County Durham

Choose from a huge range of lodges in different gorgeous settings such as idyllic rural locations or near beautiful beaches and water sports. Developments offer a wide range of facilities to suit your family’s needs.

So whether you are seeking a quiet, peaceful holiday away from it all, an active holiday with the children where there is lots to do, or perhaps a romantic weekend break cuddling up in front of a roaring fire, Just Lodges is the perfect place to find all the information you will need to help you make the best choices.

We are passionate owners who know your time off is precious. Our top priority is to do everything to make your holiday as enjoyable as possible. And, with 1,000 houses around the UK in the collection - from small, romantic boltholes, to large luxurious houses; from picture-perfect cottages to cutting edge design - there should be one to suit you! Many have fantastic onsite facilities (swimming pools, spas, acres of freedom, even private beaches), and include child-friendly homes-from-home and pet-friendly cottages where your dog or even your horse are welcome!

With Premier Cottages, you book direct with each owner and so benefit from a whole reservoir of local knowledge. Most also offer extra touches that can change a holiday from good to great, from welcome hampers and home cooked meals, to spa treatments and on- and off-site activities.

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Find a music teacher in your local area.

Web: www.musicteachers.co.uk

We are not resourced to provide advice or support directly to families with disabled children or children with SEN. We signpost families on to relevant organisations. Visit our website for information on national policy that impacts upon disabled children and children with special educational needs (SEN) and their families as well as details of organisations that provide advice and support.

Relaxed Playful style. Willing to travel to all UK locations.

• Black and White, Sepia and Colour
• Editing and touch ups
• Bespoke Photo books
• Prints
• Canvas Prints, Pop art, Perspex art
• CDs of all the photographs from the shoot

We also offer wheelchair skills training, advice and information and campaign to raise awareness of disabled young people's needs. Many of those we help become members of our Kidz Board, acting as our ambassadors and getting involved in projects and events.

Through this support Whizz-Kidz has given nearly 4,000 disabled children and young people the chance to enjoy an independent life at home, at school and at play.

Web: www.whizz-kidz.org.uk

The museums and art galleries which comprise TWM are:

Gateshead
Shipley Art Gallery
Newcastle
Discovery Museum
Hancock Museum
Laing Art Gallery
North Tyneside
Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum
Stephenson Railway Museum
South Tyneside
Arbeia Roman Fort & Museum
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Sunderland
Monkwearmouth Station Museum
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Washington F Pit

For full details of all the above:

Guaranteed educational fun with games, safe experiments and hands on exploration, very interactive. Oh! And we must not forget to mention the take home goodies.

For the 3 to 5 year olds we offer the softer side of science with our Bubbles and Balloons themed science party.

Extras include: Slime making, Rocket Launch, Dry Ice and The Science of Sweets and Pop Corn.

Wow!! What a fun way to learn and reinforce Key Stage 1 and 2 taught at school.

Entertainers Police vetted by CRB and fully insured.

We also provide assemblies and workshops for Schools and Holiday Clubs.

We leave no mess, just happy faces.

For a fab Kids birthday party at your home or hall do contact us through our website link below or free phone on 080 8231 5620 or 020 3603 6867

Mark’s portfolio will show you the variety of his work so please call him to arrange for a viewing.

Mobile: (07956) 590428
E-Mail: mark@markdyerphotos.com

• We are the UK's leading independent provider of nursery and day school education and a market leader in providing high quality pre-school education with our structured curriculum programme.
• Nurseries are open 51 weeks of the year. Please call for opening hours.
• Care provided for children aged between three months and five years.
• Our nurseries are clean, friendly, modern and spacious with outside areas for children to play.
• We provide a safe, loving and learning environment for children, with professional and child-focussed staff.
• We work in partnership with parents, so that you feel part of your child's daily activities and development.

We have set up a data base of Martial Arts Academy’s School’s and Club’s in the UK. That will teach people with all types of disabilities. When people phone us up we can give them a telephone number of the said organisation.

