The Importance of Working with an API Accredited Playground Installer

The Everyday Play team are proud API members.

The Association of Play Industries (API) brings together accredited, independently vetted, and financially robust UK suppliers of playground equipment. Its members provide expert design and installation services, delivering high-quality play spaces that are safe, durable, and appropriately challenging for users.

All API members are required to meet stringent industry standards, including BSEN 1176, ensuring full compliance, safety, and consistent quality across every project.

Who are Association Of Play Industries (API)?

The Association of Play Industries (API) promotes best practice and high-quality play provision across the UK play industry. Its members include leading providers of playground and play facility design and installation for schools, parks, and holiday parks.

To achieve and maintain accreditation, members must adhere to the API Code of Conduct, which sets strict requirements for installation standards, equipment quality, and professional practice. Members are also regularly monitored and credit-checked to ensure ongoing financial stability.

In addition, API members are committed to delivering challenging, engaging play experiences while maintaining robust safety standards throughout design and installation.

Everyday Play are proud to be API members as accredited playground installers.

Alongside its Code of Conduct, the Association of Play Industries (API) sets out a clear framework of aims and objectives that all members are expected to uphold in order to retain their accreditation. These include promoting high standards in play space design, installation, and workmanship, as well as encouraging a deeper understanding of play value and managed risk.

The API also supports the ongoing development of British, European, and international safety standards, while working closely with both national and global organisations involved in play provision. Members are required to consistently comply with the Code of Conduct, helping to ensure accountability across the industry, and the association provides a unified voice for the play sector as a whole.

Benefits of choosing API-accredited playground installers

Working with an API-accredited installer allows you to focus on creating an engaging and imaginative play space, while having confidence in the quality and safety of the end result. Accreditation helps reduce the risks associated with poor workmanship, substandard equipment, or contractor instability.

Only current API members are permitted to use the official logo across their branding and communications, signifying verified quality and compliance. A full list of accredited installers is also available on the API website, making it easy to identify trusted providers.