Friendship Bench — Carved Oak School Bench

Name: Friendship Bench — Carved Oak School Bench
Brand: Free Ranging Designs

Free Ranging Designs

£1890

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A hand-carved oak friendship bench for school playgrounds and gardens — built on the simple, powerful idea that any child who needs a friend can sit here, and someone will come. The friendship bench concept became part of school culture because it makes inclusion visible. It gives children a language — not a conversation they have to start, but a place they can simply be. These benches are commissioned most often by schools, PTAs and parents who want something the children will feel belongs to them: not a flat board on posts, but something carved and particular. The design — flowers, animals,

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Friendship Bench — Carved Oak School Bench

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