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Play Equipment for Multi-Academy Trusts

One partner for every school in your trust. We design, supply and install premium playground equipment, outdoor gyms and safety surfacing across multiple sites, delivering consistent quality, simplified procurement and a single point of contact from first school to last.

Children playing on inclusive playground roundabout spinner with safety surfacing in a park play area
10,000+

Projects Completed Across the UK

18+

Years Serving the Education Sector

100%

DBS-Checked Installation Teams

BS EN 1176

Fully Compliant Equipment & Surfacing

Your One-Stop-Shop for Multi-Academy Trust Playgrounds

Equipment varies from site to site; the result is inconsistent play provision for pupils, unpredictable maintenance costs and a procurement headache for estates teams. We design, supply, install and maintain complete playgrounds in-house, so your trust gets one supplier, one contract, one standard of quality and one point of contact across every school – from a single refurbishment to a phased trust-wide rollout.

Our Process

How We Bring Your Trust's Playgrounds to Life

From first site visit to long-term aftercare, our four-step process keeps your project simple, transparent and stress-free, whether it covers one school or twenty.

STEP 1 OF 4

Free Site Consultation

Every trust-wide project starts with understanding your estate. Our education specialists visit each site free of charge, meeting your estates team, headteachers and business managers to assess existing equipment, ground conditions and the needs of each school community. We then map priorities across the trust, so budget goes where it delivers the most impact first.

Design
Free Site Consultation
STEP 2 OF 4

Bespoke 3D Design

Our in-house designers produce detailed 3D visuals and scaled site plans for every school, built to a consistent trust-wide standard while reflecting each site's space, age range and character. You see exactly how each playground will look before any ground is broken, with unified specifications that simplify approval at board level and keep costs predictable across the programme.

Installation
Bespoke 3D Design
STEP 3 OF 4

Expert Installation

Our directly employed, DBS-checked installation teams work around the school calendar, often during holidays and weekends, and can sequence installations across your trust to match your budget cycle and term dates. Every installation is completed to BS EN 1176, with the same team standards on every site and each playground left clean, safe and ready to play.

Aftercare
Expert Installation
STEP 4 OF 4

Aftercare & Maintenance

We do not disappear once the ribbon is cut. Caloo provides annual RPII inspections, servicing and repairs across all your sites under one aftercare arrangement, with consolidated reporting that gives your estates team a single view of compliance across the whole trust. One contact, every school, year after year.

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Aftercare & Maintenance

Providing playgrounds, outdoor gyms and safety surfacing to multi-academy trusts across the UK

Our complete range is designed, supplied and installed in-house to the highest safety standards, and specified consistently across every school in your trust. Explore the categories most popular with multi-academy trusts.

Timber swing set with basket swing, standard swings, and toddler seat in a grassy park.

Playground Equipment

Climbing frames, trim trails, swings, slides and imaginative play features that cover every key stage in your trust, from Reception to Year 11. Specifying from a single manufacturer range means consistent quality, common spare parts and simpler inspections across all sites, while each school still gets equipment matched to its pupils’ ages and abilities.

Multiplay Units

Tower-and-deck multiplay units combine climbing, sliding and imaginative play in one compact footprint, making them the best play equipment for multi academy trusts working with varied site sizes. Available in steel, timber and robinia to suit each school’s setting and budget, they deliver maximum play value per square metre and scale easily from small infant sites to large junior playgrounds.

Outdoor Gym Equipment

Purpose-built outdoor fitness stations keep KS2 and secondary pupils active, support PE delivery and extend healthy-lifestyle provision across the trust. Rolling the same proven units out across multiple schools lets trusts standardise risk assessments and maintenance while giving every pupil, at every site, the same opportunity to build strength, fitness and confidence.

MUGAs

All-weather multi-use games areas with sports markings, rebound fencing and goal ends turn underused tarmac into year-round sports provision. For trusts, MUGAs maximise curriculum time lost to waterlogged fields, host inter-school fixtures within the trust, and can open to the community outside school hours, creating engagement and even lettings revenue across your estate.

Skate Park Equipment

Durable ramps, banks and grind features give secondary schools and older year groups a reason to be active at break and after school. For trusts with secondary sites, skate zones engage pupils that traditional sport often misses, support positive behaviour at social times, and are built from hard-wearing materials that stand up to intensive daily use with minimal upkeep.

Youth Shelter by skate park

Outdoor Shelters & Furniture

Shelters, canopies, seating and outdoor classrooms complete each site, providing covered social space, all-weather teaching areas and sheltered waiting zones for parents. Standardising shelters and furniture across the trust creates a recognisable, cohesive look at every school and simplifies replacement and repair, with one specification serving the whole estate.

