Orkney

Hiring baby equipment from Tinyexplorers is quick and easy! Whether you have family planning a visit or want the equipment you need delivered directly to your holiday accommodation we can help!

• Basic, standard & deluxe buggies
• Double buggies
• Flight Aids
• Travel Cots
• Car seats
• Babyzen Yo-Yo Spare Replacement Parts
• High chairs
• Luggage scooters

UK wide delivery! Delivery cost INCLUDES a return label.

See our website for details of our excellent quality rental items and hire online or contact us.

Safehands Network Ltd. the UKs Leading Established National Network. Established back in 1997. Providing mature experienced babysitters and professional childcarers both day and night 7 days a week. All over 25 years of age and police cleared.

Live call centre open Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 7.00pm.

Web: www.safehandsnetwork.com

With over 100 years of experience, the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a global leader in dance education.

Our Battersea headquarters is home to the RAD Dance School, offering fun, high-quality classes for children, teens and adults.

Whether you're dancing for enjoyment, fitness, or to develop your technique, our full timetable has something for everyone.

Start your dance journey today and explore our classes.

Performing Arts and Empowerment sessions using Street dance styles and the arts such as breaking and performing arts.

We also offer work experience, career development and bespoke empowerment workshops. So if you have an objective we can put together a workshop that fits your needs.

We also have event/party enhancing services with dj and dancer with request such as mirror man or promotional dance services.

Email: info@jaronjoinerofficial.com

SNAP! Childcare places specialist nannies and carers for babies, children and young adults who have additional needs. We offer a friendly, but professional service, both to individual families and organisations.

We offer a nationwide service, providing experienced and qualified nannies, carers and enablers for children and young adults who may have a range of special needs from a mild learning disability to profound and multiple disabilities and their siblings!

Our carers have a wide range of experience, including Makaton & British Sign language, Conductive Education, speech, occupational and physio therapy. We deal with live-in, daily, permanent and temporary positions. All nannies and carers are carefully vetted and personally interviewed. At least two references are verbally verified and an Enhanced Police Check is required (SNAP Childcare is a Registered Body with the Criminal Records Bureau).

Please log onto our website for full details.

Web: www.snapchildcare.co.uk

The National Cycle Network is 5000 miles of safe, signed, attractive cycle routes, open and mapped in June 2000. It is made up of traffic-free sections and traffic-calmed road and minor roads, running right through urban centres and reaching all parts of the UK.

Sustrans is the charity co-ordinating the project and will continue to work with local authorities to expand the Network to a target of 10,000 miles by 2005.

For more information on the National Cycle Network and Sustrans and a copy of their free catalogue of maps, information sheets and technical publications please call the number above or visit their website.

E-Mail: info@nationalcyclenetwork.org.uk

Visit the LTA website for information on all your favourite British players as well as your local tennis clubs and tennis centres.

Find the nearest tennis club to you by visiting the link below. Just type your post code in the Club Search box found in the right hand margin.

Special Kids in the UK offers an online support forum, regular newsletters and offers to parents/families of children with a special need and/or disability. We also has a wide range of information available on our site around the subject of respite, services, education and more.

What makes us unique is that we parents/carers of children with special needs ourselves. Understanding the difficulties and emotions involved with a child of any age with special needs is something we can all associate with. In addition friendship, support and practical hints and tips are a major feature of our organisation.

For more information visit our website:

Web: www.specialkidsintheuk.org
Email: information@specialkidsintheuk.org

Whizz-Kidz is a national charity that improves the quality of life of disabled children and young people up to 18 by providing them with customised mobility equipment such as powered wheelchairs.

We also offer wheelchair skills training, advice and information and campaign to raise awareness of disabled young people's needs. Many of those we help become members of our Kidz Board, acting as our ambassadors and getting involved in projects and events.

Through this support Whizz-Kidz has given nearly 4,000 disabled children and young people the chance to enjoy an independent life at home, at school and at play.

Web: www.whizz-kidz.org.uk

Find a music teacher in your local area.

Web: www.musicteachers.co.uk

Birthday party organisers for boys and girls across Scotland. Leave everything to Toadstool Tea Parties for a magical memorable party!

