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


The closure of playgrounds – a false economy?

  • Posted on Nov 28, 2018
  • BLOG

In my last blog, I told you about the research we were working on.  Now published, it shows – all…


Wira going on a summer holiday

eibe’s delightful Wira unit from our paradiso range is the stand-out product in a brand new play area at Stonehouse…


Playforce supports children’s hospices across the UK with natural play equipment

As part of Playforce’s ‘Nature Month’, the company selected children’s hospices across the UK to receive brand new ‘natural world’…


RTC Celebrates Record Breaking August & New Appointment

Summer is always a very busy time here at RTC but this summer proved to be busier than ever! In…


Nowhere to Play: obesity warning as playground closures go into freefall

New research shows that playgrounds continue to close at an alarming rate despite the government’s claims that they are tackling…


Blue plaque unveiling by The Rt Hon Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health & Social Care

It was 100 years ago that Charles Wicksteed made the first swing and so began manufacturing play equipment from his…


Sign the petition and support the call for a Cabinet Minister for Children

  • Posted on Oct 30, 2018
  • BLOG

The call for a Minister dedicated to the welfare of children and young people is gathering pace. The petition has…


eibe’s Shakespeare Plays

No Macbeth, no Hamlet, but plenty of Midsummer Night Dreams at the delightful Shakespeare Infants in Hampshire this year, as…


Are our parks, playgrounds and green spaces going into freefall?

  • Posted on Oct 04, 2018
  • BLOG

The decline in parks, playgrounds and green spaces appears to be going into freefall. Many of you will have seen…


Official Opening of new Creative Play playground at Ramsgate pub remembers little Alfie

THE family of a brave little boy whose battle against a rare cancer inspired his parents to set up a…