Coming up to the Spring and Summer months, Sand Pits are always a popular choice for people to install within the playground setting. Playing in the sand has many great benefits for children of all ages and allows a level of independent play they can often not get from more advanced play equipment. The sand … Read more
Playhouses are proving to be very popular play units for both residential and commercial purchasing. The variety and scope of “added extras” for a playhouse now mean that not only are they are fun to play in socially, they can also offer a lot for childhood development learning. Developing Imagination A playhouse was originally designed … Read more
Lately we have noticed an increase in the demand for wooden playground equipment. Although always present in the marketplace, wooden playground equipment has seen a sudden surge in popularity which has peaked our interest! Environmentally Friendly Playgrounds Throughout our lives there has been an increased movement on environmentally friendly products, from organic food to even … Read more
We are exhibiting this year at the Holiday Park Innovation Show 2017, Stand 2214. Holiday Park Innovation is the most comprehensive and interactive show dedicated to the holiday park industry. This is the only event that offers holiday park owners the guidance, inspiration, supplies, and resources to put your holiday park on the map. On … Read more
Today is the last article in our London Marathon Training series. The run is over, the finish line crossed and almost a year of intensive training that has had both ecstatic highs and real lows for our sponsored runner Jim, was concluded in one momentous day, making it all worthwhile. So, for one last time, … Read more
Most of us love to eat – the tastes, flavours and usually something sweet is simply irresistible. But do you know what drives you to eat, what causes you to feel hungry, or, for that matter, what tells you that you are full? Scientists, working with Labrador Retriever dogs have found a gene that helps … Read more
In your teens you may have run around and played outdoors or ridden your bike for hours on end. In your 20s you may have danced and kick-boxed, gym-ed or pedalled your way to fitness in a spin class. In your 30s and 40s it might have been Pilates, yoga, Zumba or Tae Bo. But … Read more
We all know that there is a chasm of difference between the lifestyles of the rich and poor in Britain, but, according to researchers at City University London, despite the fact that they have quite different life expectancy, the gap between rich and poor has not grown above that of the 1870s – until now. … Read more
Are we a ‘sleep-deprived nation’? Shirley Cramer from the Royal Society for Public Health spells out for us what we should be getting and why. In an interview on the BBC she said that the average ‘slumber number’ for an adult should be somewhere between seven and nine hours a night. Do you get that … Read more
We live in an age where the entire world seems obsessed with something called an ‘obesity crisis’, but what does that actually mean? Sometimes it’s easier to boil things down to the pure numbers to recognise the scale of a problem. My memories of 1975 seem almost sepia in colour, possibly even with a nostalgic … Read more