Children's themed parties in Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dumfries & Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Mid Lothian, Moray, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney, Perth & Kinross, Scottish Borders, Scottish Highlands, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, West Lothian. Party themes for girls and boys include Cowboy and Indian, Pirate Party and Magical Toadstool Party

Email: info@toadstoolteaparties.co.uk
Web: www.toadstoolteaparties.co.uk

MOVE is a national charity working with severely disabled children in a Programme designed to increase their mobility and therefore their independence.

MOVE combines therapy and education in a programme which helps children work towards goals that they really want to achieve, which can range from learning to hold their head up by themselves to learning the skills needed to play football with their friends using a pacer. MOVE is unique in that no child is too disabled to use it and works with the child’s parents, teachers and therapists to teach them skills which are then practised in everyday life, enabling parents to be involved in key decision making and instrumental in their child’s development.

Visit our website or call us on 020 7407 5344 to find out more information, speak to a specialist or a parent of a child already on the programme or to visit a school using MOVE.

Email: move@move-europe.org.uk

Established for over 20 years, Active Garden is an independent garden play equipment supplier and manufacturer specialising in residential and commercial products that get kids playing outside.

We offer a great selection of garden play equipment including wooden climbing frames, swings, slides, playhouses, wooden sandpits, trampolines and garden games, to encourage children to discover the joys of garden play.

At Active Garden we take safety very seriously, so we only offer products that are safe, fun and comply with any safety standards that apply.

We can give friendly and practical advice about any of our products.

We offer an installation service for climbing frames, commercial and residential, in England and Wales.

Active Garden also supply safety surface, such as rubber bark and chippings, bonded rubber, wet pour, artificial grass, rubber tiles and rubber grass mats.

We supply Blue Rabbit, Active, Hyland, All Out Play, Adventure Time among other brands.

Have a look out our climbing frame page with great offers on fantastic quality climbing frames.

LEARNING TO CODE SHOULD BE ENGAGING, CHILD-LED AND SUPPORTED

We know that learning to code should be all about having fun, getting creative and feeling the freedom to explore without constraints! It's less about lecturing and more about nurturing and enabling your child on their coding journey. The power of learning through play is real. Our weekly online and in-person clubs feature STEM-Certified mentor support to guide your child on their coding journey.

Watch - Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions teach you how to code
Code - Simple drag and drop code to create, and “hack” your own games
Play - Play newly created games and share them with friends

Email: mary@thecodezone.co.uk
Coding clubs for ages 6-16 both online and in-person.

Local clubs in the Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and South Essex areas, find your nearest local club here:

Does your child need a boost at school?

MagiKats Tutoring offers out of school Maths and English tuition for all children from early years to GCSE (ages 4 to 16). Small group weekly tuition workshops create a fun, supportive and engaging environment that complements your child’s education at school.

• Every student has a programme that is built just for them.
• Interactive workshops provide tuition and curriculum-based support.
• Students can attend a local workshop, or study online.

Whether your child needs more of a challenge, is struggling to keep up or simply needs a boost, we can provide a programme to suit them. Our priority is to ensure every child has the opportunity to realise their full potential.

Offering options for either in-person or online tuition sessions, your child will attend one workshop per week, guided by an experienced mentor. Our affordable tutoring workshops build core subject knowledge alongside thinking, study, and problem solving skills to help every learner to grow with confidence.

Find out more by visiting our website.

English and maths online tutors- Nationwide

English and maths in-person tutors for children in Alloa, Coventry, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Farnham, Guildford, Glasgow, Harrow, Hove, Lincoln, Liverpool Crosby, Livingston, Llandaff, Loughborough, Lytham, Maldon, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Romiley, Stevenage, Sunderland, Woodford Green.

Excellent range of sports clothing, accessories and equipment for all ages of children plus adults. Top brand names include Nike, Adidas, Ellesse, Fila, Lacoste, Lyle & Scott, PUMA, Tommy Hilfiger and more.

Sports equipment and cothing cover various sports including tennis, football and rugby

Premium Party Supplies, Decorations & Gifts

We provide premium and exclusive party supplies, decorations, tableware and children’s gifts. We have a lovely collection of exclusive party bags and themed party accessories.

Everything on our web site is in stock and can be despatched the same day and we offer free national delivery on any orders above £60 too! Plus all new customers can receive a special discount as a thank you for placing your first order with us.

