Staines, Ashford & Egham branch

Local information for Mums and Mums-to-be

As local mums we’ve put together an information sheet for other local mums – everything from baby change facilities to toddler soft play. Please help us keep the information up to date by letting us know ([email protected]) anything you think should be included or is out of date.

Maternity and breastfeeding women, lots of comfortable seats, easy wear to navigate with prams, free kids club and welcome gifts if you join, good • Staines: Mothercare, Peacocks, changing facilities. Mamas & Papas, H&M • Windsor: H&M; Jojo Maman Bebe, maternity + feeding bra fitting in Baby Kit Daniels • Staines: Mamas and Papas • Weybridge: Mothercare superstore, • Camberley: Babygear, Hayward Brooklands House, 1-3 Portesbury Road, • Chertsey: Natural Baby Shower Camberley, GU15 3SZ www.naturalbabyshower.co.uk • Kingston: John Lewis • Woking: H&M • Windsor: Daniels, JoJo Maman Bebe • www.nctshop.co.uk • Chertsey: Natural Baby Shower • www.mamafeelsgood.com www.naturalbabyshower.co.uk • www.vertbaudet.co.uk • www.Kiddicare.com • www.mamaway.co.uk • www.nctshop.co.uk

• www.everydaymaternity.com • www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk Breastfeeding Support • www.milkbug.co.uk • Ashford: Baby Café - Thursdays 12.30-2.00pm, drop-in café for Parent & Baby Rooms breastfeeding Mums at the Clarendon Children’s Centre, Knapp Road, • Staines: Boots - two changing mats and breastfeeding counsellors are seated area for feeding; Costa Coffee available for advice and information. (next to BHS) - baby changing room; Contact 01784 424759 / Mothercare - ask for a key at the cash [email protected] desk; Mamas & Papas; Elmsleigh • Drop-in session at Ashford hospital Shopping Centre (in the corner between (Topaz Suite), Antenatal Clinic area, M&S and BHS); Debenhams; Waitrose. Mondays, 12.30-2pm. Contact: 01932 • Windsor: Daniels – changing and 722678 / Kim McHarg feeding room with rocking chairs; • BIBS Breastfeeding support drop in Waitrose. session at Sayes Court Children’s • Ashford: Costa Coffee Centre, Addlestone, Tuesdays 10- • Egham: Café Nero; the Village 12pm. Contact 01932 581502 • Westfield Shopping Centre: very child • www.breastfeedingsupport.co.uk friendly and accessible for pregnant

