Children’s Activities Week 2025

Posted: 10th April 2025

Children’s Activities Week 2025 will soon be here, raising money for Caudwell Children. Caudwell Children is a charity which provides practical and emotional support to disabled children and their families across the UK, helping to improve their quality of life. The theme for 2025 is #Standup4SEND, celebrating the resilience and determination of children who overcome adversity.

This year Gymboree Play & Music is thrilled to be taking part in Children’s Activities Week. In classes across the UK over the next month, thousands of people will come together to learn how to sign our Welcome Song using Makaton. Makaton is a unique communication programme that uses symbols (pictures), signs (gestures) and speech to enable people to communicate. During Children’s Activities Week 12-18 May our members will celebrate their new skills and perform the Welcome Song in class, raising sponsorship money in the process!

In the video below Jennie from Gymboree Play & Music Solihull shows you how to sign our Welcome Song in Makaton so you can start practising at home.

So, gather up your friends and family, and let’s #Standup4SEND! Let’s make this Children’s Activities Week 2025 the best one yet and raise as much money as possible for those in need!

Collecting Sponsorship Money

You can download a sponsorship form if you’d like to raise money offline, or simply share our Just Giving page with your friends and family and ask them to donate.

Your donation really makes a difference:

£5 could provide a child with sensory equipment for in-home occupational therapy
£10 could provide a short break activity to help teach vital life skills and make friends
£20 could help provide a practical workshop to help children understand their autism diagnosis

We know times are tough for everyone so just whatever amount you can manage is massively appreciated and 100% of it will go to supporting the children that need it most. Thank you!

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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

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

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