Hand Made Places product Listing
Our unique range of products, makes Hand Made Places the UK's leading manufacturer of bespoke and outdoor play equipment.
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Activity Centres
Our Activity Centres are designed to balance freedom with safety and offer stimulating play activities for smaller children.
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Activity Panels
Activity panels are educational as they encourage creativity and playful learning. They offer practice in color and shape recognition, eye and hand coordination, problem solving, and other developmental functions.
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Adventure Trails
An easily accessible and appealing range of tried and tested fitness and agility orientated play equipment that will fit to any location.
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Ball Walls & Courts
Often overlooked when designing a playground is the use of vertical space. Interacting with walls was a major part of our childhood and as far as children are concerned, good walls can be found potentially anywhere; of course, the building's owners often have other views on the subject!
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Bespoke Work
Over the years we have enjoyed designing a number of bespoke and fascinating play structures and settings and are committed to continue our tradition of developing new and exciting ways for children to explore the world of play.
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Climbarounds
This range incorporates ropewalks, balance beams, ladders, trapeze rings, rock holds climbing nets, platforms, fireman’s pole, pull-up ramps, slides, rope tunnels and bridges.
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Creative Play
From boats and lighthouses, tractors and trains, pirate & islands, bridges and theatres, Hand Made Places products are designed to focus on helping children develop their imagination and encourage playful learning and other non-academic development skills such as social interaction.
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Educational Workshops
Our aim is to make children’s needs, views, abilities and interests the starting point of the design and planning of a new play development.
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Innovative Fencing & Gates
To create a sense of enclosure fences don’t need to be solid. In fact they can be a feature in their own right.
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Living Willow
Living Willow is a joy and structures such as arches, domes and tunnels can create shade and provide interesting, soothing, learning environments.
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Musical Play
Music is like magic to children and it is a wonderful art form that encompasses all areas of child development: physical, intellectual, social and emotional.
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Outdoor Classrooms
The outdoor environment can offer rich learning experiences not found indoors and an outdoor classroom is ideal for an evolving curriculum, providing sensory experiences leading to greater levels of creativity and understanding.
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Play Sculptures
With a timeless appeal these robust and distinctive characters address our children’s need for the mystical and magical and their sense of wonder.
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Seating Solutions
Seating can be a major ingredient in the overall characterisation of your school grounds. Our well-designed seating provides a number of benefits and uses such as a place for gathering and social activity
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Sensory Planters
Hand Made Places are able to supply a variety of planters and raised beds to suit the needs of your school.
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Shelters & Shade
Children and young people are often outside during the middle of the day. So providing sufficient shade, or rain-cover, for outdoor spaces in schools is very important.
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Special Needs
Hand Made Places has created numerous customised playgrounds for special needs schools across the UK.
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Surfacing
Impact absorbing surfaces are a crucial element to any play area. From natural hard wood chips to recycled rubber wet pour they can be incorporated into an attractive design or become a feature in their own right.
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Totems & Signs
Our enormously popular totems, sensory and finger posts may be used in a variety of ways.
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Traditional Play
The equipment that you see here have been continual favourites for centuries.

























