Medlock Buddy Bench
July 2022

Neptune Street Furniture has been making street furniture since the 1960’s, pushing innovation, design and being at the forefront of trends. In 2016 they started producing and manufacturing ‘Buddy Benches’. These benches were designed to give school children who are feeling low or are lacking friends to play with at break times, a safe place to go to and to find someone to talk to. Whether this be other pupils, teachers, or playground monitors.

Their standard ‘Buddy Bench’ is their ever popular ‘Kingston’ seat, which is now available in two lengths – 1500mm and 1800mm long. These have above ground seat ends, which are freestanding, but can also be attached to the ground, for more stability. The newly launched ‘Medlock Buddy Bench’ is a smaller design, coming in at a length of 1350mm. This choice in design was to allow the benches to be more suitable for smaller spaces and smaller budgets. Fitting in with the aesthetics and furniture of any play group or preschool.

The ‘Medlock’ seat comes with a wide variety of customisation options, making each bench unique to the customer’s order. Customers can choose from either wooden slats or recycled plastic lumber, which comes in two different colours and styles. Neptune Street Furniture offer a plain brown plastic, giving the aesthetics of wood or, for customers who are after a bit more colour and style, there is the multi-coloured slat option, where customers can choose the placement and order of the slats themselves.

These recycled plastic slats are not only great for the environment but are very durable, vandal-proof and maintenance-free with no need to stain or paint as the lovely bright colours go all the way through.
The ‘Medlock Buddy Bench’ also has two slight variations in design options for the legs, allowing the customer to choose whether to have a back rest or not. This means that customers can either choose between having a bench or a seat to suit their location.

Most of Neptune’s furniture range has the option to be engraved, whether this be on plastic or on wood, these engravings can have any wording the customer may request. Furthermore, if the plastic slats style is chosen and engraved, then there is also the additional option of having plastic infills, which again, comes with a choice of colour too.

The magnitude of design and colour choices available to the customer also means that this range is suitable for virtually any business and establishment, not just those in the education sector, with choices that makes this product versatile and accommodates everyone’s needs and wants.

All Neptune Street Furnitures benches come pre-assembled and delivered on a pallet by a courier, so they are quick and easy to locate and then enjoy.