North Yorkshire

The National Cycle Network is 5000 miles of safe, signed, attractive cycle routes, open and mapped in June 2000. It is made up of traffic-free sections and traffic-calmed road and minor roads, running right through urban centres and reaching all parts of the UK.

Sustrans is the charity co-ordinating the project and will continue to work with local authorities to expand the Network to a target of 10,000 miles by 2005.

For more information on the National Cycle Network and Sustrans and a copy of their free catalogue of maps, information sheets and technical publications please call the number above or visit their website.

E-Mail: info@nationalcyclenetwork.org.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.

• Singing, Dance and Drama for boys and girls aged 4-18
• 20 years of stretching imaginations
• More than 12 million hours of confidence building
• Stagecoach: Training for Life
• Holiday Courses for Summer

From beautiful cottages in quiet idyllic country settings to luxury beach side apartments with stunning views or Scandinavian log cabins to town houses. With a diverse range of holiday cottages and self catering accommodation, we are sure you’ll find the perfect place for a short break, family holiday, seasonal get away or even a business trip.

There is no commission fee charged and Independent Cottages can put you in contact with over 1000 independent holiday cottage owners. With a ‘Late Availability’ search facility; whether you are planning your summer holiday in advance or want to get away at short notice, Independent Cottages has something for everyone.

Visit our easy to use website today to search for self catering accommodation within the UK.

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

Owned and run by two fully qualified, experienced teachers and with a team of highly trained, caring staff we at Acorn offer a stimulating learning environment for children from the age of 2 to 5 years.

We are open from 9am - 3.30pm for morning, afternoon and full day sessions. Children enjoy a fully structured day working towards early year goals through educational theme play. Our nursery is well-equipped with an extensive outdoor area.

Enjoy a family break at Disneyland Paris in one of the 7 themed Disney Hotels and meet all your favourite Disney characters! Benefit from the latest Disney offers including FREE nights and FREE kids!

Our camping holidays in luxury mobile homes & tents offer facilities that compare with any modern hotel, and a level of comfort you will find hard to beat but without the expense!

Choose from thousands of self-catering holiday cottages across the UK, Ireland and France, a fantastic selection of ski apartments in the French Alps and a huge choice of hotels across Europe, perfect for a short break or stopover.

Book accommodation only, or save even more money when you package with one of our great-value ferry, Eurotunnel, or Eurostar crossings.

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

Family discounts available for members:

• Children under six years old camp for free all year round
• Six to 17 year olds camp for free in low season when accompanied by an adult
• Special family deals available for a family of two adults and up to four children under 18 in mid and high season from £10.85 to £33.50 per night

Many of our Club Sites feature excellent facilities for children of all ages, including play areas, recreation halls, large areas for ball games and parent and child washrooms. Plus several provide easy access to some of the countries most popular family tourist attractions.

Visit our website to join online or call our membership hotline on 0845 130 7632 to find out more.

Web: www.bibic.org.uk

All of our tutors tailor their teaching to the needs of the pupil and can employ a variety of teaching styles to cater for the needs of the individual. With tutors based around the country the agency can offer assistance in most subjects and ages throughout Britain and at very competitive prices.

Children will have the opportunity to try over 20 fantastic outdoor activities like Climbing, Canoeing, Abseiling and Archery, experience some superb events and make loads of new friends. There will never be a dull day at ‘High Adventure’, we will challenge, inspire and educate your children.

High Adventure is run by teachers, safety & enjoyment is of paramount importance, we provide a high quality Summer & Easter camp delivered by professional & caring staff.

Residential & Day Camp Enquiries – please call 01535 630044 Or Email: info@highadventureoec.co.uk

Baby Story Play
6 months – 2 years
Explore the magic of stories, sounds and words with your little ones in a fun, interactive class that gets you communicating imaginatively with your little ones. A must for mums who are looking for a new exciting class – no more banging the same instruments or singing the same songs…hooray!

Early Years Drama
2 years – 7 years
Our skilled practitioners transport your children into a new and exciting imaginary world each week. Guiding them through each original story creatively, your children will become the sights, sounds and loveable characters together.

Our links with the early learning frameworks make Debutots Early Years Drama a huge hit with nurseries and schools too!

Debutots also provide fabulous birthday parties: themed unique adventures through story packed with party games, imaginative play and fun!

Visit our website for full details and a class near you.

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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

Parties cost from just £99, and the price includes all materials, pictures and sand. There are no additional charges on top of the party price. We bring all equipment and will take care of all the set up. Magic Sand Painting is great for all types of parties and events, not simply birthdays but also weddings, fun-days, festivals, craft fairs and community and fundraising events. We also run workshops for schools and Nurseries, afterschools clubs, brownies, etc in fact any event where there are children that need entertaining.

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

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

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.

