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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.
Projects Completed Across the UK
Years Serving the Education Sector
DBS-Checked Installation Teams
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.
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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?+
How often should playground equipment be inspected?+
What is the best play equipment for multi academy trusts?+
How much space is needed for an outdoor playground space?+
Can you deliver playground projects across multiple schools in a trust?+
Can you provide aftercare and a single point of contact across all trust sites?+
How do you handle phased rollouts across multiple schools?+
View Gallery
A glimpse of the school playgrounds and outdoor spaces we have designed, supplied and installed for trusts and schools across the UK.
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.
Primary School
Active, imaginative play and fitness equipment designed for KS1 and KS2 break times.