Sutcliffe Play

Sutcliffe Play

Recreational Facilities

The UK’s first employee-owned playground designer/manufacturer, committed to inclusive play, and fun! #MadeinBritain.

About us

Through creativity, innovation, and conviction, Sutcliffe Play produces play spaces and equipment that create lifelong memories – because no one ever forgets their favourite playground. We are an innovative global business - designing and manufacturing in the UK, and exporting worldwide. But we’re also 100% unique in our sector: as Britain’s first and only employee-owned play company, we’re proud of the fact that when you pick up the phone to us, you won’t just be speaking to an employee, but an owner. That means we all have a vested interest in delivering total quality – we all benefit from our success, so we all work hard to achieve it. Our robust products are all made in Britain, from metal, wood, and other natural materials. With our design and manufacturing capabilities, here in our own factory in the beating heart of Yorkshire, England, we bring play ideas to life from the simplest sketch. We design to encourage creativity, leaving as much as possible to children’s imaginations, and encourage our design team to build in an element of risk, always ensuring a stimulating, challenging experience – because child’s play is a serious business. We believe passionately in inclusive play, giving ALL children the right to share in the timeless joy of a great play experience, and the many benefits it brings: physical health, heightened learning, social development - and for parents: community cohesion and regeneration. Above all, at Sutcliffe Play we are guided always by four words which sum up the essence of childhood - play for play’s sake.

Industry
Recreational Facilities
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Pontefract
Type
Public Company
Founded
1905
Specialties
Outdoor Play Equipment, Playground Equipment, Play Spaces, and UK Manufacturer

Locations

Employees at Sutcliffe Play

Updates

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    🎥🎞 New here? Watch our company video today, setting out exactly who we are, how we work, and why we love what we do - as told by members of our very own team! 💚😁 🌈 Through creativity, innovation and conviction, Sutcliffe Play contribute to the enjoyment and experience of children through play. We specialise in creating tailor-made, bespoke, outdoor play space solutions, and successful play environments 🤸♀️🛝 💯 We’re 100% unique in our sector – as the UK’s first employee-owned playground equipment manufacturer, everybody you talk to in our business is an owner AND a partner, with a vested interest in delivering total quality, and exceeding our customers’ expectations ✅ 📜 Our proud heritage dates back over 100 years, and since the mid-1990s we’ve been well-established as a market leader in the design and production of swing seats 🏆 🔧 We’re so proud that every Sutcliffe Play product is made right here in our purpose-built factory in the heart of Yorkshire, and of the fact that we’re members of Made in Britain – an organisation that brings together the best of the British manufacturing community 🔴 🔵 ⚪ 🧑🦽We believe passionately in ‘inclusive play’, and we achieve this in an invisible way, allowing all children to discover and extend their own boundaries while playing side-by-side 😊 🥳 You've heard a little about us, but now we'd love to hear all about you - so don't delay, get in touch today! It's time to Ready, Set, Play! ⏰ Call 01977 653200 📞 Visit our website at https://lnkd.in/e53aXH_z 💻 Or DM us right now, we'd love to hear from you! 😊💚

  • 🤝💥 WE’RE HIRING! 💥🤝 😎 Start the New Year in style – with a new job! 💚 At Sutcliffe Play we’re proud of our brilliant team, who work hard to design and manufacture fantastic play spaces across the country – and now we’re looking for a talented Graduate Product Designer to join the fun! 🙌 The main duties of this office-based role will be creating engineering drawings, delivering design models, producing CNC programmes for factory machines, and supporting the overall product design process, with opportunities to create new concepts and designs. 🧠 The ideal candidate will have completed a degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, Design Engineering, or have another design related degree. Practical knowledge of drilling, sawing, steel/metal fabrication and other workshop practices, as well as a creative mindset and a willingness to learn new software, are also desirable for this role. 🤝 Click here to find out more, and how to apply: https://lnkd.in/dBPTQ3Y

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    💚 Absolutely fantastic to see someone who's worked so hard to further the cause of children's #play receive the recognition they deserve! 🤝 We were delighted last year when Marguerite agreed to come and speak to our Home Show visitors about the tireless work of Play Scotland, and we saw first hand her tireless dedication and passion for advancing the rights of children to access safe, challenging, fulfilling play, wherever they live. 🥳 Richly deserved, huge congratulations Marguerite Hunter Blair!

