Hope you and your staff and families are well in these difficult times. One of our suppliers temporarily shut up shop because of the corona virus as their orders dried up overnight. However, they were approached by a local care home who asked them to make some protective face shields for their staff. Within 48 […]
We are still here and open for business – so please do contact us to place your order or enquire about our products. We would love to hear from you as always
The most recent issue of Q&A Magazine (the most essential guide for schools to purchasing services and products) has featured an article from our managing director Simon Fearnehough. The article talks about how the company is supporting environmental issues by incorporating them into the design of our products – most notably, our play equipment range […]
A lot of schools need to find external funding for our extensive range of playground products and we get asked so many times about where do you start and how much time is this all going to take. We have therefore recently partnered with an excellent company called GD Funding who can help schools access […]
What strange and challenging times we currently find ourselves in where the only certainty at the moment is the uncertainty. With schools now shut until further notice, we do all appreciate that there will be a sense of nervousness about the future – which is totally understandable in light of the mitigating circumstances – but […]
We have just completed a building for St John the Evangelist Church in Littlewick Green, Berkshire which is going to be used as a Sunday school room. We have provided many kinds of these types of buildings in the past to schools but not one for a church so it was quite a unique and […]
For a long time now, we have developing products for schools which promote environmental awareness and nurture an appreciation of the planet and its finite resources. Such products include our playground equipment and other playground products (planters, sandboxes, mud kitchens etc) made entirely out of recycled plastic; our eco classrooms which feature living roofs and […]
Did you know….? • Each year about 12.5 million tonnes of plastic is made from fossil fuels • More than 30% of this plastic is used for short-lived packaging products • Over 50% of the light packaging materials from household collections consist of plastic At the Hideout House Company, we believe that our position as […]
So we have this whole big issue of plastic pollution which is wreaking all kinds of havoc on the environment adversely affecting wildlife, wildlife habitat and us, humans. David Attenborough has told us all about it; so has Greta Thunberg and even school children from around the world recently went on strike for a day […]
We have been asked a lot recently by schools for a nurture or sensory room facility. This is loosely defined as somewhere children can go – either as an individual or within small groups plsu teacher support – where they can have some quiet and relaxing time and space for themselves. Some time out shall […]