It’s Children’s Activities Week!

Posted: 9th March 2022

After last taking place in 2019, Children’s Activities Week is back! This year’s event takes place from 21st to 27th March and Gymboree Play & Music is right behind its welcome return.

Kindness

Following its enforced break caused by the pandemic, the theme this year is “kindness”.

The last two years have been challenging for everyone. But it has also shown the true value of kindness. Being kind to family, friends, and neighbours, and supporting our front-line workers has been so important to support everyone’s health and wellbeing through COVID-19.

In classes all over the UK, thousands of people will come together to take part in fun children’s activities to help raise awareness and fundraise to help disabled children. Funds will go towards providing life-changing support for autistic and disabled children all over the UK through the charity, Caudwell Children.

Get Involved

So, everyone at Gymboree Play & Music is thrilled to be official partners of Children’s Activities Week. Our sponsored activity will be a kindness themed movement to music. This will take place as part of normal classes during the week.

To get involved just find your nearest Gymboree Play & Music centre within the ‘Team members’ on our Just Giving page, and share their page with your family and friends, asking them to donate. Alternatively you can download and print the paper sponsorship form . But above all, get involved! There are prizes for the team who raise the most money!

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

Caudwell Children supports thousands of disabled and autistic children every year and their vision is to create a world where all children have the choice, opportunity, dignity and understanding they deserve.

Together we can make that world a reality, please support Children’s Activities Week.

Children’s Activities Week is held in association with What’s On 4 Kids and the Children’s Activities Association.

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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, 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