Children in Need

Posted: 6th November 2024

It’s Children in Need on Friday 15th November and we’re going to have some fun!

Pudsey has joined up with Peppa Pig this year to celebrate Children in Need and they would love to see your little ones dressed up in our classes! (But you’re equally welcome in normal clothes too 🤗)

How about dressing up as a pirate or a superhero like Gymbo; wearing yellow, or something spotty? Perhaps your little ones could wear their favourite party outfit, or maybe take inspiration from Peppa and wear pink or welly boots! Anything goes!

BBC Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be. In 2022/2023 they supported well over 400,000 children, through their funding of nearly 1500 charities.

Children across the UK are facing greater challenges than ever, with mental health conditions such as anxiety & depression rising, high levels of poverty leading to inequality & lack of opportunity.

Many children are simply carrying a load that’s too heavy to manage alone, so this year, we are asking you to help make life lighter for children.

Wear your best party outfit to dress up and donate!

Charity, Children in Need

Reviews

Both of my children (3.5 years and 11 months) go to Gymboree Play & Music and love it. My toddler goes to their drop-off Lego class which she raves about. It's very creative, working not only on Lego skills but also painting, drawing etc. My infant son loves his Gymboree Play & Music Crawlers class - particularly loves crawling all over their props, through the tunnels, etc. Great way to get the infant crawling over obstacles! Gymboree Play & Music is part of our weekly schedule for both kids and we look forward to participating every week. Invaluable!

Natalia, Hampstead

Gymboree Play & Music was a lovely and positive experience for my son Leo. We started when he was 9 months and he is now 3 years old, I wish we had started sooner.
He loves the songs (which is part of our daily singing at home), the freedom to explore and he was happy there. He looks forward to class every week and once class is over he will tell everyone about Gymbo and what he did.
For me, I liked that it taught him how to get down safely from a height, how to learn to use his body, and touching on different topics every 2 weeks. It gave me confidence in other environments to trust that he has the ability that he learned from Gymboree Play & Music and to trust him.

Sheena, Sevenoaks

I’ve been taking both my newborn and toddler to Gymboree Play & Music for a couple of months now and both boys are really loving the classes and open gym sessions. It’s a great way to meet other mums, entertain toddlers at witching hour(!) and get ideas for sensory play with babies. Sophie and Cat are fantastic and have so much energy and loads of different ideas for the classes, plus make sure the activities it’s help children meet their development milestones as well. Highly recommend this if you’re thinking about joining!! Thanks so much Sophie, Cat and the wider team :-)

Pippa, Tunbridge Wells