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Two events for National Breastfeeding Childminders, Support Groups, Pre-schools,
Awareness Week WTC, Clubs, Education, Funding, Health
Children’s
Children’s
Children’s
Children’s

NCTea party: Thursday 10May, 10am to 11.30am at Toothill Church. Godwin Court, Old Town, Swindon Children’s
Information Service
Information Service
Information Service
Information Service
Everyone is welcome to join in and children are invited to bring their Tel: 522100 Information Service
favourite toy animal with them. Colouring competition, craft activities, ‘A beautiful venue for A one-stop shop for
Mini Musician songs and food. Entry: £2 per child on the door. All children’s parties’ FREE information!
proceeds to helping the NCT maintain and increase its information and Invitations: sole use of ‘the little party house’.
support services for all parents. For details call Sarah on 347618.
Party food, games with prizes, fancy dress,
Starbucks Coffee Morning: Thursday 17 May, 10.30am to 12noon, art & craft activities + a balloon and
Swindon National Childbirth Trust breastfeeding counsellors Sarah yummy treat for every child. Refreshments
Wilmott and Elena Rossi are hosting a coffee morning at Starbucks in for Mums and Dads. All for £10 per child Why not pop in and see us?
the Brunel Centre for pregnant and breastfeeding women as well as PLAY DAYS 6 - 7 Theatre Square, Swindon
anyone thinking of training as a peer supporter. Tel: 01793 541786
Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am to 11.30am
The NCT Breastfeeding Line is open seven days a week 8am to 10pm Tuesday & Thursday, 2pm to 4pm Email: [email protected]
on 0870 444 8708. www.cisswindon.co.uk
£5 including 1 adult and 1 child Training, Parent & Toddler Groups, SEN,
and all refreshments Schools, CTC, Nurseries and much more
More Breast Mates qualify
Peer support for breastfeeding is prov-
ing ever more popular and effective INFANT MASSAGE
with 12 mums qualifying in April as
mentors after a six week course run by
health visitors.
Charlotte Bray from Moredon said Ofsted & NCMA
she was very pleased to have completed Registered Childminder
the course. “I’ve made so many new Full Time - Part Time -
friends and we’re all ready to help oth-
ers.” School Holidays Courses held locally
Health visitor Linda Miles said mums Contact Dee to arrange Groups sessions and 1 to 1 at home
have a wealth of practical experience to a visit or interview Also available: complimentary
share. on 01793 702548 therapies including mums-to-be
Charlotte and her baby Lydia with Linda Miles massage and hot stone therapy
and NCT breast-feeding counsellor Elena Rossi or 07956424886
Or mail For more details contact Geraldine
[email protected] on 07821 686570
Cash and save by going with cloth nappies [email protected]
www.care-for-kids.co.uk
As The Link reported in March, cloth nappy users in Swindon have www.holistictherapy-athome.co.uk
been missing out on a cash incentive handed out across the rest of
Wiltshire.
But in its drive to reduce house- There are also many fashionable
hold waste, Swindon Council has designs with Velcro fastenings in-
announced that parents and carers stead of pins.”
can claim up to £30 per baby when Washable nappies will save
they buy washable nappies in a more than half a tonne of waste
scheme funded by Wiltshire Wild- going to landfill - per baby. Dis-
life Trust. posable nappies account for 4 per
The Swindon Real Nappy Net- cent of household waste, equal to
work hope that this will encour- 3,500 tonnes in Swindon.
age people to consider switching. The £30 will help parents afford
“Gone are the days of buckets of the initial outlay; they are likely to
smelly nappies and boil washing,“ save up to £300 per child in the
said Kate Robinson, Wiltshire long run. For your free voucher,
Wildlife Trust’s Real Nappy Of- contact Jacky Thomas on 01380
ficer. “Nowadays nappies are 725670 ext 236.
light-weight, quick-drying and www.swindon.gov.uk/environ-
washable at low temperatures. ment/nappies.

New extension now open

Close to M4 junction 16, just a short drive from West Swindon
For children 3 months to five years
Open all year from 8am to 6pm
Extensive outdoor play and garden
Grant places available
For information telephone: 01793 851495
www.thedaynursery.com
Brinkworth Road, Wootton Bassett, Swindon SN4 8DS

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