Children’s party themes Animal Parade, Circus, Dinosaur, Fairy Magic, Fantasy, Frozen Inspired, Happy Little Farm, Ice Cream, Magic Party, Paper Doll, Pirate, Pony Party, Popstar, Princess, Rainbow, Superhero, Twinkle Twinkle and Vintage Tea

Pure Living Collection is an online store that sells a fabulous range of luxurious duvets, pillows, mattress protectors and associated bedding products. This website offers invaluable advice on the most appropriate bedding available for children.

Children just love the feel of the soft light-weight, hypoallergenic Spundown Duvets. Mums love them too, for this is the award winning duvet that just loves to be washed, time and time again. For summer the 3.0 tog Pure Cotton Duvet is a popular choice of children’s duvet as it will help your child maintain a regular temperature on warm summer nights.

The polyester hollow-fibre filling of the Anti Allergy Duvets and Pillows contain material in which house dust mites cannot live, thus playing a major role in helping to relieve allergies caused by them. Alternatively, the Anti Allergy Duvet, Pillow and Mattress Protectors all provide an effective barrier between your child and the dust mites and their allergens.

Pure Living Collection also offers some pillows with slightly less filling and therefore perfect for smaller shoulders, whilst waterproof mattress protectors offer their mattresses protection against those all too common accidents and spills.

Web: www.purelivingcollection.com

SenseToys offers practical information and an interesting range of toys and activities for pre-school children and particularly for children with special educational needs – all based on first hand experience!

The emphasis of our resources to promote the acquisition of language through play for both verbal and non-verbal children.

SenseToys was set up by parents of two children with special needs, one with a language delay and one with autism. The carefully selected range of resources aim at helping children acquire language through play by helping to make learning fun and rewarding. Even the most ordinary toys can help your child if you know how to use them effectively.

The range includes thick wooden jigsaws with simple non-stylised pieces, lovely fabric beanie bags to teach shapes and colours, threading activities with large holes and chunky pieces, cause and effect toys and a great selection of tactile and sensory balls for lots of squishy bouncy fun. We also now include basic games and actvities to help with alphabet, counting and language concepts such as prepositions, opposites, small medium and large and we have a new range of toys to facilitate construction play.

Tel: 0845 257 0849 for a catalogue
Web: www.sensetoys.com

GCSE, IGCSE and A Level Examination Entry

3A Tutors Ltd is a Private Examination Centre based in Bristol.

We specialise in providing private candidate examination entry for many GCSE, IGCSE and A Level subjects as well as Functional Skills Maths tests.

Candidates simply register with us as a private candidate and attend on the relevant examination dates.

Our services are ideal for:

• Home educated students
• Re-sit candidates (e.g. GCSE Maths, GCSE English etc)
• Students who wish to take an additional qualification not available at their school, for instance bilingual children (e.g. GCSE Chinese).
• Gifted children who wish to take a qualification early (e.g. GCSE Maths)
• Distance learning students
• Mature students looking to gain additional qualifications, perhaps for a career change.

We have been a registered Examination Centre (50538) with all the main examination boards for many years.

There are no entry requirements or age restrictions to enter for examinations with us.

Candidates can simply register and just attend examinations with us - alternatively we can also offer optional tuition support, if required.

Simply visit our website or contact us for more information on any of our services.

Children's cricket sportswear and accessories including clothing, gloves, bats and pads

NLP, CBT, Hypnotherapy & counselling therapists for children & teens

At NLP4Kids we help children and their families overcome a vast range of problems. Typically these fall into the mild mental health and wellbeing areas such as anxiety, confidence issues, habits and phobias though we can help with more serious problems such as self harming, eating disorders and learning difficulties too.

Our practitioners are all DBS checked, insured and have undertaken first aid and safeguarding training. They work in schools and in the community delivering sessions one to one with young people and in workshops too. In addition, our practitioners attend retraining and have access to ongoing professional development.

Whilst we are not counsellors or psychotherapists, our work can be similar to these methodologies. NLP (neuro linguistic programming) has some similarity to CBT too, but tends to work on a more emotional (rather than just cognitive) level.

There are many different elements to NLP. Some of it works with our internal thinking and the quality of those thoughts. Other aspects of NLP focus on communication, managing emotions and developing better responses to challenging situations.

Many of our practitioners have trained in additional therapies, such as hypnotherapy.

As well as working with children and teenagers, we also work with parents and teachers or others who have influence and intervention with young people. This could be via workshops or in one to one coaching sessions.