Safety Surfacing

Wetpour, rubber mulch, artificial grass and daily mile tracks provide safe, impact-absorbing surfaces certified to BS EN 1177. Surfacing is often the biggest variable across a trust’s estate, with each site failing at a different rate. Auditing and renewing it under one programme brings every school up to the same standard and lets trusts plan replacement cycles rather than react to failures.

Proven Success Stories

Case Studies

See how we have transformed outdoor spaces for schools and trusts across the UK, delivering consistent quality site after site.

Get Funding

Worried about budget? Trusts often have more routes available than individual schools, with options such as the PE & Sport Premium, the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) bids for eligible trusts and School Condition Allocations (SCA) for larger trusts. Phasing a rollout across financial years can also spread cost while keeping one consistent specification. Our team will guide you through what is available and help build a costed proposal to support your application or board approval.

The Benefits of Multi-Academy Trust Playgrounds

Investing in quality playground equipment delivers measurable returns for both pupils and the trust as a whole- spanning physical development, academic performance, operational efficiency and long-term estate value.

Physical Development

Quality equipment builds strength, balance and coordination, giving pupils the foundation for an active, healthy lifestyle.

Improved Classroom Focus

Pupils who burn energy on trim trails and outdoor gym equipment at lunchtime settle faster and concentrate better in afternoon lessons.

Year-Round Use

MUGAs with proper surfacing keep sport running through winter, and outdoor classrooms turn underused spaces into usable curriculum areas.

Strong Pupil Recruitment

Consistent, well-maintained outdoor spaces strengthen the trust’s offer to prospective families and support healthy pupil numbers across every school.

Cost Savings

Buying across the trust cuts cost per site compared with individual schools procuring alone, and standardised equipment simplifies inspection and maintenance.

Strategic Estate Management

A single aftercare arrangement gives estates teams one clear view of compliance, turning playgrounds from a per-school liability into a centrally managed asset.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about specifying, funding and installing playground equipment across your trust.

Are the playground designs consistent across all sites?+
We can design to a trust-wide specification so every school shares the same quality, look and safety standards, while still tailoring each layout to the site's space, age range and character. Many trusts choose a consistent core palette of equipment with site-specific variations.
How often should playground equipment be inspected?+
Best practice is a documented visual check by staff weekly, a recorded operational inspection every one to three months, and an annual main inspection by an independent RPII-registered inspector. Caloo can carry out annual inspections and servicing across all your sites under one aftercare arrangement, with consolidated reporting for your estates team.
What is the best play equipment for multi academy trusts?+
Equipment that scales well across different sites and ages: multiplay units for compact, high-value play, trim trails that flex to any space, MUGAs for year-round sport, and durable steel or timber ranges with common parts across schools. The right mix depends on your estate, which is exactly what our free consultation across your sites establishes.
How much space is needed for an outdoor playground space?+
Less than most trusts expect. A compact multiplay unit with safety surfacing can work in under 100 square metres, while a full playground with multiple zones typically needs 200 to 600 square metres. Every item carries a defined safety zone under BS EN 1176, and our designers plan around these to make the most of whatever space each school has.
Can you deliver playground projects across multiple schools in a trust?+
Yes, this is exactly what we do. Because design, manufacture, installation and aftercare are all handled in-house, we can run projects at several schools in parallel or in sequence, coordinated through a single project manager, with consistent specifications, pricing and standards across the whole programme.
Can you provide aftercare and a single point of contact across all trust sites?+
Yes. Every trust we work with gets one named account contact covering all sites, plus a single aftercare arrangement covering annual RPII inspections, servicing and repairs. Your estates team makes one call whatever the site, and receives consolidated compliance reporting across the estate.
How do you handle phased rollouts across multiple schools?+
We start by auditing every site and agreeing priorities with your estates team, then build a phased programme matched to your budget cycle, term dates and funding milestones. Specifications and pricing are locked across the programme, so school five gets the same value and standard as school one, and each phase is installed during holidays or weekends to avoid disruption.

View Gallery

A glimpse of the school playgrounds and outdoor spaces we have designed, supplied and installed for trusts and schools across the UK.

Timber swing set with basket swing, standard swings, and toddler seat in a grassy park.
Children playing in the Mud Laboratory
Playground role-play panel shaped like a ticket office beside a small red train-themed tunnel.
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Other Educational Areas

Discover how we support outstanding outdoor spaces across every stage of education.

EYFS - Nursery & Reception

Safe, sensory-rich play for babies, toddlers and under-fives.

SEN / Inclusive Play

Sensory, accessible and inclusive play so children of all abilities play together.

Children balancing on wooden beams and stepping posts in an outdoor school playground.

Primary School

Active, imaginative play and fitness equipment designed for KS1 and KS2 break times.

Secondary School

Fitness, sport and social spaces for older students.