Nowadays many schools – because funds and budgets are becoming ever tighter – are beginning to realise that they need to find alternative means of raising money for their playground projects. And what better way to do this than raising much needed extra revenue by opening up their facilities for community use. If you’ll excuse […]
The supermarket chain Tesco has launched a community grant initiative which will fund capital projects for school playgrounds. The emphasis of the grant is on providing green spaces and because Tesco is expecting there to be a major demand for grants, the charity Groundwork will assess all of the applications received and then provide a shortlist […]
The first question to ask your self is what do you actually need this outdoor shelter to do? i.e. is it just for protecting the children against the elements of the British climate or do you want to be able to use it for outdoor learning and to double up as an outdoor classroom too? […]
Schools are beginning to use crowdfunding ever more as a successful way and means of raising money for their school playground projects. If you are not fully aware of what crowdfunding is, it is best described as asking a large crowd of donors to each make a small donation to your school – mainly done […]
It is possible for a school to take out an operating lease on a new mobile classroom building as a way of funding this capital purchase. Key points of an Operating Lease An operating lease is the only type of lease a local authority school or academy is entitled to sign The maximum term for […]
It is finally in and operational! Delivered as a pre-manufactured mobile classroom, the school were enjoying their first class in there just 10 days after we delivered the building to site. The teachers and staff (and the children) are absolutely delighted with it and in this cold weather, they are more than warm! And a […]
Our business has always been involved in the educational sector and we have hopefully built up a good reputation with schools for supplying quality outdoor classrooms, eco classrooms, school buildings, playground equipment and bespoke landscaping projects. But we started to get quite a few enquiries from the leisure and hospitality industry for play equipment, multi purpose buildings such […]
Yesterday we delivered our new modular/mobile classroom building at Kington St Michael School in Wiltshire. It is an attractive, off-site pre-manufactured classroom building which comes in four sections which are all then bolted together once sited. At this particular school, we had to use a crane to lift each section into place due to the access problems […]
Last week we very kindly received an order for an outdoor classroom and some playground equipment from a school whose name I didn’t immediately recognise. On consulting the database, I noticed that the original enquiry was from two and a half years back but it had taken this amount of time for the good people […]
There are indeed some very good reasons why your school should consider buying an eco classroom building as opposed to a more traditional design and specification. Below we list the principle reasons for going down the eco design route: It goes without saying of course that eco classrooms are environmentally friendly and are doing their bit to […]