Delivering Excellence in Canopies, Shelters, and Complete Project Solutions for Over 20 Years
At Able Canopies® Ltd, we specialise in supplying and installing high-quality, bespoke canopies, covered walkways, shelters, and shade sails. Our services include canopies for schools and commercial settings, including associated groundworks fencing and street furniture, ensuring a seamless, end-to-end solution for all of our commercial clients.
Our commercial canopies are perfect for covering both small and large areas within the sports sector such as football stadiums, leisure centres, recreation rounds and much more.
Our commercial canopies are perfect for the transportation industry and can cover walkways, entrances and loading bays within airports, seaports, train stations and lorry parks.
High quality canopies for schools, nurseries, colleges & universities backed by a top-class service. By transforming your outside space with hard-wearing canopies for schools.
Able Canopies have been working successfully with building service and construction professionals for over 19 years, delivering our projects on time, on budget and with no disruption.
Retail, Tourism & and Hospitality
We have helped the retail & hospitality sector with weather protection for many years, enhancing businesses with stylish & efficient shelter.
We supply and install high quality shade and shelter structures for hospitals, doctor surgeries, dental practices, care homes, hospices, and veterinary practices, all backed by a first-class service.
We have an extensive range of canopies and shelters with various options that suit most requirements – large projection required? Sustainable wood frame? We’ve got that covered.
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To ensure the safety of our staff and customers, we are able to offer you a choice of a virtual survey (online only) or a full site survey in person. If you’d like to opt for a virtual survey, we can discuss your canopy needs over the phone and will ask you to send us photographs of the area with measurements. We will then be able to send you an estimate via email. To use this service, please call us or send an email: Contact Able Canopies®.
You can find out how a virtual suvery works here: Virtual Canopy Survey
Able Canopies® offer the complete canopy and project service. Our dynamic range of durable and stylish canopies is supported by our expertise in project management and professional completion of your installation with electrical, ground, security and decorating services.
We have extensive canopy installations across the UK for schools, universities, retail outlets, hospitality customers and the healthcare sector
Our outdoor projects service includes the addition of lighting, heating and secure roller shutters to canopies, plus the addition of surfaces such as soft play and boundary fencing
Our range of canopies for schools feature wall mounted canopies, freestanding canopies, timber canopies and shade sails
We have a dedicated service for architects and contractors which gives access to drawings and specifications and provides consultation on unique designs and installations
Read what our customers say about their experience of dealing with us here: canopy testimonials
We hold all the major quality and safety certifications including ISO, ISOQAR UKCA (CE Marking), Once for All, Safe Contractor, CHAS Advanced & Construction Line Gold.
Download our Canopy Brochure
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Able Canopies® specialise in providing quality commercial canopies, solar carports & canopies, commercial awnings, walkways, shelters (including cycle shelters and waiting shelters) and shade systems designed to help you to use your outdoor space more effectively.
Each canopy is professionally installed and uses our tried and tested project management skills and service to ensure any installation is expertly finished with the necessary floor materials, security options and landscaping.
We have installed thousands of school canopies and shelters at nurseries, schools and local authorities throughout the UK, as well as the sporting, leisure, hospitality, retail, health and care sectors.
We have uploaded a new video to YouTube, click here to watch it: Able Canopies® Introduction
All our products are designed to create versatile and usable outdoor canopies and shelters which complement your environment perfectly. Our products make ideal playground shelters, outdoor classrooms, entrance canopies, alfresco dining areas and covered seating areas.
We’re proud to be known throughout the industry as “The Canopy Experts”. In addition to providing the finest canopy systems in the UK we also offer a free no-obligation site survey carried out by our expert surveyors, to ensure you receive the ideal canopy or shelter solution.
How to buy one of our products
So you’ve arrived at our website, which is great! Maybe you’ve had a look around at some of our products and decided which one you’d like. Maybe you can’t decide?! Give us a call, or drop us an email, and chat to our friendly team and we’ll help you through the whole process.
Here’s a quick overview of what will happen when you pick up the phone or send us an email.
1. Contact us and tell us what type of product you are interested in. If you’re not sure, don’t worry! Our friendly sales team will go through different options with you explaining their different features and benefits to see which is right for you. We’ll also ask you whether you think you will need a planning application- find out more about our Planning Help here
2. Book a survey – Our sales team will also check where you are in the country and whether your requirements are something we think we can help with and then it’s time for us to get out there and meet you face to face! We will organise for one of our Surveyors to visit you at a time convenient to you and complete your free site survey.
