Say Hello to Easy Playground Payments! 🎉

We’ve teamed up with Bluestone to help schools spread the cost of their new playground

over 1, 3, or 5 years!

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Bluestone, giving schools the opportunity to spread the cost of their new playground installation over 1, 3 or 5 years – making it easier than ever to bring engaging, high-quality outdoor spaces to life without the upfront financial burden.

How it Works

Through a finance lease agreement with Bluestone, your school can install a brand-new playground today and spread the cost over time. You choose the payment term that best suits your budget – with popular quarterly options available as standard, and monthly or annual options available on request. Once the agreement is in place, the process is straightforward here’s how it works:

We install your playground 🛠️
You confirm you're 100% happy with everything.
Your school starts making simple, fixed payments to Bluestone.

It’s that easy! No delays, no fuss, and your pupils are out enjoying their new space in no time.

Simple and Transparent Costs

There are no hidden fees or balloon payments. You pay:

A one-time documentation fee of £150, due with your first repayment.
A fixed number of lease payments as quoted (quarterly is most popular – but monthly and yearly are available too!).
A final £150 end-of-lease fee to retain ownership of the equipment.

That’s it.

Ownership Details

Technically, during the lease term, the equipment belongs to Bluestone. However, once your school makes the final £150 fee at the end of the agreement, full ownership transfers to you – no further costs, no returns required.

Your school deals directly with Bluestone for all financial aspects of the agreement. The Playground Company is not involved in managing payments, debt, or collections. Our focus is solely on delivering and installing the best possible playground for your school.

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Case Study

£700k

Finance for a Hockey Pitch: Radnor House

Radnor House Sevenoaks is a private co-educational school in Kent that caters to pupils aged 2-18 for Nursery to Sixth Form Education.

Radnor House is very active with its extracurricular sports activities and has hockey, football and cricket as core sports for all pupils. To effectively compete against other schools in the local area, Radnor House Sevenoaks School secured planning permission to build a state of the art FIH approved floodlit hockey pitch, and given ongoing capital expenditure programmes, a financing solution was deemed the most appropriate use of resources.

Alongside the sports pitch, the school was also keen to finance a further coach addition to the fleet used for school runs and sports transport, a company vehicle, and provision of Microsoft Surface devices to all Senior School pupils.

Challenge

Following acquisition in 2015, Radnor House Sevenoaks School has embarked on a major capital expenditure program totalling over £5m. Utilising finance to help retain cash on the balance sheet would allow them to see a return on their investment sooner rather than later.

The Solution

Bluestone worked closely with the school to understand their project needs and find a finance solution that best suited them.

As finance specialists who cover assets across several sectors, Bluestone were able to finance the school’s sports pitch, purchase a minibus, find a company vehicle and facilitated IT equipment upgrades.

The solutions allowed students to compete and make the most of the new sports pitch, provided them with a means of transport with the new minibus and access to new IT equipment to support their learning.

Ben Howe, Key Account Manager at Bluestone said, “Working with Neil and the team at Radnor House Sevenoaks School has been a pleasure. It has been great to help on multiple projects and see the difference this will help the students, and future students attending the school.”

"Because of Bluestone’s consultative approach to financing, we were confident and felt fully informed throughout. We knew that we were working with industry experts that could deliver on the project."