20120518 v2.1 Parent and baby cinema • Laleham: Thames riverbank south of • Baby Flicks: Ambassadors Cinema, Laleham for paddling and feeding ducks Woking • Chertsey: Chertsey Meads playground www.ambassadortickets.com/woking / and riverbank 0870 060 6645. • Knowle Green: free tennis courts (road • Bring your baby: South Hill Park Arts leading to the Leisure Centre). Centre, Bracknell • Lyne: Cockroft railway, Hardwick Lane, www.southhillpark.org.uk / 01344 www.cockcrow.co.uk/ 484123 • Virginia Water: the lake • Baby Club, Everyman Cinema, Walton, • Bushy Park: playground and boating www.everymancinema.com / 0871 906 pond 9060 www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/bushy_par Electric Scream: Electric cinema, k/ Portabello Road, London, www.electriccinema.co.uk / 07908 9696 Family Friendly Pubs/Restaurants Farms • Staines: The Swan, Wheatsheaf and • Feltham: Hounslow Urban Farm Pigeon (Penton Road), Harvester, www.hounslow.info/parks/urbanfarm/ / Frankie & Bennys, Pizza Hut, Pizza 0208 831 9658 Express, Slug and Lettuce, Costa • Epsom: Horton Park Children’s Farm Coffee, BHS café, Debenhams Café, www.hortonpark.co.uk / 01372 743 Waitrose Café, Café Nero 984 • Egham: Costa coffee, Café Nero, The • Odds Farm: High Wycombe Village, Prezzo www.oddsfarm.co.uk / 01628 520188 • Englefield Green: Barley Mow, Mango • Brocketts Farm: Nr Leatherhead Chutney www.bockettsfarm.co.uk / 01372 • Laleham: Three Horseshoes 363764 Music classes Outdoor spaces • Various days at SureStart centres – • Staines: Lammas playground, crazy golf, check with centres wet and dry play areas for all ages, free • Jolly Babies / Music with Mummy in tennis courts and a big meadow; Laleham Village Hall Commercial Park model railway runs the www.musicwithmummystaines.co.uk/joll last Sunday in every month during y-babies spring/summer; Hythe Park Wendover • Baby Sensory and Toddler Sense at The Road with good toddler playground Hythe Centre, Thorpe Road, Egham • Windsor: Windsor Great Park for walking Hythe, www.babysensory.co.uk and cycling, • Toddlehop at The Hub in Chertsey on www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/ Thursdays, www.toddlehop.co.uk/ • Englefield Green: Savill Garden (part of Egham/Staines/Ashford/Chertsey: Rhyme Windsor Great Park) for walks, tots Time - free half hour sessions singing swings/climbing frame/sandpit, shop and songs to babies and children at local great café with baby change, libraries. Check for current times at www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/landscape www.surreycc.gov.uk/people-and- /savillgarden/ community/libraries/library-services-for- • Old Windsor: Runnymede Pleasure children-and-teens/libraries-for-the-under- Grounds great for picnics and 5s/rhymetime-locations playground areas with café and baby change ww2.runnymede.gov.uk/leisure/outdoor/ parks/egham.asp

20120518 v2.1 Activities and Playgroups www.chertseyhub.com/funtots-soft- (Also see ‘Swimming’ – below) play.html • NCT Bumps & Babes (up to about 1 • Wokingham: Monkey Mates year) 10-11.30am on Fridays; www.monkeymates.co.uk/ NCTeenies (from about 1 year old) 9.45- • Feltham: Lil Pins Playhouse at Tenpin 11.30am on Mondays, both at Stainash bowling, www.tenpin.co.uk Congregations Church Hall. • Egham: Leisure Centre with soft play, • NCT Sponge Fingers (birth to about 5 Tiny Tot sessions, Toddler gymnastics years old at Shepperton Village Hall, and café, Thursdays 9:30 – 11am, www.eghamleisurecentre.co.uk/KidsZon www.nct.org.uk/branches/sunbury- e shepperton/events/sponge-fingers/14 • Ashford: Spelthorne Gymnastics and • SureStart at The Haven Children’s Acrobatics for little ones and general soft Centre, Thorpe Road, Staines including play drop in Dads’ brunch, Messy Play, Music, NICU www.spelthornegymnastics.com/pre- group, Post natal classes on minor school-and-playtime/ illnesses, baby massage, resuscitation • Staines: Spelthorne Leisure Centre with and weaning. indoor play facility for under 3s, www.thehavensurestart.co.uk/news.php playscheme and after school club. • Surestart at Bucklands Children’s Centre www.everyoneactive.com/tabid/946/defa at Buckland Primary School, Berryscroft ult.aspx Road, Staines with toddler and baby • Chertsey Bookshop, 95-99 Guildford sessions, baby signing, baby massage, Street, first aid training and dad’s group, www.chertseybookshop.co.uk/home/ www.bucklandchildrenscentre.com with café and small soft play area. • SureStart at Clarendon Children’s Centre, Knapp Road, Ashford with Swimming: baby-friendly Postnatal classes, play and learn swimming pools and lessons sessions, Dad’s brunch and parent • Staines: Spelthorne Leisure Centre, groups, www.clarendoncc.co.uk/ Knowle Green - 25m pool and shallow • Chertsey Children’s’ and SureStart pool with large, animal shaped floats, Centre - www.everyoneactive.com/tabid/656/defa www.chertsey.surrey.sch.uk/schedule.ht ult.aspx ml • Windsor: Leisure Centre - Main pool with • The Village Centre, Harvest Road, wave machine and slides plus separate Englefield Green, fitness pool, http://www.villagecentre.org.uk Toddler www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/wlc_pools.htm groups and cafe • Bracknell: Coral Reef – Coral pools, fast • Hythe Fields Gospel Hall, Tuesday Tots, flowing water, snake river flumes, rapids 10-12am Thorpe Road, Egham Hythe, and Little Corals toddlers pools with Surrey TW20 8BN large yellow diving bell and drench http://www.hythecommunitychurch.org.u buckets, www.bracknell- k/index.php/community/tuesday-tots forest.gov.uk/leisure/leis-coral-reef.htm • Bagshot: Jakes Indoor Playworld, • Woking: Woking Park, Kingfield Road, http://www.jakesplayworld.com / 01276 main pool, three flumes, indoor 453 555 rapids/lazy river, bubble pool, fountains • Bracknell: The Lookout Discovery and wave machine, Centre, www.bracknell- www.woking.gov.uk/leisure/leisurecentre forest.gov.uk/lookout / 01344 354400 pool/thingspool/pooltimetables • Hersham: Piglets Play Centre, • Seriously Fun: Riverbourne Health Club http://www.pigletsplaycentre.co.uk/ in Chertsey and The Thames Club in 01932 241 323 Staines, www.seriouslyfun.net/ 01753 • Chertsey: FunTots at The Hub for under 251021 5s with separate baby area,

