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.
Portfolio
How do we work?
The projects represented here cover some of our work in parks, residential estates, designated play spaces, schools and nurseries.
PLAYLINK
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.
WORKSHOPS
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.
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.
BLUEPRINT
DESIGN
Children and teenagers being seen and heard in shared public space are the hallmarks of a society at ease with itself.
Contacts
How to Find Us?
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