• Singing, Dance and Drama for boys and girls aged 4-18
• 20 years of stretching imaginations
• More than 12 million hours of confidence building
• Stagecoach: Training for Life
• Holiday Courses for Summer

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Eco-chic boutique camping in beautiful 200 acre woodland – super stylish deluxe canvas lodges, complete with four-poster beds, fridges and woodburners… Sleeps 6 in deluxe a lodge, 6 in a luxury lodge and 4 in a bell tent, 22 tents in total.

“Fantastic, brilliant… It’s amazing”.
Alexander Armstrong, Comedian and TV Presenter

This is a unique British Camp with a lovely communal feel – a tea tent and campfire are at its heart and the camp appeals to families, couples and groups.

The Deluxe lodges are superb, they have huge wood burners, 4 poster beds, fridges, roll top baths, loos, fully equipped kitchen and an outside dining area.

Jollydays is ideally situated close to York (less than 2 hours from Kings Cross), close to the Yorkshire Wolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural beauty and the Moors National Park. The stunning Heritage Coast is less than an hour’s drive and quaint market towns abound.

The Van Outersterps can provide delicious food, delivered straight to your tent and can organize just about anything for you – from archery and bushcraft to Polo and champagne picnics.

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

A programme of physical and cognitive exercises is designed by the therapy team according to each child’s very specific needs. These exercises are taught to the child’s parents and carers who carry out the programme in the comfort and familiarity of the family home; through which 80% of children make measurable improvements and some achieve a degree of independence far beyond their families’ expectations.

1500 children have benefited from the Brainwave Programme since the Charity was established in 1982.

Email: enquiries@brainwave.org.uk

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

Visit our website to see lodges in beautifully rural locations close to stunning scenery and glorious beaches, perfect for relaxing and pursuing leisure activities including fishing, golfing, swimming and walking or for the more energetic we have a fantastic selection of family fun parks offering a host of facilities and entertainment for the whole family. We also offer winter sports lodges for your skiing holiday in the UK as well as a selection of pet friendly and pet free accommodation.

The choice is entirely yours to discover and enjoy! Happy holiday!

The displays, which opened in March 1997, explain the ways in which people’s lives have changed over the last 150 years as a result of improvements in public health, medicine and healthcare. The museum collection has over 35,000 objects which, in particular, include a vast range of surgical instruments dating from the late 19th century to the present day. The collection also includes a unique collection of English pharmacy ceramics. The library has over 8,000 books, including the largest collection of medical trade literature in the world.

Web: www.thackraymuseum.org

Animal World have been in the animal filming business for over 20 years. In addition to supplying the world of film, TV and photography with animals, reptiles, birds and insects Trevor also organises fantastic birthday parties where children can learn about, interact with and handle a selection of amazing animals.

A lot of the animals you will meet are seen frequently on TV and in films so why not meet some of the stars and thrill your party guests with a party to remember.

Contact us today and quote All 4 Kids to get a 10% discount.

Don’t let your little ones miss out on their special day. Our weekly Birthday Bash package is complete with unlimited games of bowling, a live entertainer and a visit from our own company mascot, Roley. This is no ordinary birthday party, this is a party charged with fun, laughter and energy, so join in the fun and let Bowlplex do the rest!

For bookings and further information on our packages or any excuse for a great day or night to remember, simply log on to our website where you will find full contact and address details of your local Centre.

So, can we interest you in The Great Indoors?

The apartments boast open plan living, designer kitchens and stunning sea views. Each apartment has the WOW factor from the moment you walk in. We have 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments that are available for both short breaks and longer stays – a great getaway with the family, and provide you with everything you might need, from Egyptian cotton linen, to individual travel cots and high chairs.

With the sandy beaches, Peasholm Park boating lake and the Sealife Centre in such close proximity – children and adults alike will have no shortage of entertainment! At the end of the day, why not relax in your 5 Star surroundings and borrow a DVD or Nintendo Wii Game from our extensive free collection.

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 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

FIND OUT HOW TO MANAGE challenging behaviour, difficult bed times, uncooperative children, spirited toddlers, sibling rivalry and more…

BECOME A MORE RELAXED and confident parent and have a closer relationship with your children. Parent coaching provides you with individually tailored support, assisting you in raising emotionally intelligent, respectful and happy children.

JUST 4 PARENTS OFFER A RANGE of parent coaching services; face to face, telephone and email coaching, and home visits. We run weekends for fathers and sons and fathers and daughters in the New Forest providing dads special time with their children. We run ongoing groups for parents and parents to be.

WORKING WITH YOUR COMPLETE family dynamic, we build on the skills you already have. We realise that you know your children better than anyone. Parent coaching will give you the tools you need to become a more calm, cool and collected parent. Let us guide you towards a more balanced and happy family. We will cover topics such as communicating with your children, defining and holding boundaries and styles of ‘discipline’. With our support, you will become the parent you want to be.

To obtain our free 'Ten point action plan', email info@just4parents.co.uk 

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.

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