Covid-19 Update

Posted: 18th March 2020

We at Gymboree Play & Music care about the safety and wellbeing of our customers and their families; and we hope you are managing to stay as stress free as possible in these difficult times. As such we are monitoring the Government Covid-19 guidelines by the hour to make sure we are making the right decisions for you and our teams.

please support Gymboree Play & Music

In the light of the most recent announcements some of our sites have decided to close, either because their venue has closed, or because they cannot staff their site. As of 11am on Thursday 18th March the following sites are closed:

Edinburgh
Glasgow South
Kensington
Solihull
Tunbridge Wells
Watford
Wimbledon

All other sites are open, but it’s probably best to double-check with your site before you leave home if you’re coming to classes.

Gymboree Play & Music are a network of small family run businesses and these are scary times for our franchisees and their teams. We are trying to provide our classes for as long as possible to avoid disruption for you and your families, and maintain the livelihoods of our teams. We have however made some changes to our classes, where running, to take even greater care of health and hygiene:

Hands to be washed before and after class
No Gymbo kisses – we are bringing Gymbo out but not physically giving kisses
No Gymbo stamps on hands or feet, but we can stamp your child’s Gymbo sticker
We are only using necessary props and ensuring everything is cleaned with antibacterial cleaner including surfaces and toys are every use.
We are using a bubble fan rather than the bubble blower.

Furthermore we are working on an exciting project to bring Gymboree Play & Music classes to our customers in their homes for when the time comes to close completely. Please watch out for news on this and if you can possibly continue to support your local Gymboree Play & Music in the weeks and months to come we would be so very grateful ❤

For more information on Covid-19 (coronavirus) and how to keep yourselves safe you can read the Public Heath England or Health Protection Scotland websites.

Keep safe,

Gymbo x

Covid 19

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