The concept of community equipment is only defined in the following manner:
“community equipment (aids and minor adaptations)” means an aid, or a minor adaptation to property, for the purpose of assisting with nursing at home or aiding daily living”
so the answer is anything that one would normally call equipment which is directed to that purpose.
It goes on to say that “and for the purposes of this paragraph, an adaptation is minor if the cost of making the adaptation is £1,000 or less;”
meaning that any adaptation under that threshold cannot be charged for – larger adaptations can be charged for but that doesn’t apply to an item of equipment.
Most councils used to run community equipment stores along with the local Health Service so that nobody needed to worry about whether an item was a health (free) or a chargeable social services piece of equipment but this provision makes charging for any such equipment unlawful. We suspect, although we do not know for sure, that community equipment stores have been dismantled just as health and social services were supposed to be integrating, as budgets have become more tightly managed.