Winners! – National Children’s Activities Awards 2025

Posted: 5th December 2025

Winners!

We’re thrilled to announce that Gymboree Play & Music won in 2 categories at the What’s On 4 Kids National Children’s Activities Awards 2025!

We won:

Most Loved Sport or Physical Activity Franchisor with up to 14 Leaders Overall
Most Loved Baby Activity Franchisor with up to 10 Leaders Overall

The Awards

Now in their 19^th year, the National Children’s Activities Awards celebrate the UK’s very best children’s clubs, classes, leaders, venues and volunteers. The What’s On 4 Kids National Awards were the first awards in the UK dedicated to this inspiring sector and include both judged and voted-for categories.

Our categories were decided by votes from the general public so we’re particularly delighted to have won. Thank you to our wonderful members for recognising the hard work our franchisees and teachers put in to delivering our classes for you.

This year saw record-breaking engagement with almost 100,000 nominations and votes cast by families across the UK, a powerful testament to the life-changing impact of children’s activity leaders and organisations.

The glittering awards ceremony took place on 27th November 2025 in Leicester, where 300 guests stepped into a magical winter woodland setting to celebrate excellence across the children’s activities sector.

Gymboree Play & Music

Coming up to our 50^th year, Gymboree Play & Music offers a world of engaging, research-based classes designed for children from birth to five years. Imagine a vibrant space where your baby can explore custom-designed equipment, enjoy sensory activities, and delight in music and movement. From the earliest infant stages, our programmes nurture cognitive, physical, and social skills through stimulating play.

More than just classes, Gymboree Play & Music creates a supportive community. You’ll join other parents, sharing experiences and building friendships in a safe, clean, and fun environment. Our expert teachers guide you through activities, offering insights into your child’s developmental milestones and ideas for play at home.

With flexible membership options including regular classes and open gym sessions, Gymboree Play & Music makes it easy to fit enriching experiences into your family’s routine.

Get in touch with your nearest Centre now to book a trial!

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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