Our Vision
Our vision is to be the playground provider of choice in South East Queensland, creating play spaces that are renowned for sparking curiosity, triggering imagination and encouraging outdoor playtime adventures that give children a sense of balance in this technologically driven world.
What Drives Us?
We are driven by our mission to be reliable, safe and always deliver on our promises, while creating extraordinary playgrounds in Brisbane and surrounding suburbs that open up children’s minds to infinite possibilities. We are also driven by our core principals – they guide everything we do. They are:
- safety
- play-value
- integrity and service
- quality and custom-made
- imagination
Our Process
We visit you and make a plan
We take the first step towards creating your extraordinary playground when we visit your site and discuss your needs and dreams. We measure up and share our ideas before preparing a plan and providing a cost estimate.
We draw up your bespoke playground
We design your playground with all of its features. Our team knows how to create a customised playground that’s fit for a grand adventure — and one that will build muscles, develop skills, test limits, increase well-being and inspire children to have fun in the great outdoors.
We install and maintain your new playground!
Your playground is built to Australian Playground Standards and to the design specifications. We work with efficiency and our attention to detail and construction quality are high. Once your playground is certified safe we complete the handover, including providing a maintenance schedule.
Scott Walton
Director
Scott has been a landscaper for over 20 years and has played an active role in the playground industry since 2006. He was contracted to Harry Pearson Playgrounds for many years before he took over the business. Scott has a Certificate IV in Landscape Architecture and is a certified Level 1,2,3 Comprehensive Playground Inspector. Scott is the founder and director of Bespoke Playgrounds and his vision for the business is to create play spaces that are renowned for sparking curiosity, triggering imagination and encouraging outdoor playtime adventures.
Scott is also a certified to undertake attenuation testing using our Triax15 equipment. He is also a First Aider.
Gaynor
Office Manager
Gaynor worked in the service industry for several years before leading the Bespoke Playgrounds Office. She has a Higher National Diploma in Recreation Management and a Master’s Degree in European Leisure Resource Management. In addition, Gaynor has studied AutoCad at Tafe, and is a qualified Level 1-3 Playground Inspector (as per Australian Standards 4685). Having 3 children, Gaynor knows first-hand the importance of providing opportunities to encourage children to put down their iPads and to spend more time outdoors. Gaynor’s role includes scheduling maintenance requests, completing inspection reports and general administration. She is also a qualified Workplace Health and Safety Officer, First Aider and Fire Warden.
Aaron
Senior Carpenter
Aaron is a qualified carpenter and has 9 years experience. His expertise ensures that our playgrounds are built to Australian Standards and that our playgrounds are constructed to the highest of qualities. Aaron is someone who gets on with any task that is put in front of him which important as many of our playgrounds have unique requirements.
Aaron also undertakes maintenance work on existing playgrounds in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. Aaron is a First Aider and has been a great asset to our team.
Brett
Senior Carpenter
Brett is a qualified carpenter with over 20 years working on projects within Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He is super organised, and his experience helps our team to keep on track, to complete our playgrounds to schedule and to Australian Playground Standards. Brett is a First Aider.
Being a father, he brings new ideas to the table. We love that he can take his little boy to our new bespoke playgrounds that he has helped to build. Brett is down to earth, a strong leader and a valuable team member.
Erika
Designer
Erika joined our team as a designer. She recently graduated from QUT with a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design and Marketing.
She has always excelled in the prototyping stage and enjoys working with her hands as she has a curiosity to understand how things work. She has been fortunate to have been provided with invaluable exposure to various machines and engineering principles from a young age as both her parents are engineers!
Scott B
Carpenter
Scott has been a carpenter for many years and brings a wealth of skills to our team. He truly is a Jack of all trades.
We appreciate the expertise that he brings to our team and his lighthearted approach.
Elbert
Labourer
Elbert joined our team in 2023 and was instantly an asset to our team. He specialises in landscaping, installing soft fall and wet pour rubber. Elbert has over 20 years of experience in concreting and excavation works and shares his knowledge with the team.
Linus
Labourer
Linus joined our team in 2023 having been a landscape labourer for over 5 years. He has quickly learned to strip back and paint ironbark logs in readiness for installation. He also helps us detail our activity panels and works with our carpenters on site. We value his positive can-do attitude and his a wonderful addition to our team.
Harrison
Playground Designer
Harrison joined our team in 2023 after graduating from QUT with a Barchelor’s Degree in Business and Industrial Design. He has strong sketching skills and brings his playground ideas to life using CAD.
Gianna
Lead Playground Designer
Gianna’s wealth of experience and professional qualifications has given her a broad range of design and business skills. She believes that good design involves experience, innovation and resolution and says that ‘Design is not merely form and function – it is improving the world by changing the way we live’.
She has multiple years of CAD experience and received an honours in Industrial Design at QUT. She is super talented and certainly innovative with a passion for designing timber and nature play.
Could this be your name?
If you are a carpenter, welder, landscaper or labourer, we sometimes need new additions to our team. Feel free to give us a call and we can let you know of any roles going.
Jack
Junior labourer
Jack is a very hard working lad, who gained his Construction White Card at the age of 14 and his certificate of competency to operate our CNC router. Every school holiday and sometimes after school, Jack comes to our workshop to help our team get the work done. He details our HDPE activities, helps landscaping, cleans the workshop, washes the vehicles and gernies the yard. He never complains and we love his ‘get it done’ attitude. He is now in grade 12 and there is a job waiting here for him when he finishes school at the end of 2024!
Australian Standards
Having learnt his craft at Harry Pearson Playgrounds, since 2006 Scott Walton has been building safe, high quality custom-made playgrounds that make Brisbane communities better and brighter. He remains hands-on in his role today at Bespoke Playgrounds as he helps the next generation to develop vital skills through courageous play.
Each Bespoke Playgrounds custom play structure is built to Australian Playground Standards, including AS/NS 4422, AS/NZ 4486, AS 4685.1-6 and AS 4685.11. The standards govern all aspects of playground design and construction including materials, structure, design, protection against falling, finish, entrapment, protection against injuries during movement and falling, spaces and areas, fall heights and access.
At Bespoke Playgrounds, the safety of those who use our kids outdoor playsets is paramount.
All playgrounds must be certified by a certified playground inspector as meeting Australian Playground Standards. We have 2 certified Level 1, 2 and 3 Comprehensive Playground Inspectors. They can certify all Bespoke Playgrounds playground constructions upon completion, making the process quick and easy. They can also certify playgrounds that have been installed by others.
