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From Sketchbook to Scale Model: A Week of Work Experience
Our latest work experience student turned hand sketches into a hand-built scale model, working through an accessible play structure concept design in a week.

June Highlights
A month of sparks, saw dust, and an exciting windowed slide ready for site. Plus a peek at what's going on behind the scenes...

May Highlights
A busy few weeks on site, in the workshop and online. A new playground complete in Salford, a video feature, and some fresh thinking on why Robinia keeps finding its way into great playgrounds.

Why Designers Specify Robinia: Colour, Behaviour, and the Long Game
Landscape architects and playground designers choose Robinia for reasons that go beyond durability. Here's how it shapes behaviour, ages beautifully, and gives designers more creative freedom.

April Highlights
A mix of revisiting familiar spaces, getting new designs out the door, and sharing a bit more about what we do. We even caught a bit of sunshine along the way, which is always welcome!

Why Robinia is Perfect for Play
Robina doesn’t try to be perfect, and that’s exactly why it works so well for play. Durable., long-lasting and naturally full of character, it creates spaces children are drawn to explore.

Robinia playgrounds for every space
From robust, low-maintenance equipment to fully bespoke layouts, Robinia playgrounds bring natural beauty, durability, and creative play to parks, estates, and community spaces.

Islington Park Playground, Salford
A new playground for Islington Park in Salford featuring a custom 8 tower configuration of our Steel Lamba Play Unit range, packed with play features and complimented by inclusive swings.

March Highlights
Spring has well and truly sprung, even if the weather is still typically Mancunian with sideways sleet, driving rain and lovely blue skies that occasionally join us, but the temperamental weather hasn’t dampened the spirits here at Massey & Harris HQ.

June Highlights
A month of sparks, saw dust, and an exciting windowed slide ready for site. Plus a peek at what's going on behind the scenes...

From Sketchbook to Scale Model: A Week of Work Experience
Our latest work experience student turned hand sketches into a hand-built scale model, working through an accessible play structure concept design in a week.

What Makes a Great Playground?
A Guide to Designing Inclusive, Exciting, and High-Value Play Spaces.

The Massey & Harris Design Philosophy
Read about our Design Process and how we create amazing playspaces

Our Design Process
At Massey & Harris, every design starts with curiosity and ends with delight. Whether we’re creating a full play scheme, a bespoke item, or a new product, our process ensures we solve the right challenge in the right way.

Design your own Roundabout Top
Have a great idea for a roundabout and want to make it a reality? Get in touch with us to make it happen.
Make the most of your PE & Sport Premium funding
Discover practical ways to use your PE & Sport Premium for outdoor play and fitness. Download our free guide with ideas, examples and design inspiration for schools.
Balance Trails: combining fitness and fun
Engaging trim trail circuits that boost balance, coordination and agility while encouraging outdoor play.
Fitness Trails: promoting strength, health and activity
Turn your space into an outdoor gym! Our Fitness Trails combine strength, balance, and coordination challenges to keep everyone active and engaged.

Turn Budget Underspend into Community Play
As the financial year draws to a close, our most popular playground essentials are available for express delivery, supporting councils to maximise remaining budgets and deliver visible community outcomes.

Massey & Harris 2026 in Colour
2026 in Colour is our guide to using colour in play spaces, setting out how colour can shape play behaviour, experience, and inclusion across our equipment. Informed by the RAL COLOUR FEELING 2026+ trends and grounded in real playground design.

Say hello to our new look!
We reveal our new branding!

Join Our Team
Want to create amazing playgrounds? We're always on the lookout for amazing people who can help us contribute to the world of play.

Introducing our Rendering Service
Do you require compelling graphics to sell your dream and vision? Let us help with that.

Introducing our new website - Massey & Harris 2.0
Launching our new website was a culmination of months of development and design and puts our product front and centre.

March Highlights
Spring has well and truly sprung, even if the weather is still typically Mancunian with sideways sleet, driving rain and lovely blue skies that occasionally join us, but the temperamental weather hasn’t dampened the spirits here at Massey & Harris HQ.

April Highlights
A mix of revisiting familiar spaces, getting new designs out the door, and sharing a bit more about what we do. We even caught a bit of sunshine along the way, which is always welcome!

May Highlights
A busy few weeks on site, in the workshop and online. A new playground complete in Salford, a video feature, and some fresh thinking on why Robinia keeps finding its way into great playgrounds.







































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