3. The Survey – Our Surveyor will chat with you about your requirements, whether you had a product in mind and what they recommend for you. They will also go through your Quotation Pack which contains lots of background information on Able Canopies®. They will take careful measurements of the area and all this information will be sent off to our pricing team for them to create your free quotation/s.
4. Design – If you require a bespoke design, our Design and Build team will then work to create your unique vision, once you are happy with the design we will price this up for you.
5. Over to you – Once we have put your quotation together we will send this over to you via email and also post a copy if you would like a paper version – you can then add this to your Quotation Pack to keep all your canopy information in one place. We will then contact you a few days later to make sure you received your quote and to check whether you have any questions. Once you have reviewed your quotation let us know your thoughts and any changes required – we are happy to amend quotations to better suit your requirements if needed.
6. Ordering – When you have decided you want to place an order – let us know, we shall then send out your order form and you will be assigned your dedicated Project manager to oversee you installation. If you require planning, our Planning team will also contact you to guide you through this process- at no extra charge to you.
7. Installing your product – Your Project manager will work with you to find the best time for your installation. If you are a school and want a holiday booking, let us know as soon as possible so we can reserve a place for you. But don’t worry as we also have extensive experience of installing during term time and will discuss any health and safety concerns with you beforehand, so term time installations are always a great option too.
8. Aftercare – Once installed, our fitters will check you are happy with the finished product and ask you to complete our Project Completion Form, so we can collect all your feedback and ensure we continue to develop our service to meet your needs. We will then send out your After Sales pack which will include your guarantee, if applicable, your maintenance schedule which advises on how to care for your canopy product and your £250 voucher of your next canopy.
9. Enjoy your new shade and shelter product!
Kings Park Academy - Canopy Case Study
Stone Lodge Academy - Coniston Canopies Installation Suffolk
Stone Lodge Academy - Coniston Canopies Installation
Herne View Primary School - Coniston Freestanding Canopy Surrey
Herne View Primary School - Coniston Freestanding Canopy
Maeglas Primary School - Coniston Wall Mounted Canopy South Wales
Maeglas Primary School - Coniston Wall Mounted Canopy
Maes Ebbw School - Second Coniston Canopy Install South Wales
Maes Ebbw School - Second Coniston Canopy Install
Our Commercial Awnings offer an attractive way to create temporary shade to external settings offering a great way to provide shade when needed and you can also retract the awning when shade is not required to enjoy the open sky instead.
Our canopies are suitable for a wide range of uses including covered free-flow play areas, playground shelters, waiting areas, covered walkways, outside dining areas and sheltered locker areas. They are ideal for protecting customers, employees, or pupils from the sun and rain, transforming previously unused areas into comfortable and welcoming areas that can be utlised all year round, whatever the weather.
We supply high quality, commercial umbrellas to schools, restaurants, bars and retail settings. They provide effective cover from the weather for outside dining, outdoor play, waiting areas, picnic areas and outside selling areas for shops.
You can create your own outside dining package for your hotel, restaurant or bar, allowing you to choose the products that suit your alfresco dining needs.
Outdoor Classrooms enable you to move lessons outside, adding more teaching space to your school as well as enabling you to separate classes if needed, to make classes more spacious. They are permanent external structures that can be attached to, or separate from your main school building and can be constructed from a range of materials including aluminium, steel and timber.
Outdoor Project Canopy Packages
If you are looking to renovate your school or commercial outdoor area, we can take care of the project for you from start to finish depending on your product requirements with our outdoor project canopy packages.
Canopy accessories from the canopy experts - please see our available canopy accessories below.
Polycarbonate Glazing Systems
Our polycarbonate glazing systems have been designed to cover your project however big or small, including both curved and mono designs. Pairing robust aluminium with high strength polycarbonate panels, our polycarbonate glazing system are the perfect solution for our projects.
Able Canopies have been designing, supplying and installing school canopies for 20 years. Our canopies are made from the highest quality materials and supplied with guarantees of up to 10 years and life expectancies of up to 25 years. They completely transform your school, saving space indoors, maximising the use of your outside area and transforming lunch times with outdoor dining canopies.
Our commercial Shade Sails are extremely durable structures that offer high UV protection, making them perfect for use in playgrounds and recreation areas.
High quality shelters and compounds provide much needed weather protection, including cycle shelters, bike compounds, buggy shelters, shopping trolley shelters, bin shelters and waiting shelters.
Going green, one tree at a time
Here at Able Canopies®, we’re regularly striving to become a greener company that contributes to saving the planet by creating eco-friendly policies. We therefore have started planting two trees for every school canopy order received to help us both meet our green goals and contribute to looking after our planet and its wildlife.
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