Winners at Business Elite Awards 2023

Posted: 31st January 2024

Winners!

Gymboree Play & Music has won the Best Early Childhood Development Programme category at the SME News Business Elite Awards 2023!

The SME Business Elite Awards were launched in 2018 and have become an established and significant part of the SME News platform.

SME News’s primary objective is to identify and support the best small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. These enterprises are a crucial part of the country’s business sector, and SME News prides themselves in celebrating the hard work and success through their prestigious awards programme.

Despite the significant contributions and achievements of SMEs, they are often overshadowed by larger multinational corporations. However, at SME News they aim to shine a light on these deserving companies and acknowledge their dedication and efforts through the SME Business Elite Awards.

This award is judged purely on merit by their in-house team. The judges assess all potential winners against multiple relevant criteria, including company performance over a given period of time, and expertise within the industry, sector or region. They also consider previous accolades won, and client testimonials or recommendations.

Here at Gymboree Play & Music we’re thrilled to have been selected and proud to have the work of our UK franchises and small Head Office team recognised!

SME News

SME News is a quarterly digital publication, part of AI Global Media, an internationally focused B2B digital publishing group founded in 2010. The group is committed to delivering content you can trust to every one of its readers, subscribers, clients, contributors, advertisers and visitors.

The publication is aimed at those who own, run or assist in the running of small and medium-sized businesses within the UK. Their digital magazines, website and social media outlets, provides valuable tools to SMEs and their leaders for running their business day to day, seeking the best advice and for growing and succeeding in their endeavours.

They’re here to support these businesses with useful insights, general small business news, advice to entrepreneurs and start-ups and by providing a reliable platform from which to gain vital support.

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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