Derbyshire

KiddiVouchers – giving parents and employers more to play with!

Childcare vouchers are a Government approved scheme aimed at helping working parents to afford quality childcare. Parents can save over £900* a year in tax and National Insurance, simply by paying their childcare provider with childcare vouchers instead of cash.

There’s no means-testing, no claim forms and it only takes 10 minutes to register. Both parents can take part, to double their savings. Childcare vouchers can be used for nurseries, pre-school, childminders, nannies, out-of-school care and holiday clubs, for children aged 0 to 15. KiddiVouchers schemes are also simple and convenient for employers, offering employer National Insurance savings of up to £373* a year for every parent who takes part.

Find out how easy it is - call free on 0800 612 4395. *Savings depend on individual circumstances

THE CHILDREN'S SHOW THAT COMES TO YOU! ... Give your kids a special treat this Xmas season 2025/26 and book a full children's panto show.

Dick Whittington and Red Riding Hood, Chaplins touring pantos are full of fun. The children will love to boo the villain, roar with laughter at the comic lead and sing along to all their favourite songs.

If you are thinking of booking a children's entertainer for this Christmas season, why not give your kids an extra special treat and book a full children's show.

We can perform anywhere, from the smallest classroom to the biggest hall or theatre (staging facilities are not necessary). Check out the video on our website for more details.

CALL US FOR A FREE BROCHURE OR TO BOOK A SHOW - OUR DIARIES ARE OPEN FOR THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON 2025/26

Chaplins have troupes situated throughout the UK with two shows available in your area.

Dick Whittington- A Chaplins Gold Production with a cast of 5 actors playing 8 parts, the children will be mesmerised for 2 hours (including a 20min break). The children will be taken on a magical journey with Dick Whittington to Old London Town where they will boo the evil Captain Blood and roar with laughter at the comedy antics of Idle Jack and Sarah the Cook. Packed solid with comedy, adventure, sing-along songs and lots of audience participation.

Red Riding Hood - A Chaplins Mini Panto with a cast of 3 actors playing 5 parts, the children will be captivated for a full 75 minutes. The children will be transported to the Magic Wood where they will meet Little Red Riding Hood and all her friends. Packed solid with comedy, adventure, sing-alongs, and lots of audience participation.

Chaplins have been established for over 30 years and in that time have successfully performed to around 8 Million happy children, throughout the UK.

The Britchops Foundation Drum Course is a new multimedia eBook drum course in Adobe PDF format.

This course provides all the information you need to begin learning today's popular drumming styles such as Pop, Rock and Britpop/Indie in the comfort of your own home.

Drum charts by top UK and US bands Oasis, Cast and Bryan Adams are featured by kind permission from Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Publishing. Other features include extensive MIDI file library in GM/GS/XG format, Digital Imaging, Professional Drum Score Notation and extensive Tutor Notes.

Find out more at:

Web: www.britchops.co.uk

Sadly, meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia continue to kill more children under five than any other infectious disease and there is still no vaccine to protect against the most common forms. Therefore, it is vital to raise awareness of the symptoms and the importance of early recognition so prompt treatment can be given, which can often mean the difference between life and death.

Meningitis UK aims to increase the understanding of the disease through our ongoing awareness programme. We also fund a number of pioneering vaccine development research projects across the UK to find a vaccine to eradicate the disease. If you require any further information about meningitis or the work that we do, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Meningitis UK is the working name of Spencer Dayman Meningitis UK, registered charity no. 1076774

Address: 25 Cleeve Wood Road, Downend, Bristol, BS16 2SF
Email: information@meningitisuk.org

Web: www.meningitisuk.org

3A Tutors Ltd is a well-established Bristol based tuition agency offering high quality, one-to-one tuition with experienced, subject specialist tutors.

Tuition is available in many subjects ranging from Key Stage 1 to A Level.

Tuition is tailored and adapted to meet the specific needs of each student, helping to build key skills and confidence, assisting with problem topics and working on exam technique, etc., as required. All material is covered at the student’s own pace.

We work with fully DBS checked, experienced tutors who have at least a degree in their primary subject specialism.

Tuition can be conducted either face-to-face (in the Bristol area) or online (nationally).

Daytime, evening and weekend tuition is available. Tuition is very flexible – we can offer long term, short term, ad-hoc, weekly or intensive tuition.

We offer very competitive hourly rates.

We can provide mock examinations with feedback and a grade – completed either at home or in an exam setting.

