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December Newsletter
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Hello!
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It's Christmas! Sorry, but we've been really patient and waited as long as we could to go all festive!
We'd like to wish you and your families and a very happy Christmas and a healthy New Year! Thank you for your continuing support of WO4LO - it's been such an amazing year for us!
Read on to hear about our latest business award win and how your voting in the WO4LO 2008 Awards has helped Children in Need!
 And don't miss another CD competition at the end of this newsletter!
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| New activity for the new year |
| If you're looking for a new class, group or activity for 2008 please have a look on www.whatson4littleones.co.uk as we add new activities every day and many new classes that start in January 2008 are already advertising with us! |
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Well done everyone! |
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Thank you to everyone who has voted in our 2008 Awards so far. In total 2166 votes were cast in November and we have therefore donated £108.30 to Children in Need!
And we weren't the only ones doing our bit! All over the country many of you that attend classes were fundraising for Children in Need, just a few of the wonderful stories below, thank you and well done to everyone!
Sing and Sign in Leeds raised £316 (and still counting) by doing a Jessie Cat Raffle, Body Shop at Home party, and dressing up during the Children in Need week. They had some fantastic fancy dress including a sygnet, spider, cat, pink power ranger, and piglet.
Babies, toddlers and preschoolers joined with Jo Jingles all over the country took part in a week long singalong of our favourite songs - culminating in ALL classes singing the same song at 11.00 on BBC Children in Need day - the SINGALONG song - the title track on their CD specifically released to raise money for BBC Children in Need. Local South Essex Jo Jingles classes also collected coins, and a fantastic £1720.34 was raised.
Ducks Friends toddler group, Houghton on the hill raised £40. All money for the session was donated and biscuits and cakes made and sold and eaten!!
Dinky Dancers in Hampshire and Hertfordshire ran special Teddy Bear dance classes and raised £490.02.
Pottering About in Oxford made painted pottery with the radio presenters fom BBC Radio Oxfordshire and the pieces were auctioned off raising as fabtastic £2000!
Baby Ballet have been holding events for Children in Need all year and have raised a massive £1521!!!! They held a show in March called 'Starmakers', a Teddy Bear's Picnic in August (Pudsey lead the toddle waddle around the running track!), donations from each 'Twinkle' (babyballet bear) sold and an adults charity ball in July called 'Tutus and Tiaras' with local celebrities Matthew Wolfenden (emmerdale) and Eorl Crabtree (Huddersfield Giants/Big Daddy's nephew) in attendance. |
| Christmas with iChild |
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 Have you seen the wonderful Christmas activities on the www.ichild.co.uk website yet?
The Christmas reward chart is the perfect way to ensure your little ones are on their best behaviour over the holiday period. After showing how good they've been, why not let your child write and decorate their own letter to Santa?
There are lots of crafts such as; making snowflakes and Christmas stencils, which are perfect for cutting out, decorating or using as window decorations.
iChild is packed full of lots of other activities for children to enjoy including:- colouring in, reward charts, nursery rhymes, dot to dot, spot the difference, animal masks, puppets, flash cards and lots more! |
| Brrrrr bit chilly, fancy some sun? 5% discount on your 2008 holiday |
If you're looking for a UK or European break next year we have negotiated a 5% discount with Cottages 4 You - so it might be worth a look before you book anywhere else!
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| New Dream Bag design just launched! |
Introducing the beautiful new Dream Bag design...
Animal Parade
The Baby Sleeping Bag Company are pleased to announce the launch of their latest Dream Bag design, in stock on 17th December!
Animal Parade is equally gorgeous for a little boy or little girl (as these beautiful brother and sister models demonstrate!) in a pale green with happy animals marching across the front.
From just £15.49 and as always there is free postage on all UK orders, with the option to upgrade if you would like your order quickly.
Available in 2.5 tog sizes 0-6 months, 6-18 months and 18-36 months with 1.0 tog being introduced in the Spring ready for the warmer months.
