Testimonials

Thank you Playground Centre, as a key contractor for this project, you have helped us create an awesome place to play. Your bespoke play equipment, such as the epic lighthouse slide tower, shipwreck, 50m flying fox and Floor is Lava challenge are so popular, and by peppering in your inclusive equipment and games, the new playground has a wide range of options for different ages, abilities, sizes, and interests. It's been amazing seeing everyone playing together, having a wonderful time, building strength and fitness, and creating memories.

Thank you so much for helping us create something really important and needed for our locals and visitors.

We are absolutely thrilled with the result.

CPlay

Caroline Bay Playground, Timaru District Council

I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for all your help and patience with the Awanui playground project. Our team and more importantly the kids are absolutely wrapped with the finished product. "The bomb" from one of the local kids!

Fauna Gregory

Awanui Playground

Playground centre were amazing to work with the whole process of Memorial park. They took our ideas from the design phase and came up with a concept that told the stories of the park and took the poppy theme throughout the design.

They were right on time with manufacturing the structure and install was on time as well.

Looking at the design on paper looked just like what they constructed.

Also one great thing we have found with playground Centre is their back up service on their work and product.

Glen Finlayson

Parks Project Officer, Palmerston North City Council

What impressed me about Tania Osborne of Playground Centre was that she quickly listened to and learnt what the community wanted, and delivered a design concept that fitted the brief. Our community, supported by Council, wanted our District’s flagship playground to have points of difference, with a rural and rustic theme, fitting the character of Feilding being the Agri-business centre of the Lower North Island. Our community is excited by the new playground. Thank you Tania and Playground Centre.

Michael Ford

Deputy Mayor, Manawatu District Council

Tania and the team at the Playground Centre have been an absolute delight to work with. They are accommodating, proactive and exceedingly customer focussed, all of which have contributed to us delivering highly successful projects for our Council clients.  It’s been great working with such helpful and knowledgeable playground specialists, and we look forward to working together on more fun projects in the future.

Kirsten Dovey

Urban Solutions

Tania continues to be a wonderful advocate for play, all dealings are professional and she is quick to find an answer for you! Always positive and accommodating!

Kieran Smith

Lead Assets/Cemeteries

‘Tania and Playground Centre have helped me many times over the years in supplying play equipment for parks projects that I have been working on. Tania is always quick to respond, positive, and friendly. She always puts forward a few options and makes the process easy, even if the project changes. I would really recommend working with Tania and Playground Centre. I also like that the company are local and they work out of their Whanganui office and workshop.’

Charlotte Grieve - Landscape Architect

Thomas Consultants

During my tenure as a Parks Officer with the Horowhenua District Council (HDC) we engaged Playground Centre to install the Classic 902 modular playset at Solway Park, Levin. 

Engagement was based on previous consultation with Tania Osborne during a routine council visit where she set an excellent example for your company. Her product knowledge, professionalism and communication meant that we decided to work with Playground Centre.

Once HDC had settled on a set of parameters to be incorporated into the new playground Tania quickly provided us with a number of modular playsets that fit our criteria, making our decision making process for final design simple and time efficient.

Provision of documentation and installer timeframes was completed swiftly, meaning that we were able to quickly provide a patient community with a finished product in a way that reflected positively on HDC, your installer, Playground Centre and in particular Tania.

I would have no hesitation in recommending other customers work with Tania and have passed on positive feedback for the Playground Centre as a result of the work that she put in to make sure the job was completed on time and within budget.

Ben Wood

Horowhenua District Council

I was referred here by the Tararua District Council. They said that you guys are great to deal with and have real solid products and service.

Clayton Locke

Totara College Dannevirke

Huge congrats Playground Centre, it looks amazing and the kids clearly love it!

Lisa Whinnen

Variety – the Children’s Charity NSW/ACT

i saw your presentation on inclusive play – it was great! Very informative and easy to digest, thanks! Look forward to learning more.

Olivia Ward

Red Box Design Group

My experience with the Playground Centre has been exciting.  Being new in my role I can only speak highly of the Playground Centre team.

