This is a list of all posts recently made onto the API website.


Introducing Proludic’s 2021 playful new product innovations

Proludic is excited to share with you our NEW 2021 products which showcase how you can make your play provision…


New Directors Appointed

RTC Safety Surfaces are delighted to announce the appointment of Gary Hall as Managing Director, following his successful tenure as…


MUGAs: unlocking potential and binding communities

  • Posted on May 04, 2021
  • BLOG

Luke Billingham is a youth and community worker at Hackney Quest. Luke tells us why sports recreational cages and Multi-Use Games…


Playdale Playgrounds Recognises its Family

Playdale Playgrounds recently held an outdoors celebration to honor not only their long-serving Contracts Manager, Michael Marsden, on his retirement…


Playgrounds are Number 1 place to play

Free-to-access, public playgrounds are the most common places for children to play according to a new national survey from the…


Playground closures creating pandemic of mental health problems

A new Parliamentary Committee report has called for investment in the UK’s playgrounds to halt and reverse the alarming decline…


Boris must match Scottish play pledge

The Association of Play Industries has today written to the Prime Minister and Ministers Matt Hancock and Robert Jenrick, urging…


End Play Poverty: API writes to Children’s Commissioner

Chair of the Association of Play Industries, Mark Hardy, has written the following letter to the Children’s Commissioner for England…


‘Build Back Better’ means children too: Calls on Government to include Play in the Mental Health Act

The Association of Play Industries has written to the Government as part of a campaign organised by the All-Party Parliamentary…


Summer of Play – 7 reasons why playgrounds rule!

  • Posted on Feb 16, 2021
  • BLOG

API Chair, Mark Hardy tells us why playgrounds are more important than ever this summer. We all know that outdoor…