Is Landscapes 4 Learning Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Landscapes 4 Learning on AmazonFull story →Craig Hill pitched outdoor learning gear for nurseries and schools, mud kitchens and bug hotels among them, in series 16.
His Cardiff-based family firm is still trading, quietly doing what it set out to do.
Backing to Outgrow a Local Reputation
Hill wanted £50,000 for 30 percent of the business, a sizeable stake to hand over, the kind of trade a founder makes when they want serious help scaling past a small, local customer base.
Peter Jones covered the whole amount. As the panel's longest-serving investor, with decades spent backing physical products of every kind, he was about as low-risk a choice as this founder could have picked.
Cheaper Than the Catalogue, Built to Last
The company still markets itself as a budget-friendly alternative to pricey catalogue equipment and improvised pallet playgrounds, building everything from treated timber certified by the FSC.
New products get developed alongside actual teachers and early years specialists rather than in isolation, the kind of continued effort that separates a brand still refining its range from one that has simply stopped bothering.
A Steadier Kind of Customer
Selling to schools and nurseries is a slower, steadier business than consumer retail, since institutions tend to reorder and refer other schools rather than buy once and disappear.
The firm sells direct through landscapes4learning.com, still taking orders from schools and nurseries across the country, a modest but genuinely solid result from a Den pitch.