NEW CLASSES!!

New courses are starting in Birmngham, Solihull and Beaconsfield and now up and running in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. In fact we've got new classes starting all over the country!

To find your nearest class input your postcode on the Pools and Dates page.

Voting for Water Babies Starts in February 2009

Thank you so much to those of you who nominated us for the WO4LO 'Best National Baby Development Activity', for which voting starts in February. Don't forget that you can also nominate your own instructor in the 'Most Outstanding Activity or Class Leader'. Do you love her or him? Well then do please log onto http://www.whatson4littleones.co.uk/awards.asp right now if you want to show your appreciation!

Water Babies Classes Save Two Children's Lives Summer '08

We've always known that teaching your baby to swim is incredibly important, because you're giving them a core life-saving skill, from birth. Luckily it's now something the rest of the UK knows too!

Within the last ten days, two parents have contacted us, telling us that their two year olds fell into water (the first into a canal, the second into the family pool). In both cases the children were calmly sculling on the water's surface when found, a good few minutes later. It makes us immensely proud that we have helped two families save the lives of their children. So, thanks for doing the right thing and teaching them to swim from birth; and, thanks for letting us know! See links to the right to see the second story which featured across the national press.

Thanks to Everyone Who Voted for Us - Spring '08

Water Babies has been nominated as the UK's best swimming class and was specially commended in the best baby development category. For more information and great ideas of other classes to try look at www.whatson4littleones.co.uk

Water Babies start in Sydney - Jan '08

We might have to be called something slightly different (www.aquababies.com.au), but it's exactly the same course and philosophies. So if you like what we do over here and have any friends over there, do let them know about us! 

Another Storming Tommy's Fundraiser - Sept '07

Thank you so, so much to all our wonderful clients who've helped raise an astonishing £87,000 for Tommy's this year.

Our top fundraiser was Hayden Feakin, from Milton Keynes, who raised an incredible £800 (a big thank you to his daddy's work for helping out as well)

Water Babies are invited to Downing Street - April '07

Jess and Paul were thrilled to be invited along to Downing Street in April to meet Gordon and Sarah Brown. The event was hosted by Tommy’s in recognition of the fundraising efforts of all its supporters – not least so many of you, our fabulously enthusiastic Water Babies clients. We’ll keep you posted on the results of our Splashathon efforts this year – already looking extremely good!

Do we have an Olympic Champion?! - August '07

Well we always joke that Water Babies isn't about creating the next top class swimmer, but it looks like we might have created one anyway! Ella Stuttard who swam with us for the first three years of her life has just swum one mile in just over a hour. We're still checking to see whether, at just five, she's the youngest person in the world to have achieved such a remarkable feat. A huge well done Ella - we always remember you (and mum Rachel) as one of our very first little swimmers, and we're incrediby proud of you. Have a look at Ella in the Daily Mail piece.

Water Babies in the Press - July '07

It's been a busy time for us recently. Not only were we in the Daily Express recently but also The Guardian (with our very own Kim Bennett subsequently appearing on BBC Breakfast news as well.) Thanks so much to all our babies, parents and instructors who helped get the shots for the Guardian piece. It sounds like you all had a really good time!

Water Babies in Wiltshire Achieve a Distinction - July '07

A huge congratulations to Claire, Steve and the rest of the team for achieving their STAMark with a distinction - despite only starting last April. They were told they were a 'delight to assess' and that they didn't shout about their extraordinary achievements loud enough - so we thought we'd shout for them!

Tommy's - June 2007

It's Splashathon time again! Given that you all did such a storming job of fundraising for them last year, we're very much hoping to repeat it this May and June. Sponsorship forms will be available soon, or you can create your own online sponsorship page so friends and family can sponsor you via the web.

December 2006

Having just cycled 300 miles across India in aid of UNICEF, I know how hard it is raising money. So well done to Lancastrian, Neil Dawkins, and his little girl Nema. Together with some friends they are swimming the equivalent of the channel in their local pool. (Nema's just doing one length I hasten to add!) So far they've raised over £4,000 for their local hospice - a fantastic achievement.

November 2006 

Tommy's Splashathon

Even though the money's still trickling in, we've decided it's time to draw a line under our fundraising total, and announce that it's a storming £53,074.26; more than a third of the total £150,000 raised by the 500 companies who took part this year.
Huge congratulations and thank you to everyone who took part. Liverpool in particular were amazing and deserve special praise. With a final total of just over £10,000, they achieved the highest figure raised by any single public or private swim school in the country.

October 2006

Water Babies Boom

It's official, Water Babies is now the UK's largest baby swim school, with over 80 instructors teaching nearly 8,000 babies a week. This is in line with the huge increase in baby swimming that's occuring generally, with 85% more parents taking part now than just two years ago.