We have joined forces with Sho~Shin Budo Kwai, who run a summer camp every August information will be on our website. We have also joined forces with the Disability Martial Arts Festival. The Festival was started by the late Terry Taylor.

Email:dmaa@blueyonder.co.uk

Kumon is a long term study programme where children work at their own pace, enabling them to develop self-confidence and learning skills that will last a lifetime. With over 600 centres operating throughout the UK there is bound to be a centre convenient to you in your local area.

For more information on how to ensure your child has a solid foundation for academic success, please visit our website or call our local support staff on 0800 854 714

Web: www.durhamcathedral.co.uk

Kindermusik® is a high quality, award winning programme enhancing all aspects of child development including social, emotional, cognitive, physical, language and musical skills and is endorsed by childhood development experts. It also meets the government EYFS guidelines. Fun, small classes are taught by highly qualified licensed Kindermusik® Educators nurturing children's love of music. Recognising the parent is the most important child's teacher, quality home materials including CDs, instruments and books are provided to enable the Kindermusik® experience to continue at home.

Kindermusik® also provides a flexible, rewarding career for those who are musical and love children.

Classes are held throughout the UK and Ireland. For more details on classes and career opportunities see the Kindermusik® UK website.

MOVE combines therapy and education in a programme which helps children work towards goals that they really want to achieve, which can range from learning to hold their head up by themselves to learning the skills needed to play football with their friends using a pacer. MOVE is unique in that no child is too disabled to use it and works with the child’s parents, teachers and therapists to teach them skills which are then practised in everyday life, enabling parents to be involved in key decision making and instrumental in their child’s development.

Visit our website or call us on 020 7407 5344 to find out more information, speak to a specialist or a parent of a child already on the programme or to visit a school using MOVE.

Email: move@move-europe.org.uk

Web: www.ukclimbing.com/databases/listings/clubs.html

Our classes are relaxed and informal. Our aim is to teach children French and Spanish in a fun and stimulating way. Each week children learn through our structured and proven courses designed to stimulate their natural enthusiasm for language and communication.

We also offer summer day camps. Please log onto our website for full details of your nearest club and to have fun on our new activity area ‘BABELZONE’ where kids can play games in French, Spanish & English.

Email: info@lcfclubs.com

Find the nearest tennis club to you by visiting the link below. Just type your post code in the Club Search box found in the right hand margin.

We have hundreds of stylish country properties run by friendly families in superb rural settings. Choice of accommodation includes B&B and self-catering in cottages, converted farm buildings, log cabins or caravans as well as a selection of touring camp/caravanning sites. Whichever you choose, comfort is guaranteed, as is a warm, truly genuine welcome.

Every property has been inspected and quality assessed under National Tourist Boards’ grading schemes and /or those operated by the AA.

Visit the Farm Stay UK website to plan the perfect holiday or short break where your whole family can enjoy fresh air, fine views, real home cooking and that special sense of well-being that only a stay in the country can bring.

The perfect gift for parents, grandparents or god-parents, delivered framed and ready to hang.

We work in any medium and to any size. We prefer to meet a child and make some studies from life but can work solely from photographs where necessary.

E-Mail: unique.portraits@tesco.net

You will find the team at KiwiOz friendly, approachable and willing to help in any way possible! We go to extra lengths to ensure we get to know your families needs. All KiwiOz Nannies have been personally interviewed and reference checked. Visa checks, qualifications and police checks are also completed before we put nannies forward for interviews. We also have a new office open in Auckland New Zealand.

Email: contact@kiwioznannies.co.uk

Web: www.kiwioznannies.co.uk

Through carefully structured training, babies can be taught life saving skills such as turning onto their backs or, following a sudden submersion, swimming to the nearest solid object. They grow familiar with what it feels like to fall into water, so that should they ever accidentally fall in they are far less likely to panic and drown. And our results speak for themselves. In the last three years alone, at least ten of our tiny clients have saved their own lives as a result of the skills they learnt at Water Babies – and five of them were just two years old at the time.

