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Playfair playful spaces shaped by Play Shaper With the election over,


the API’s Playfair is perfectly timed for re-elected and newly elected MPs to see what is on offer for children, young people, adults, families, schools and communities. Playfair’s centrepiece, Playful Places, is designed by API Members to reflect Play England’s Play Shaper thinking for communities (www.playshaper.org.uk.). It will be a central play display feature and will illustrate and demonstrate best practice in play area design, layout and equipment selection. Each play surface or item of play equipment, natural or ‘fixed’, will have an information board. These boards will explain the item’s function and benefits in, for example, helping to combat obesity, honing skills like balance and judgement and developing motor muscle strength and coordination – while offering children lots of fun and excitement, challenge, risk and reward - and play, for play’s sake. “There is never a perfect site but we can make the best of what we are given,” say the API designers who aim to engage communities and ensure play areas are in tune with their locality, environment, built or rural, urban or village and contribute to it and enhance it. Parts of that apply to designing this play area on a flat grass and paved showground site – as is demonstrated. This includes building mounds, adding, shrubs trees and boulders and converting roadways to paths and seating areas.


Play Time in Stoneleigh


Excitement building for SMP product launch at Play Fair


Playfair 2010 Preview


Welcome to the UK's most important and dynamic trade exhibition aimed at the outdoor children's play and safety surfacing industry. The exhibition is fully supported by the API (Association of Play Industries) and takes place at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry on 22nd & 23rd June 2010.


PlayFair is unique in that it's the only outdoor event that is totally dedicated to this important industry sector. Visitors from the public sector and those from the private sector interested in installing play equipment can register free of charge.


At PlayFair visitors can see and network with all the major outdoor children's play equipment companies at one time and place... And it's free to visit with free parking! Over 200 local school


children are invited to the site to test out the latest equipment over the two days, so you can see it all in action! With live working demonstrations and a new product feature area "Playful Places", PlayFair 2010 is a must to visit!


Why Visit?


As a visitor you will be able to see everything in one place and in a true-to-life environment. The concentration of sports, play and amenity equipment on display offers you a time effective way to keep up to date and assess all the equipment


available, including the latest in: * Safer Surfaces * Natural Play * Generation Play * Techno Play


PlayFair is designed in particular for: * Local government officers from parks & leisure departments


* Head teachers, school governors & sports teachers


* Leisure play and housing departments * Parish councils * Community group organisers * Designers * Landscape architects * Freelance play designers * Buyers from the leisure and private sectors


A day at PlayFair will allow you to see and discuss first- hand the next generation of equipment, and provide the best possible services for your community. This highly focused, two-day live event will be packed with FREE seminars, displays, demonstrations, trade stands and the central PlayFair Feature Playful Places.


New play area in Foulridge, Lancashire for Pendle Council


Russell Play have recently completed the installation of an exciting new ‘natural play area’ at Alma Avenue at Foulbridge, Lancashire. The new play facilities are to cater for both toddler and junior play and also have to comply with the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act. Russell Play saw this as a


great opportunity to use the new “Spielart” Robinia timber range of equipment, as it is perfectly suited to this type of natural and rural environment. The selected play equipment includes a themed playhouse with multiple activities for the younger age group, and also a set of toddler swings and some spring animals. The client’s brief also requested some challenging and exciting units suitable for older children, so a basket swing and a cable ride were included as well. The centrepiece of the site is a “Cosmo” rope and stainless steel space net with a banister slide and ‘duck jibe’ spinner. The play area was completed with wetpour surfacing and colourful play graphics, together with seating for parents and carers.


Russell Play Click here to request literature


Excitement is building at SMP as the launch of 3 dynamic new playground products at this year’s Play Fair draws closer.


Look out for the striking


VIPER rope swing, a must for any park or large outdoor space that draws all ages to play together, interacting with each other to learn cooperation and build community relationships. TITAN is an amazing


fairground style ride, it’s surprising and exhilarating with multiple activities; hanging, sitting, standing and pulling mean kids of all


abilities can join in, all you need is a sense of adventure… MIRAGE is a truly inclusive


roundabout with a difference, it offers a secure ‘out of your wheel chair’ ride using the unique SMP removable harness for those who need it and a fun, seated roundabout ride with a difference for those who don’t. Visit us at Stand A2, just by the entrance for the ride of your life! If you can’t make it to Play Fair call us on 0845 260 1655 for more information.


SMP Playgrounds Click here to request literature Seminar Programme


In addition to the exhibits on display there will be a FREE two-day seminar programme. Association of Play Industries (API) seminars will cover; consultation, procurement, design and build, and maintenance. All seminars provide plenty of opportunity for questions, discussions and exchanges of information and experience. In 2009 they were packed and 'standing room only' so taking a seat early this year is strongly advised.


Opening Times Tues 22nd June


Wed 23rd June


9.30am - 5.00pm 9.30am - 4.30pm


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