Our project manager was a great help all Health and Safety items were run professionally and arranged and liaised with Numat, our choice for under surfacing supply and installation.

The peace of mind provided by their service made the whole project and enjoyable and worry free and I have continued to use their services because of this.”

Jane Morrison

Timaru District Council

I would recommend Playground Centre for any school that is looking to improve their playground area. They were fast to send initial quotes and designs, and happy to relook and adjust numerous times until we had a good balance of our grand ideas and our actual budget! They enabled us to get an amazing result, incorporating some of our existing playground, getting our parent community together to be part of the install and the children to help create their own playground. It was wonderful to see everyone come together and help create this playground. The kids love it.

Lauren Kennedy

Fundraising Committee

The Xtreme 557 fitness playground is an absolute hit with our senior students! They are all over it during break time and play a chase game as well as the usual swinging, climbing and monkeying around. Playground Centre has been very supportive throughout the process, from the first visit to introduce their products through to fundraising suggestions, and the formal paperwork including engineering specifications. We have appreciated working with them to modernise our play area for the senior students, and are thrilled with the playground.

Helen Howden

Board of Trustees, West Melton School

I would like to express my gratitude to the team at Playground Centre for the service, Knowledge and Experience I received during the design and build project at the Aotea Lagoon Playground, your company has also showed these great skills on other projects within Porirua City. Great problem solving skills and good open communication.

Thanks for the great service, Playground designs and high quality playground equipment keep it up.

Jethro Mullen

Porirua City Council

As usual I found dealing with the staff and contractors from the Playground Centre to be easy and convenient. The $200,000 project was ‘headlined’ by a Playground Centre designed and built light house tower. The design reflected the marine environment and replicated the old playground that was removed to make way for the new development.

The Playground Centre was flexible throughout the whole process and delivered a quality and innovative product that will be there for many years to come; in the harshest of environments.

I would have no hesitation in recommending the Playground Centres playgrounds to any local authority wanting a high quality and playable playground.

Craig Cottrill

Reserves Asset Manager, Hutt City Council

Playground Centre were engaged by Tauranga City Council to design a playground that would create an experience for all ages of children and encourage parents to visit the Tauranga CBD with their children. Playground Centre delivered a quality and outstanding play feature, on time and on budget that has surpassed councils expectations of use and attraction.

Tony Bodger

Tauranga City Council

Hi there – I wanted to give you a BIG shout out to say “well done”! You have such fantastic, safe and fun play equipment. My boys (7 & 8) have been crawling, sliding, swinging and climbing all over the recently installed Playground Centre play equipment at Pharazyn Reserve (Waikanae Beach 5036). It looks great, seems pretty durable and you’ve also thought about those little things to make it extra safe e.g. covering the screw caps and chains.

The kids love it and a few adults too! I love how safe it is.

Just wanted to commend you on the design of an awesome, safe product!!

Ingrid Adams

Happy Mum!

At Sancta Maria College we wanted to provide an area of fun play and physical challenge for our older students. The age of the students presented a unique challenge – we had to ensure that the equipment was age appropriate and not perceived as “kids’ stuff” in order to avoid the risk of the area becoming unpopular and unused.

We conducted a lot of research on available solutions, including taking students out and physically testing the equipment. We found that the Xtreme Elite equipment from Playground Centre was the most challenging and engaging – especially the “Muscle Buster”. Our one concern was that we wanted more height in order to provide greater challenge for the students.

The team at Playground Centre were all too happy to accommodate our ideas – from early consultation, through to providing artwork renders for school presentations and even allowing us to alter the equipment design, height and colour to suit our school requirements.

The installation also provided some challenges, but the Playground Centre team and their contractors rose to the challenge and created a finished product that is exactly what we desired at the start of the process. We are very happy with the results.

Fiona Richardson

Fund Raising Co-ordinator, Sancta Maria College

Just a word of appreciation, after 6 months in Auckland on ‘grandmother duty’ I’m utterly impressed with the quality and imaginative design of your equipment. The Auckland City Council is agreat customer of yours and I’m pleased! My grandchildren enjoy your stuff so much and it’s relatively stress-free for the caregiver.

Frances Siddle

Happy Caregiver