Working in close partnership with Groundwork West London, Visible Changes has been key in helping develop and create the award winning Groundwork Playscape project over the past twelve months.

The project has featured at the External Works Event in Birmingham and recently won both GOLD and the BBC peoples Award at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. Groundwork and Visible Changes were recently joined by Play England to help endorse and promote the project and illustrate that play environments in the UK should be both challenging, innovative and contain a degree of ‘reasonable’ risk.

The Playscape story began with a scribble on a beer mat and moved swiftly on to some fairly challenging meetings, which sought to confront ingrained perceptions of ‘play’. Adam White, Principal Landscape Architect at Groundwork West London said:

“Without the support and practical construction knowledge of Visible Changes the Groundwork Playscape project would have simply not happened. It has been a pleasure to have worked on such an innovative project with such a forward thinking contractor. During award assessment the RHS judges commented on both the imaginative design concept and the degree of high quality construction throughout the space”

One important point to note is that Visible Changes along with Groundwork are not dismissive of traditional play equipment such as swings and slides; these are still hugely popular in children’s play. However they do believe that children have the right to play in exciting and challenging environments offering the freedom to use their own imagination.

Over the next two months Visible Changes, Groundwork West London and Play England will be working together to bring the Groundwork Playscape project to the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show and the IOG Saltex Windsor Race Course Show (tbc).