work with the Woodland Trust, and provide resources to class teachers in curriculum-linked work with different aspects of grounds developments including willow work and creating willow shelters.
We want to challenge the learning experience for children whilst maintaining fun and physical excitement. We of course take into account the relevant critical fall heights in our equipment and ensure that all our surfaces meet BS EN1177 to provide peace of mind and an environment for risk to be a safe encounter.
It is no surprise that we consider ourselves to be more than a playgrounds provider. We have a passion for our style of work and for our products that is rooted in a belief in holistic play and fun, which has meant that we are very well received when we exhibit at the Education Show at the NEC and Early Years Shows across the country. We are indeed proud of our work, and whilst learning continually ourselves will continue to strive to improve our practises and products to match the ever-challenging environment of the market place.