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    Play Scotland Chief Executive, Marguerite Hunter Blair, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list. Hunter Blair has received the honour for services to Play, Learning and Health. Play Scotland said the award recognises Hunter Blair’s tireless work to ensure every child’s right to play Hunter Blair began her career in play while working in Community Services for Belfast City Council, where she studied for and completed a diploma in Managing and Developing Play Provision. In total, she spent 15 years with Belfast City Council, before being appointed Chief Executive of Playboard Northern Ireland. She then joined Play Scotland 19 years ago. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e3ng9gbV #OBE #Play #PlaySector #NewYearHonours #Honours

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  • 🙌 Sutcliffe Play isn't just a leading play equipment manufacturer, we’re also proud to be both a founder and current active member of the Association of Play Industries (API), now in its 41st year of promoting the cause of children’s play across the UK! 🥳 🙌 As well as being the leading play sector trade body, campaigning hard to promote good play space design at the highest levels, the API also ensures members have the necessary experience, financial status, compliance, and quality of workmanship to provide play equipment to customers. 🤝 We’re honoured to be associated with the API, and our standout team reflects its high standards every day 💚 #play #playtime #playequipment #api

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  • 🎊 New Year, new look! 🥳 😎 Our profile’s feeling fresher than ever after a #2025 makeover, and this year, we can't wait to do the same for a play space near you! 💪 With decades of experience in the play sector, our huge range of exciting, inclusive equipment can be found in playgrounds across the country, and delivers thrilling play opportunities to children of all ages and abilities every day. 🤝 Our knowledgeable, open and friendly team, from sales to design to manufacturing, is standing by to bring your play vision to life, and deliver a healthier, happier, more playful community for everyone. Best of all, we’re just a phone call away! 🏃♀️ Start 2025 in the best possible way - get in touch with Sutcliffe Play today! 📞 01977 653200 💻 https://lnkd.in/e53aXH_z

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  • ⏰ 2025 is almost here! 🎉 😁 Like everyone, we can’t wait to find out what this new year has to offer, but first we’re taking a moment to look back over the last 12 months – even if they seemed to zip along faster than one of our cableways! 🙌 2024 was a truly bumper year for Sutcliffe Play. We completed another diverse range of ambitious projects (too many to list here!), giving children across the UK something they didn’t have a year ago – an exciting, challenging new local play space to call their own. 💪 But the fun didn’t stop there. We also found the time to hold another highly informative Home Show, and introduce a brilliant range of new products. We also bolstered our team with a host of exciting new recruits, all of whom are already helping to take Sutcliffe Play to the next level. Whilst none of us knows what 2025 will hold, after such a strong year, we’re thrilled that the future is looking brighter than ever! 😎 💚 We hope you enjoy our brand-new video below, reminiscing on just a handful of the wonderful projects our brilliant colleagues and clients have completed throughout 2024 - 12 for 12 months. 🎊🥂 Here’s to a happy, safe, healthy and prosperous 2025 for all! See you on the other side! 💥🎊 #newyear #2025 #celebrate #fun #memories #happynewyear #happynewyear2025

  • 🎅🎄 The big day's nearly here! 🎄🎅 😃 (Is it just us, or does it get earlier every year?!) 🥳 Either way, it's time for the fabulous Sutcliffe Play team to hang up our things, leave the elves in charge and close our doors for a hard-earned #Christmas break! 💚 We wish all of our customers, colleagues and clients a fantastic, fun-packed festive season full of joy and laughter - no time of year is better for unleashing the playful instinct that lurks within all of us! 🙌 We’ll be back on Thursday 2nd January, 2025, to begin another year of bringing the gift of play to countless more children! But right now, we’d say we’ve earned a mince pie… 🎁🎉 Merry Christmas, one and all! 🎊🎄 #fun #festive #holiday #break #christmas2024 #xmas

  • 🙌 Fancying a cosy trip to Lapland this festive season? Or maybe you’re missing the summer sunshine and the glorious green spaces? Either way, now you no longer have to choose! 🍄❄ With 2 juxtaposing themes, our Mushroom Igloo unit offers 14 play features set around a central 1.2m tower, including a slide and an inclusive climbing ramp with side transfer platform. Budding travellers can enter one of its access points through a mushroom forest on one side, and emerge into a snowy tundra on the other - or vice versa! 🌞⛄️ Summer sensation and winter wonderland in one, Mushroom Igloo is a double dose of themed fun, and a perfect fit for any playground, whatever the weather! 💻 https://lnkd.in/e38G7STt #festive #christmas #snow #playground #madeinbritain #fun #holiday

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