About Us
At Fun & Active Playgrounds, we believe every child should have a place to play, explore, and feel connected. Our vision is to shape outdoor spaces that bring lasting value and happiness to schools and communities across the UK. By combining imaginative play equipment, creative playground markings, and safe, long-lasting surfacing, we’re here to encourage movement, inspire curiosity, and support healthy, active childhoods.
Our Mission
We’re on a mission to help schools and communities turn outdoor spaces into exciting, safe, and welcoming places for children to be active and thrive. With more than 15 years of hands-on industry experience, we design, supply, and install durable play structures, bright thermoplastic markings, and trusted surfacing solutions. Every project is delivered with care, attention to detail, and a strong focus on safety and long-term value – because great play spaces should last for years and leave a lasting impact.
Values
Our company culture values exist to ensure we create an enjoyable experience for both our employees as well as our customers whilst we work towards our mission. Our values include:
| · Integrity
· Excellence · Ownership |
· Efficiency
· Kindness · Respect |
· Confidence
· Communication · Teamwork |
At Fun & Active Playgrounds, we make every effort to ensure our culture values go beyond our immediate circle of colleagues and customers, extending them to the wider community and the environment. Find out more on our Sustainability page for our Environmental and Social Impact.
Company Culture
Fun & Active Playgrounds is a fun and active place to work! Our close-knit team work extremely hard and strive to achieve the highest standard in quality. In return, we make sure we have fun together with frequent team building days.
From team lunches to activity days and even overseas trips, we believe in creating an environment where our employees can thrive and have fun as a team, forming the backbone of a successful business.
Our Story
Founders Dave and Greg, met at school where they quickly became good friends. After leaving school, they worked together at a bank before they ventured on their own journeys. They kept in touch and would often meet at the driving range to hit a few balls. It was on one of those visits that they joyfully exchanged the news that their partners were expecting babies six weeks apart. Never one to be kept waiting, Dave’s daughter, Millie, decided to make an early appearance and Harrison, Greg’s son, made his entrance on the same day, in the same hospital!
Some months later, the duo met for lunch where Dave shared his idea of making his passion for playground markings a reality, and it was there that Fun & Active Playgrounds was formed.
From that lunch meeting to now, it’s been a whirlwind, meeting many people and learning a lot along the way.
Dave learnt his trade working for a preformed thermoplastic manufacturer. He was collecting materials direct from the manufacturer for a distributor that he worked for at the time and expressed an interest in the product – he soon found himself working there!
After 8 years of learning the ins and outs of the product, Dave decided it was time to use his creative side making fantastic designs for schools to take outdoor learning and activities to the next level.
Meanwhile, Greg was working in the financial services sector and was one of the youngest in the country to become a qualified mortgage advisor. This led to him gaining a diploma as a financial advisor and running a number of successful service-based companies, where understanding customer needs and exceeding their expectations was paramount.
They have gone from working in a small home office and hand cutting playground markings on a driveway to a team of 15, investing in a state-of-the-art waterjet cutting machine. They have outgrown and moved premises four times, enabling the company to transform the playgrounds of hundreds of schools every year.
Most recently, Fun & Active has expanded its offering to include high-quality playground equipment, allowing the team to deliver complete outdoor play solutions, from design and surfacing to full equipment installation.
