Creating happier and healthier communities
UK Councils
Creating Happier & Healthier Communities
KOMPAN aims to assist UK councils in creating long-lasting and easy-to-maintain outdoor activity areas. Our products are designed with the user in mind, to promote hours of enjoyable activities that encourage play and fitness. We take pride in developing outdoor spaces that promote a strong sense of community, bringing together individuals of all ages and abilities.
We have worked with thousands of Parish and Town councils and local authorities throughout the UK, to develop outdoor activity areas tailored to their specific needs. We aim to provide immense value to the communities that surround them.
Playgrounds for parks & public spaces
At KOMPAN, we're dedicated to transforming parks into vibrant community engagement and joy hubs. Whether you need a new playground or refurbishing your old one, we are ready to help you. With over 50 years of experience, KOMPAN offers high-quality park playground equipment that makes your park or public space a meeting point for the community.
We support your playground dreams from start to finish, and our playground experts are ready to guide you to ensure your playground becomes a success.
Below, you can be inspired by some of our playgrounds built for communities worldwide. Some of them are inclusive playgrounds; some are custom playground structures. And some are more classic playgrounds with slides and swings.
Outdoor gym equipment for parks
An outdoor fitness site with the right type of equipment offers a free workout space for your community. It's a place to socialise and have fun. Paired with a playground, parents can workout while their children play on the playground.
Building an outdoor fitness site for your community can be challenging with the various outdoor gym equipment available. Our fitness experts are ready to guide and help you find the perfect outdoor gym.
Whether you want a callisthenics gym, an obstacle course around your park, or an outdoor gym focusing on accessibility, you will find inspiration in the fitness sites below.
Customer cases
Browse through some of our recent UK projects
Customer case
Buccaneer Bay, Dartford Borough Council
The leader of Dartford Borough Council, Councilor Jeremy Kite MBE was the driver of this huge playground refurbishment project (one of the best and largest that KOMPAN UK has been involved in). Dartford wanted to work with the best playground manufacturers and designers to fulfil the dreams of the leader and create a unique and immersive playground that would benefit the children of the borough for years to come.
Customer case
Telford Town Park
With this being the most used play area in the borough, Telford and Wrekin Council wanted to produce a bespoke themed and inclusive play space. The design for their flagship park needed to be accessible to all ages and abilities.
The KOMPAN design presented, reflected the local history of the area. This included a miniature version of the Telford Iron Bridge using a Corocord piece. Inclusive items including a roundabout, spinner bowl and trampoline were added, plus interactive play panels.
A New Standard - Designing Greener Playgrounds
Customer case
Voss Activity Park, Norway
Outdoor fitness with a fantastic view!
This activity park close to Vangsvatnet in Voss, Norway has quickly become the community’s preferred workout place and the heart of the town. The activity park is so well equipped that during Spring and Summer, the park is the go-to location for boot camp classes from the local fitness centre.
Customer Case
Withrow Park, Toronto, Canada
Withrow Park in Toronto, Canada proves that cooperation between KOMPAN, landscape architects, and municipalities results in great projects that make communities happier and healthier. It was a collaboration that was strengthened by considering the wants of the children themselves. The result? A revitalised park full of adventurous and innovative play; the perfect way to celebrate the start of Withrow Park’s second century.
Customer case
Covington City, Indiana, USA
When asked to draw their dream playground, the children of Covington put a castle at the top of their fun list. With a little help from KOMPAN's Robinia range, their wish was granted.
Customer case
Lincoln Park, Boston, USA
Boston, Massachusetts wanted to make sure that all residents lived a maximum of 10-minutes' walk away from their nearest recreational area. This goal has been achieved with the installation of Lincoln Park. Located in Somerville, this exciting and colourful playground offers locals respite from the surrounding urbanised environment. The densely populated area has limited space for outside activities, so creative solutions were needed to create a space where residents of all age groups could come together as a community.
Customer case
Active City Centre in Grindsted, Denmark
The municipality of Billund, Denmark wanted to breathe new life into the city centre by installing an attractive outdoor play area. The ambition was to increase footfall and extend the length of visitors' trips to the city, with hopes to bring in more custom for local businesses.
Customer case
Ramsden Park, Toronto, Canada
The landscape architect behind the new playground in Ramsden Park, Toronto, had a vision: to create something new and exciting whilst also incorporating the city’s heritage. The new playground uses yellow colours and themes from Toronto’s history of brick, and has maintained several of the timeless play items from their old KOMPAN playground, like the iconic Crazy Hen. After years of playful enjoyment in its former location, the first of the revolutionary springers is still in great shape and has become part of the new playground.
Latest news and research
A Design Checklist for Success with Inclusive Playgrounds
Equality in play – Survey on playground use in children with disabilities
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