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The Link Magazine • September 2005 19
        Somewhere for babies to go                                                    Happy Bunnies
   Haydon Wick's Busy Fingers toddler group launches new sessions in
                                                                                      Day Nursery ^f
   September for parents with under one year olds called Baby Busy
                                                                                      • Swindon's only  e
   Fingers.
                                                                                       Multi-Lingual Childcare
     Large numbers of                                                                 • Prices from £2 per hour
   mums and babes                                                                     • Drop off facility • Holiday club
   turned up to two                                                                   • Ofsted regulated
   taster sessions in                                                                 • Open all year round
                                                                                      • lam - 7pm. Monday to Friday
   July said organiser
   Debbie Musa-Eggie.                                                                 • School/home pick ups or drop offs
   "I put up a few post-                                    propel theatre               'Happy Bunnies' focus is on
                                                                                        delivering excellent standards,
   ers and asked for a                                                                   high quality education and
                                                            arts academy
   notice in The Link                                                                    flexible hours for each child
   and there was a fan-                                     offers dance, drama         In association with Swindon Scrapstore
   tastic response;                                                                     Members of Pre-school Learning Alliance
   much better than I                                       and singing training for  www.happybunniesnursery.co.uk
   expected.                                                6- 18 year olds.          Tel: 01793 704089 (Maria or Joanne)
     "There are lots of
   parents who want to                                      Classes run Saturdays
   meet others and also
   take part in group activities with  Haydon Centre on Tuesday 6 Sep-  from 12.30pm to     Children's
   their babies, but a limited number  tember, 9.30am to 11am. All are  5.30pm at the Even
   of places where they can go."  welcome. For details call Debbie                    Information Service
     Baby Busy Fingers starts at the  on 496900.            Swindon Community             A one-stop shop for
                                                            Centre, Rodbourne.             FREE information I
    Put the kettle on to help another family                                                  SHFORMq  1O  J1..
                                                            For a full prospectus or
   Home-Start UK is organising its first ever national Big Tea Party and
   is appealing for people to hold one between 4 and 17 September, to  further enquiries please  f      n
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   help raise funds to support families and children in Swindon.                              SWINDON
                                                            phone Gemma Pixton on
     Home-Start Swindon, one of the aim.                                                 Why not pop in and see us?
   first ten to be set up in the early Last year its 41 home visiting  01793 703043 or drop  6 - 7 Theatre Square. Swindon
                                                                                            Tel: 01793 541786
   1980s, is now part of the a network volunteers helped 115 families and  in during class hours.  Email: [email protected]
   of 337 similar schemes across Brit- 257 children, spending a few hours                  www.cisswindon.co.uk
                               a week helping parents with chil-
                                                            SPONSORED BY EBV ELEKTRONIK
                               dren under five who are finding
                               parenting a bit of a struggle.
                                Organiser Jan Aylward is hop-
                               ing for a big response in Septem-
                               ber "Any individual or a group
                               can host a Big Tea Party for us. It
                               could be for a few friends at home,
                               or for schoolmates, colleagues at
                               work, in a scout group... whoever
                               they want.
                                 "We are holding our own Big
                               Tea Party at the Punjabi Commu-
                               nity Centre, in Gorsehill on 16 Sep-
                               tember, 10am to 1pm for anyone
                               who would like to contribute to
   Youngsters at Headstarts Nurs-  our work.
   ery handed over £576 to children's  To register a Big Tea Party and
   cancer charity Clic from a fun day  receive an information pack call
   held in May.                Home-Start on 0870 220 6701.
   Above, fun day organiser GemrnaTutt  For information on Home-Start
   with young Headstarts fundraisers  Swindon, call Jan on 613886.




                                    ^ FUN music sessions
     music 3/ ` / ^• for bouncing babies,
                                            toddlers
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     Join us for nursery rhymes, puppets, bubbles, pour pours, teddies,
       hobby horses, instruments, scarves, ribbons & animal masks.
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        free tr al sessions, no joining fee, ru n by local mums, very friendly groups.
                WE NOW bO BIRTHDAY PARTIES!
      Classes in Abbey Meads,Ramleaze, Old Town, Stratton, Wootton Bassett, Cricklade
          & Wroughton. With new STAY & PLAY sessions at Space Adventure.
       (stay & play after your session for £1 - relax with friends over a coffee while your child plays)
       Music Bugs 01793 722072/www.musicbugs.co ,uk
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