Whether you are struggling to support a stressed out child or are finding it a challenge to engage your teenager in conversation, our practitioners are here to support you and your family. We always make sure that we create a good “fit” between the practitioner and the child and our free consultation sessions go a long way to ensure you find someone who will help you to achieve rapid lasting change.

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

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.

Parent Coaching, Advice & Support

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:

• Divorce or separation
• Handling teenage mood swings
• What to do about temper tantrums
• Managing sleep concerns
• Handling screen addiction
• Challenges at school

And much more. Please reach out to book a 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

Dyslexia Friendly Learning Activities that are FUN for all the Family

All Memory Motivator products are quality, educational activities that have been selected to increase self-confidence and stimulate the learning process in reading, spelling and arithmetic. Products include: handwriting activities, spelling games, software, numeracy resources and Active Learning Place Mats. The Active Learning Place Mats were short-listed for ‘BEST GIFT FOR KIDS’ Gift of the Year 2004!

Fax: 01604 505001
Email: info@msl-online.net

Web: www.msl-online.net

The Exam House GCSE & A level Exam Centre for pupils and private candidates. Including access arrangements. Alongside our exam tutors.

We serve customers throughout the UK.

Buckinghamshire Address:
128 Chesham High Street. Buckinghamshire HP5 1EB

London Address:
8a Lower Grosvenor Place, London SW1W 0EN

 

While offering the widest choice of exams for GCSE and A level, we also bring fast GCSE and A levels

One of the largest suppliers of books and stationery. Branches nationwide or buy online. Everything your child needs for school and more. Please see our banner on the Links Page found on the Home Page.

Xihaha Online Children Bookshop offers the latest and most innovative Chinese children books to help your children learn Chinese. We select high quality products which are specially developed by linguistic and education experts.

Our Chinese learning materials are unique in the following ways:

• Cater for children of all ages (including early learning for babies and toddlers).
• Teaching materials for teacher and school which are specially developed for foreign students (Non-Chinese native speaker).
• Books in both traditional and simplified characters.
• Majority of books in Chinese/ English translation
• Multimedia including computer software (CDROM) & CD/VCD/DVD
• Interesting contents (including Chinese and Western stories, literatures, activities books, games and songs)

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.

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

Language books for children in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English (EAL), Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Languages, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Slovakian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh

We stock an extensive range of children's books at our Upminster shop. Fiction for all ages; non-fiction for project work and general interest; reading schemes such as 'Oxford Reading Tree' and 'Letterland'; revision books for all key stages.

Mail Order Available.

Bridge Psychology is led by Dr Peter Corr, consultant clinical psychologist.

I undertake clinical and diagnostic assessments of neurodevelopmental and psychological conditions, learning and cognitive abilities, to support accessing other services or as part of applications for EHCP (Education Health Care Plan). I am also available to provide supervision and bespoke training. I work with, and for, individual families, independent and public sector organisations, Court and legal services.

Reduced rates are available for parents & carers and fixed (the price you pay won’t change and increase over time!) quotes can be provided upon request

Please contact me to discuss your needs and to see how I may be able to help you.

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.

Impartial advice, support on a number of issues and activities for parents including:

• Local activities and meet-ups
• Courses and workshops
• Development & Health
• And much more!

An excellent directory.

Find details and pictures of many of the UK's most popular dog breeds. Have your questions answered or your problems solved on-line by specialists in the fields of conventional veterinary medicine, natural treatments, dog behaviour and training.

Locate a vet for cats or dogs in an area near you.

Established since 1983, Barnett’s of Wadhurst stock a large and wonderful range of books, audio books including Naxos classical music C.Ds, children’s story tapes plus birthday cards for children of all ages.

Authors available include Philip Pullman, Shirley Hughes, Brian Jacques, J. K. Rowling and Michael Morpurgo to name but a few. We can supply a comprehensive range of educational books including the C.G.P. range for SATS revision as well as the Oxford Reading Tree series. We also supply parent education childrearing books.

We offer a nationwide and international mail order service as well as a 24 hour ordering service for any book not in stock.

We will also wrap and include a birthday card with a book of your choice for that special personalised birthday delivery to anyone anywhere.

Please phone for full details.
Address: Gordon House, High Street, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6AA
Fax: (01892) 783566
E-Mail: kitabu@talk21.com

A national mail order company for all your instrument requirements. Call for our free catalogue featuring musical instruments at discount prices or log onto our website for full details.

Web: www.starland.co.uk