20120518 v2.1 • Aquatots: Matthew Arnold School, Presents/Keepsakes Staines, www.aquatots.com • Timeless Casting: Foot and hand casting • Baby Swimming: Ashford Hospital with home visits or at Caroline’s home in physiotherapy pool, Weybridge. Contact Caroline on www.babyswimming.co.uk 07957900646. • Waterbabies: www.waterbabies.co.uk • Smallprint: Silver jewellery with baby’s imprint www.smallp.co.uk Online/Forums • Genevieve’s Gallery / Paint A Baby: www.nct.org.uk Englefield Green Painting/hand or www.netmums.com footprints, 01784 430516 www.babycentre.co.uk www.bounty.com Twins www.kellymom.com • Walton and District Twins club. www.waltontwinsclub.org/ Pregnancy & Postnatal • Gemini Plus Twins club based in Exercise Classes Windsor, 07507-463135 / info@gemini- • Harmony Studio, Arthur Road, Windsor plus.rog.uk for pregnancy, postnatal and baby yoga www.yogaforharmony.co.uk/class-info Homebirth Support • Windsor Leisure Centre run antenatal www.northsurreyhomebirth.org.uk and postnatal yoga classes and aqua- Tel: 01932 567244 / 234720 aerobics • www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/wlc_fitness_clas ses_programme.htm and NCT Staines Ashford and Egham Branch www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/wlc_pools_timet Supporting you to become the parent you able.htm#AntePost_Natal want to be • Yoga Babes run courses in Walton and Staines, www.yogababes.co.uk / 07961 Disclaimer: The list has been compiled by 528216 members’ comments, it does not represent an • Satvikananda Saraswati runs pregnancy endorsement from the NCT. If you have any comments to add, please email: and baby yoga classes in Ottershaw and [email protected]. Virginia Water, www.satvikyoga.co.uk / 01932 872587 Photography courtesy of Tina Boulton • BuggyFit: circuit walks with exercises in Windsor Park suitable when pregnant and with babies in their buggies, www.buggyfit.co.uk/find-a- class/trainer/?id=84&lid=144 • Bracknell Coral Reef pool runs antenatal and postnatal aqua aerobics, www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/leisure/leis- coral-reef/leis-coral-reef-exercise- classes.htm • Simple Changes run Mums to be exercise classes and Yummy Mummy + Baby circuit training, www.simple- changes.co.uk/Classes.aspx

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