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Our activities encompass

consultancy and learning

risk issues

design and implementation

voluntary sector management and governance

advice and information

policy and briefing papers

Welcome to PLAYLINK

WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT

company based in the UK.

We are a firm of consultants, advisors, designers and advocates focused on the creation and maintenance  of shared communal and public places. We work across a variety of settings: general public realm, parks, social and mixed tenure housing, and specialist provision such as schools and children centres.

We champion the right of children and teenagers to be full participants in such democratic spaces. The pivotal word here is ‘shared’ – for one cannot attend to the rights of young people in isolation from the needs and rights of the wider community.

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How do we work?

The projects represented here cover some of our work in parks, residential estates, designated play spaces, schools and nurseries.

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CONSULTANCY

WE FULFIL CONSULTANCY and advisory roles across a broad range of areas.

Our expertise is drawn from across all sectors: statutory, voluntary, community, and commercial.

We act as advisors on risk issues in particular as they affect children and teenagers’ play and recreation.
We are active across settings: parks, schools, playgrounds, housing estates and streets.
We support design practices by scoping and critiquing projects.
We act as independent ‘critical friends’.
We support the professional development of design practitioners across specialities.

Our work with the voluntary sector focuses on governance and the strategic direction of organisations.
We undertake independent evaluations and reviews.

WORKSHOPS

RISK BENEFIT ASSESSMENT

RISK-BENEFIT ASSESSMENT, unlike conventional risk assessment, aims to balance an assessment of the potential benefits of an activity with the potential risks associated with it.

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DESIGN FOR PEOPLE

HISTORICALLY, PLAY PROVISION in parks, housing estates and schools too often amounted to little more than the purchase of manufactured play equipment and surrounding it with a fence.

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

BLUEPRINT

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

We believe that play environments should be beautiful, individually designed, should please and stimulate the senses, and be sources of delight and surprise.

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DESIGN

Children and teenagers being seen and heard in shared public space are the hallmarks of a society at ease with itself.

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