Play & Activity September 2020

Zaun fencing used to provide football facilities

Suffolk based football team Beccles Town FC have been congratulated on an ‘amazing achievement’, with the installation of a state-of-the-art full size 3G pitch at the club.

Peterborough based Plant Fencing Contractors installed Zaun Super Rebound sports fencing around the perimeter of the pitch and Spectator Rail at pitch side. Super Rebound, forms an extremely robust perimeter around any pitch, that not only increases ball retention, but also vastly improved the gameplay experience.

Zaun Super Rebound sports fencing also includes EPDM inserts, which reduces noise to the surrounding areas of balls hitting the fencing by roughly 29%.

The new facility, which cost £770,000 and aided by a £598,000 grant fron the Football Foundation was officially

opened by former Norwich City midfielder Adrian Forbes.

Forbes cut the ribbon at the 97m x 61m pitch at The Nest, the home ground of Anglian Combination Division One members Beccles Town FC.

The install was completed and used primarily for the club’s under 16s and under 17 players. Beccles Town FC run four adult teams including a ladies’ team and 24 youth teams, which provide football facilities for around 350 youngsters.

Suffolk FA Chief Executive Richard Neal: “This is an amazing achievement for a club like Beccles Town to have a facility like this. We hope it will not be only life-changing for the players involved in the club now but in the future and for the whole town.”

Sadolin brightened up summer for schoolchildren

Leading specialist woodcare brand Sadolin brought a splash of colour to the great outdoors for the pupils of St Georges CE Primary School in Bromley, Kent last summer.

The colourful playground was the brainchild of TV gardener Danny Clarke, with Orpington Crown Decorating Centre donating 12 litres of Sadolin Superdec, an opaque, water-based woodcare paint that offers vibrant colours and lasting protection.

A team of volunteers applied the paint in an eye-catching repeating stripe pattern, using light blue, pink, orange, yellow, purple and white colours – all from Sadolin Superdec’s core colour collection – on the playground’s wooden picket fence, the timber that forms the raised beds in the school’s garden, and even on recycled tyres that the school used as planters.

The use of colour was key to the vision of the project, which looked to transform a dreary

outdoor space into a stimulating and fun science garden where the children of St Georges can learn as well as play, long into the future. This made Sadolin Superdec the ideal choice, thanks to its high pigmentation and choice of over 300 colours.

The choice of Sadolin Superdec for this project is part of an uptake in the popularity of opaque woodstains, as shown in industry sales data from the British Coatings Federation (BCF). This is driven by the trend for using vibrant colours outdoors, itself an extension of the trend for ‘feature walls’ and the like indoors.

What’s more, the newly decorated playground will stand the test of time: Sadolin Superdec creates a solid colour finish which is weather resistant to UV light and water – meaning long-lasting colour retention.

Commenting on the project, Sharon Smith, Sadolin brand manager, said: “The variety of

contrasting and complementary colours used in the project utterly transformed the outdoor space, and shows what an impact the use of an opaque woodstain can have.

“The school was looking for a vibrantly-coloured woodstain which would be suitable for a variety of surfaces, including

both new and weathered timber, and Sadolin Superdec’s formulation means that it provides a superior finish on almost any wooden surface. The product will stand the test of time meaning that successive year groups will be able to enjoy this colourful space in the future.”

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eibe unveils its latest deer-themed play scheme

Having opened officially at the end of July, the playground courtesy of Warnham Parish Council is situated in West Sussex, slightly north of Horsham in the pretty village of Warnham.

Working alongside the Clerk to the Council, Ashley Brooks, the eibe team worked hard n the £65,000 project to ensure that it was open to the public in time for the school holiday.

Located near the popular deer park, it was decided to give the play area a cervine theme, so various products were created especially for Warnham.

There are deer footprints dotted around the surfacing, as well as deer rockers and some deerrelated play panels.

The centre-piece of the park is the bespoke Elmer Unit, where several children can play together at the same time and utilise the extra wide slide.

urrounding the main unit is a Stand-up Seesaw, a minimondo Tulip and robinia Balance Beam course, offering a fabulous mixture of activities to promote well-being and athleticism. eibe

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