You can buy your Animal Parade Dream Bag now, just visit www.thedreambag.co.uk. And if you're looking for that last minute gift you can have your Dream Bag delivered directly and gift wrapped in Christmas paper!
To celebrate the launch of Animal Parade they will be giving the 50th purchase away free!
Just complete your order and payment and if you purchase the 50th Animal Parade Dream Bag your payment will be refunded in full! |
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Mums in Business |
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A move to a new county sparked Amanda's new business!
"I was a primary teacher in Hertfordshire for a number of years, but gave up when I had Amy. We went to lots of different mums and tots groups and I discovered Sing and Sign. It was absolutely fantastic!! So much fun and Amy picked up the signs brilliantly, which really eased the frustrations.We had a great teacher called Alex who was wonderful, really enthusiastic. We kept going for 3 terms, but towards the end of the 3rd term we moved to Northamptonshire. We both enjoyed the course so much that I actually drove all the way back to Hertfordshire for the last 4 weeks of term!!!!
I looked all over when we got here but could find nothing like Sing and Sign and the nearest class to us was too far really to travel, so after much deliberation I decided to bite the bullet and start up classes of my own.
I have been inundated with interest and the feedback from the first course has been great. As a result I've now adding 2 extra classes and have run school holiday play groups." |
| Posh Frocks and cheap jewellery! |
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Sam Willoughby, co-founder of WO4LO, and one of our team, Sarah Keast, attended the Inspire07 business awards evening last month as WO4LO was a finalist for the E-Business of the Year Award.
It was a black tie do, so sequins were required!
We're delighted to report that WO4LO won and Sam gave a speech to 150 people that you can read on our forum and follow the link to see the short video.
The guest speaker was Gerald Ratner of the "cheap" jewellery fame who provided a witty and very funny conclusion to the evening!
This is the 3rd award WO4LO has won this year and we still can't quite believe it. Thank you to everyone who has become part of WO4LO and helped us achieve so much! x
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| This month's prize winners are... |
| We had a huge number of entries to our Fifi CD/DVD competition - congratulations to our 3 lucky winners!
And also congratulations to our Mums' Network prize winner Gillian from Stratford who wins a £30 Debenhams gift card. Our Mums' Network prize for December is your choice of magazine subscription for 12 months! All our Mums' Network members are automatically entered into our monthly prize draw - to find out more click here! |
| Quick Christmas CD competition! |
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We have a copy of My CBeebies Album, Bratz Girlz and My Christmas Party Album to give away just in time for Christmas!
It's a quick competition as entries must be received by 19th December at 12noon.
To win one of these 3 CDs just send your answer to the following question to info@whatson4littleones.co.uk and include your name and address so if you win we can post your prize quickly!
What day of the year does Santa traditionally deliver presents?
My CBeebies Album features all their old favourites including Bill & Ben, Postman Pat & Brum, through to chart toppers from Bob The Builder - Can You Fix It, Teletubbies - Say Eh Oh & not forgetting those much loved and colourful Tweenies. And there's more, once your little ones have worn themselves and the carpet out dancing around for 80mins you can sit them down to watch the exclusive CBeebies DVD.
Bratz Girlz includes giant number ones from Sugababes (About You Now) and Beyonce & Shakira (Beautiful Liar), pop princesses Gwen Stefani (Sweet Escape), Avril Lavigne (Girlfriend) and Mutya (Real Girl) and girl-power divas Christina Aguilera (Ain't No Other Man) and Nelly Furtado (Say It Right).
 My Christmas Party Album is the perfect accompaniment to every kids party throughout the festive season. One of the most original Xmas albums to date, this record is crammed full of the merriest tracks to warm our cockles on a cold winters evening.
With songs such as charts toppers Girls Aloud with Not Tonight Santa, classic greats such as Merry Christmas Everybody (Slade), I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday, All I Want For Christmas is You, along with an exclusive Christmas mix of the single, Shaun the Sheep, and not one but two songs from none other than Crazy Frog, this is the perfect gift for any little one whilst still entertaining everyone else in the family too. | |
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