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Aerial view of the finished community play garden, with a wooden play boat on safety surfacing, a sand pit and oak raised beds in a walled garden

Project

Let Them Play: a charity garden build for David Rees Holistic Learning

A complete outdoor space rebuilt in a single week by more than thirty tradespeople, free of charge . A five-metre waterfall and sensory garden, a resin-bound vegetable growing area, a soft-surfaced play area, mud kitchens, pathways, climbing equipment and sandpits.

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The brief

A complete rebuild of the outdoor space at David Rees Holistic Learning, a special educational needs setting in Gloucester, given free of charge for the children who use it.

A short film of the Let Them Play charity build, from groundwork to the finished play garden.

Gallery

Photographs

Wooden play boat with a sail mast on a sand pit in the walled play garden — The play boat and sand pit

Handmade timber mud kitchen with bowls and play pots against a painted woodland mural — The mud kitchen

Boulder rockery water feature with bark mulch and a sleeper bench in the play garden — The water feature

Oak sleeper raised beds beside a resin-bound path in the walled play garden — Resin-bound path and raised beds

Close view of the handmade timber mud kitchen in the play garden — Mud kitchen detail

Volunteers laying the boulder base of the water feature during the play garden build — Building the water feature

Two landscapers spreading and levelling the sub-base during the play garden build — Spreading the sub-base

Overhead view of volunteers laying a curved block-paving edge to the central play circle — Edging the play circle

Oak sleeper raised beds being built and filled at dusk during the play garden build — Raised beds going in

The Gardenscape crew and volunteer tradespeople on the build day in front of the charity banner — The build-day team

Result

A transformed outdoor learning and play space, rebuilt for the children at no cost to the setting.

Disciplines on this project

Related work

Garden design and build

Garden design and build

One firm to design your garden and build it, from survey and drawings through to the finished space.

Resin-bound driveways

Resin-bound driveways

Permeable resin-bound driveways laid on a sound base: SuDS-friendly and, on most homes, no planning needed.

Pondless waterfalls

Pondless waterfalls

A waterfall and stream with no open pool: the sound and movement of water, safe around children.

Fencing

Fencing

Garden, estate and bespoke fencing, including oak and feather-edge, built to stand up to the weather.

Planting and soft landscaping

Planting and soft landscaping

Planting schemes that suit the soil and the setting, planted to establish, not just to look good on handover day.

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