As a company, we pride ourselves on offering one of the UK’s most comprehensive range of outdoor classrooms and shelters – so this therefore means lots of options and choices for the customer!. The starting point for the end user is to decide upon the following: how much money do we want to spend (or […]
We have recently been approached by a school in Northampton who bought a few of outdoor classroom pods from us a couple of years ago. Due to a relocation programme, they have approached us to see if we can help sell them on to another school. They are painted in two colour schemes – red […]
Technology moves on so quickly nowadays it can be quite daunting but we certainly need to embrace it rather than be scared of it. A lot of the enquires we get from school staff are at the start of their journey – and by this I mean they sort of know what they want but […]
When I set up my company 12 years ago, it was built on two founding principles – always try and create new, exciting and relevant product ideas and always try and promote environmental awareness and sustainability within schools. And 12 years on, we are still doing exactly this today! I originally had an idea of […]
As part of our overall service, we like to help schools access funding to pay for our various products if indeed they need assistance in this respect. Hence the reason why we spend a lot of time researching what grants are currently available for educational establishments and what type of projects they will support. Once […]
We have noticed a lot of requests recently from schools who are looking to have an outdoor classroom used as a library. The main reason for wanting to have a separate building outside in the school grounds is for a couple of reasons: Firstly, there is not enough spare space inside the main school building […]
Covid 19 certainly has had quite a significant impact on the world and we perhaps still don’t know yet the full ramifications and implications it has imposed upon societies. But there is one thing for sure and that is the world has or will need to change and adapt our way of life quite significantly […]
We are not just a supplier of quality outdoor classrooms and play equipment for schools as we are able to offer extensive ancillary advice and help in the following matters as well: Funding – as well as compiling our own Funding Guide which lists important and useful information such as how to apply successfully for […]
It is ten years now since I set up the Hideout House Company to sell a new and unique range of playground equipment and outdoor classrooms/buildings to schools. The main emphasis then – as it is now – was on developing products which in some way could promote eco educational learning as well as being […]
This is perhaps one of the most commonly asked questions from our customers when we are discussing build requirements for their outdoor classroom or undertaking a site visit. A lot depends on the site itself and a number of other mitigating factors – whether it is level, what type of existing surface the feature will […]