Badger Play Tower

Brown Bear Play Tower

The Brown Bear Play Tower is the flagship of the ESP timber tower range a multi-tower structure designed to serve large numbers of children simultaneously, with the capacity and variety to anchor an entire playground scheme.

Three towers, one connected play landscape

Built around three pitched-roof towers linked by elevated bridges and walkways, the Brown Bear creates a continuous circuit of play at height. Children can move between towers, choose their own routes and revisit the structure again and again without exhausting its possibilities. High throughput makes it particularly well suited to busy primary school playgrounds and public parks where large groups play together at once.

Multiple access and descent challenges

Access is deliberately varied: a cargo climbing net, ladder-style climbers, and stepped access give children graduated levels of physical challenge, allowing them to build confidence and progress at their own pace. Descent options include an open straight slide and an enclosed spiral tube slide, offering contrasting sensations, one open and social, the other enclosed and thrilling.

Breadth of play value

The Brown Bear supports physical, imaginative, social and cooperative play in a single structure. Net climbing develops grip strength, coordination and whole-body control; bridges and elevated decks build balance and spatial awareness; sheltered tower spaces invite role play and quiet retreat; and the scale of the structure naturally encourages children to negotiate, take turns and play together.

Built to last, UK manufactured

Constructed from laminated timber and manufactured in the UK, the Brown Bear is engineered for stability and longevity. Laminated sections resist the warping and splitting common to solid timber, keeping maintenance requirements low and total cost of ownership down. Its modular construction means components can be specified to suit your site and every Brown Bear is manufactured in full compliance with the applicable playground safety standards.

Mud Kitchen Corner Style 7 is a durable and engaging outdoor play unit designed specifically for early years and nursery settings. Created to support creative, sensory, and imaginative play, this thoughtfully designed mud kitchen encourages children to explore, experiment, and learn through hands-on outdoor experiences.

Featuring a themed kitchen design, this Mud Kitchen includes realistic play elements such as an oven, hob, and washing machine, helping to inspire role play and real-world understanding. The unit is fitted with four stainless steel bowls, providing multiple opportunities for mixing, pouring, and exploring different textures and materials. These bowls are hard-wearing, easy to clean, and perfectly suited for busy early years environments.

Manufactured from high-quality laminated timber, this mud kitchen is built to withstand regular outdoor use while maintaining its strength and appearance over time. The robust construction ensures long-lasting performance, and the product is supplied with a lengthy guarantee, offering reassurance and excellent value for nurseries, schools, and early years providers.

Mud Kitchen Corner Style 7 is ideal for group play and collaborative activities, helping children develop communication and language skills as they play together, share ideas, and engage in imaginative storytelling. It provides a versatile play experience, allowing practitioners to tailor activities to learning outcomes and children’s interests.

While traditionally associated with mud, this unit is suitable for use with a wide range of loose materials, including bark, gravel, sand, stones, and natural resources. This flexibility supports sensory exploration and creative learning throughout the year, whatever the setting or season.

Proudly manufactured in the UK by ESP PLAY, Mud Kitchen Corner Style 7 reflects high standards of quality, safety, and craftsmanship. It is the perfect addition to early years and nursery play areas, helping to spark imagination and support learning through play in an inclusive and engaging outdoor environment.

The Woodpecker Play Tower from ESP is a twin-tower climbing structure built to deliver high-energy, imaginative play in busy public spaces and to keep delivering it season after season.

Two pitched-roof towers sit side by side, linked by a rope bridge that gives younger climbers their first real test of balance and nerve. Getting up there is half the fun. A timber staircase with handrails offers an easy, confidence-building route for less-adventurous children, while a vertical climbing ladder, an angled rope scramble net and a chain net wall give bolder users a genuine physical challenge. The descent is handled by a wide, high-sided polyethylene slide, with coloured panels adding visual interest and defining sheltered den space beneath the decks.

Every structural component is produced from laminated timber. Unlike solid round timber, laminated sections are engineered for dimensional stability, resisting the twisting, splitting and warping that shorten the working life of conventional play equipment. The result is a unit that holds its appearance and its structural integrity under continuous public use, with lower maintenance demands across its lifespan.

The Woodpecker is manufactured in the UK, giving specifiers shorter lead times, direct technical support and full traceability of materials. It is fully compliant with BS EN 1176, the European safety standard for playground equipment, and is supplied with the documentation required for inspection and sign-off.

Designed for local authority parks, school playgrounds, nurseries and residential development open space, the Woodpecker Play Tower suits schemes where durability, compliance and play value all have to be evidenced. It works equally well as a standalone centrepiece or as the anchor of a wider play area.

Contact ESP to discuss specification, surfacing options, installation and site-specific layouts.

Fox Play Tower

The Fox Play Tower is a dynamic, climbing-led timber structure built for children who want to test themselves. With two slides, multiple net and rope challenges and a linked deck arrangement, it delivers high-energy, repeatable play for schools, parks and public open spaces.

Two slides, two routes down

A key feature of the Fox is its twin slide arrangement, descents from separate points on the structure, allowing two children to slide at once and keeping the flow of play moving at peak times. It removes the bottleneck that single-slide structures create at break and lunchtime, and gives children a reason to circulate rather than queue.

Climbing challenge at its core

The Fox is built around varied climbing challenge. Cargo netting, rope traverses, ladder access and stepped entry points each demand something different, grip strength, whole-body coordination, balance, planning. Children can pick the route that matches their confidence today and progress to a harder one as they develop. That graduated difficulty is what keeps a structure interesting over months and years rather than weeks.

Broad play value

Beyond the physical, the Fox supports imaginative play within its sheltered roofed tower, social play as children negotiate routes and take turns, and cooperative play as they encourage and coach one another through the harder climbs. Elevated decks and open sightlines give children somewhere to pause, watch and take stock an underrated part of how children actually use play equipment.

UK manufactured from laminated timber

The Fox is constructed from laminated timber and manufactured in the UK. Laminated sections resist the warping, twisting and splitting associated with solid timber, holding their form through years of weather exposure and heavy use. The result is limited maintenance, lower whole-life costs and a genuinely long service life. Modular construction allows the configuration to suit your site, and every Fox Play Tower is manufactured in full compliance with applicable playground safety standards.