Simply visit our website or contact us for more information.

3A Tutors Ltd is also a registered Private Examination Centre (50538) offering private candidate examination entry for GCSEs, IGCSEs and A Levels with all the main UK examination boards.

Tutors & Exams provides examination and assessment facilities primarily aimed at private and home educated candidates. The company was established in 2014 by a former Examinations Officer and Awarding Organisation Manager with over 25 years’ experience in education administration. In the intervening years Tutors & Exams has evolved into a much valued and respected examination venue.

Tutors & Exams has nationwide coverage with centres located around the country https://www.tutorsandexams.uk/#centre-locations. All are approved for examination delivery by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ).

In addition to our examination centres, we have also partnered with two schools in London, one in Coventry, one in Bolton and one in Taunton to deliver A level Science practicals outside of term time, using their labs.

In 2022/23 Tutors & Exams delivered examination assessments to thousands of candidates. We cater for 95% of all GCSE/GCE, International GCSE/GCE and Pearson Edexcel International A Level subjects alongside Functional Skills. We are also willing to consider requests for additional subjects that we do not currently cater for.

To ensure access to assessment is available to ALL learners we have our own Access Arrangements team who can assist in organising access arrangements if required.

We work in partnership with many large, respected distance learning providers and online schools, and very much value these relationships to deliver high quality assessment for their learners. We also accommodate private training organisations delivering qualifications to sizeable cohorts spread geographically throughout the UK.

Furthermore, we also facilitate examinations for a growing number of universities to deliver their distance learning programmes and AAT (Association of Accountancy Technicians) assessments are also available in our centres.

KindleKids is a child psychology service run by an experienced highly specialist Chartered Clinical Child Psychologist and specialist team. We work together with parents (and schools where appropriate) to assess, understand, support and provide strategies for managing a range of difficulties and concerns. We offer:

• Educational / Psychological Assessment
• Therapeutic support to children and teenagers
• Parenting support
• Consultation to schools

We can help with a range of emotional, behavioural, social and learning issues that may be contributing to a child or teenager feeling unhappy, lacking in confidence or feeling out of control. Following psychological assessment, the child psychologist works with parents so that individual treatment plans can be developed to support them and their families in understanding and addressing their difficulties while at the same time acknowledging and nurturing their relative strengths, in order to help them to reach their potential.

Please see our website for parenting tips and more information about who we are, how we can help and what we offer.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE DO NOT HAVE AVAILABILITY TO TAKE ON NEW FAMILIES FOR DIRECT WORK.

WE ARE HOWEVER OFFERING A NEW, INNOVATIVE AND PRACTICAL ONLINE COURSE TO EMPOWER PARENTS AND CHILDREN TO MANAGE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH 

SEE DETAILS BELOW

NEW ONLINE COURSE: P.O.W.E.R. - Psychology of Wellbeing and Emotional Resilience
Empowering Parents and Children

This innovative 8-session course is full of practical strategies to equip parents and children with essential life skills for managing emotions, developing confidence, and promoting general mental health and wellbeing. Modules on:

1. Emotional wellbeing and understanding overwhelm
2. Thinking about Thinking
3. Strategies for understanding and managing anxiety
4. More on Anxiety, including sleep and separation anxiety.
5. Unravelling anger
6. Kindling confidence
7. Skills for successful socialising
8. More on parenting and behaviour

Filled with practical tips, lots of strategies and worksheets to accompany every session.

All 8 sessions for the price of one hour of individual support
£180 for lifetime access for the purchaser.

What people are saying:
I have found this course really enlightening and I have been surprised at how much of it is applicable to my life and my family. I have learnt so much and feel that Leanne has a wonderful expertise in this field. By doing this course ( as opposed to taking my child to a therapist ) I am now able to offer support myself, model behaviour and improve communication with my children . I didn’t realise I could be so instrumental in helping my children with the difficulties they face, and I feel almost privileged to be sharing this journey with them now. Leanne has given me more confidence to be able to help my children manage their anxiety in a healthy way, and to ultimately encourage them to be the best that they can be. Thank you! Claire (children 9 & 13)

The POWER course is packed with valuable insights, clever analogies and practical strategies for helping children cope with anxiety, anger and social challenges. In particular, the course helped me, as a parent, better understand my children. I connected with the gentle approaches for encouraging communication and optimism. Thank you! Nili (children 9 & 12) The POWER course highlighted the vital elements underpinning emotional wellbeing and offered really useful strategies and techniques to bring about positive change. Leanne presents a comprehensive guide to understanding a child’s anxiety, underlining the fundamental role that parents play in both building a calmer environment and facilitating a more resilient mindset for children. A valuable resource for parents to retain, revisit and incorporate into the everyday care of children’s mental health. Naomi (children with ASD and ADHD aged 16 & 13)

Pet Protect provides an affordable and simple way to insure your pet if the worst should happen.