Water Babies classes run in Middlesbrough - Northallerton - Durham - Darlington - Hartlepool - Stockton - Billingham - Redcar - Brotton - Spennymoor - Newton Aycliffe - Shotton – Brandon. For further details please call 01642 711734, email offtherail@waterbabies.co.uk or visit:

We offer a nationwide service, providing experienced and qualified nannies, carers and enablers for children and young adults who may have a range of special needs from a mild learning disability to profound and multiple disabilities and their siblings!

Our carers have a wide range of experience, including Makaton & British Sign language, Conductive Education, speech, occupational and physio therapy. We deal with live-in, daily, permanent and temporary positions. All nannies and carers are carefully vetted and personally interviewed. At least two references are verbally verified and an Enhanced Police Check is required (SNAP Childcare is a Registered Body with the Criminal Records Bureau).

Please log onto our website for full details.

Web: www.snapchildcare.co.uk

We only employ qualified and CRB checked teachers who focus on the requirements of the national curriculum ensuring that what is taught will be relevant to what your child requires to succeed in school exams, such as: SATs, GCSE, 11+ entrance (if you seek to gain entry for your child to a Grammar or Independent school).

Our cast iron guarantee to you - The After-School Learning Centre will actively involve you in your child’s education. Our dedicated teachers are committed to plain-speaking by providing jargon-free progress updates after each and every lesson to ensure that you understand what is going on with your child’s education. Please call 020 8440 8586 for a FREE consultation or visit our website below for further details. Online tuition is also available.

Focusing solely on these two world-class institutions, we specialise in helping students gain an edge over the competition, seriously improving their chances of success.

All our work is based on one simple principle - the analysis of success. We interview, in depth, hundreds of undergraduates to discover what lay behind their success, this together with the expertise of ex-admissions tutors, experienced professionals and our own consultants gives us a winning formula.We offer help at every stage of the admissions process. Contact the above number or log on to our web site for more information.

Web: www.OxbridgeApplications.com

Locate your nearest restaurant using the website link below.

What makes us unique is that we parents/carers of children with special needs ourselves. Understanding the difficulties and emotions involved with a child of any age with special needs is something we can all associate with. In addition friendship, support and practical hints and tips are a major feature of our organisation.

For more information visit our website:

Web: www.specialkidsintheuk.org
Email: information@specialkidsintheuk.org

Web: www.britishfencing.com/clubs_via_region.htm

Dyslexia Action provides a national network of 27 main centres and some 150 linked learning centers, offering individual assessments by Chartered Psychologists and qualified Teacher Assessors and screening for schools, colleges and other organisations. Tuition is provided in literacy, mathematics and study skills using our own highly successful teaching methods and materials. Dyslexia Action carries out over 7,000 assessments each year and currently provides specialist tuition for over 3,000 children in its Centres, outposts and school units. The effectiveness of Dyslexia Action teaching methods and materials has been warmly praised by thousands of grateful children and their parents.

Please log onto our website for your local centre.

Head Office: Park House, Wick Road, Egham, Surrey
Fax: (01784) 222333
Email: info@dyslexia-inst.org

We place nannies, au pairs, mothers helps, nanny/housekeepers maternity nurses and babysitters for permanent and temporary positions throughout the UK. Our aim is find good matches between carers and families, so that both parties are content, and the relationship works well.

Please contact us on the number above or log onto our website for full details.

Web: www.happyhomechildcare.co.uk

Web: www.bibic.org.uk

We provide a safe world for children with abundant opportunities for adventure and a curriculum that helps children discover their potential. Through play and language, a caring staff team, and friendships that begin in infancy, children who come to Bright Horizons centres build a strong foundation for a lifetime of learning.

Our early care and education centres are for children from 3 months to 5 years of age and located across the UK. Come and see how we put our philosophy into practice.

Email: information@brighthorizons.com