With Pet Protects’ lifelong cover, from the moment your insurance starts, they are there to help. Take a look at their website for full details.

Parents often come to me because their child is struggling with meltdowns, having a hard time fitting in at school, hitting or struggling around anxiety or food.

As a certified Parent Coach, I can teach you the skills to support your child more effectively - learning tools around emotional regulation, boundaries, and communication for improved parent-child relationships.

I can support you and your child on topics such as:

1. Divorce or separation
2. Handling teenage mood swings
3. What to do about temper tantrums
4. Managing sleep concerns
5. Handling screen addiction
6. Challenges at school

And much more. Please reach out for a free discovery call about my parent coaching packages.

Based in Bristol, I am available online for coaching nationally

Helping others parent joyfully is my mission!

Email: nina@journeyintoparenting.com

Caldene put hard work and over 75 years experience and training into every winning garment they make. There range is the most complete, whatever your chosen discipline you can always wear Caldene. Choose your horse or pony with care; Choose your equestrian pursuit with enthusiasm; Choose Caldene Riding Wear to give you the extra confidence to Win!

Log onto their very friendly website for full details of how to buy on-line.

Hi there! My name is Emma Shannon and I have loved art from a very young age. I qualified as a primary teacher in 2006 and soon discovered that, due to timetable restraints, there was not enough time dedicated to the arts at school. I was often seeing children with low confidence being taken out of a rare art lesson to do more maths and English.

I believe that we should value art as a subject more as being creative makes us feel good, increases our self confidence and helps us think in different ways.

As an artist and a teacher, it was the logical choice to bring my two passions together to create Go Sketch Club!

I believe in teaching children that there is no such thing as 'good art' and 'bad art', only art we like and don't like. Everyone likes different art! We celebrate 'mistakes' as 'opportunities' within the creative process.

Go Sketch Club aims to develop young artists into self confident, imaginative and creative thinking adults of tomorrow. What can we offer?

Online zoom classes
Drawing tuition for age 9-16 on Tues and Thurs 5pm-6pm
Home Education Art Club: Weds 10am-11am

Arty Parties
If your child loves to draw, paint and create, we have a wide variety of fun art-based birthday parties to suit your artistic child! We even do adult parties if you feel like a unique and calm creative gathering. We can even tailor-make a fun and unique art birthday party for you and your child! All you need to do is have an idea for the theme, supply a work space and away we go! We can travel to a venue you have hired out or we can come to your home.

For example we can do a workshop on cartooning, comic strips, kawaii cartoons, manga/anime faces, zendoodle animals, watercolour painting (any topic), painting masterpiece with a canvas each, clay sculpture and we can even tailor make a party to fit your theme. We are based in Taunton so but love to travel so do get in touch.

Online Zoom Classes: www.gosketchclub.com/allliveclasses
Art Parties in South West: www.gosketch.co.uk/arty-birthday-parties/

Email: emma@gosketch.co.uk

Children's online Art Classes and Art Parties in Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucester, Wiltshire, Dorset & London

The World-wide Education Service (WES) is one of the leading providers of home education courses worldwide. We supply accredited comprehensive, up-to-date learning courses for children aged 4-14 years. No previous teaching experience is required.

WES is designed to create a school in the home, this is particularly beneficial where education facilities are limited or, where there is a need to "top up" local school education.

Our service includes:

• An initial assessment of your child’s educational level.
• Courses tailored to the individual needs of your child, based on the National Curriculum of England.
• All necessary books and materials to support the subjects.
• An introduction from your WES personal tutor who will advise and support you in your role of teacher.
• Regular assessments of your child’s progress.
• A final report detailing your child’s educational level to hand on to future schools.
• A Certificate of Completion

WES is also able to offer a home schooling package for special needs children. Coursework can be adapted to accommodate specific requirements.

Weekend, After-school & Holiday Camps Coding Classes for 6 to 16 years old

Skills Lab is a platform with a huge library of video lessons for kids 6 to 16 to learn everything about coding & game design.