Amanda’s Action Kids tomorrow, Sunday 18th May at 11:00 AM …and it’s FREE! - at the Paddling Pool, Duke’s Meadows , off Alexandra Gardens, London, W4 2RX (Nearest Tube Station: Turnham Green). 

Amanda will be supporting the Duke’s Meadows Summer Fun events programme this Sunday,  where kids can get fit in her lively session set to a soundtrack of nursery rhyme classics and the latest pop songs, accompanied by a variety of props and musical instruments. Age 4 months to 5 years but parents are welcome to join in. There’s a café and farmers’ market nearby for replacing energy burned off.
 

The creation of the pool is the culmination of 6 years work by the local community through the Friends of Duke’s Meadows. The £380,000 cost of the project was funded through the Friends social enterprises such as the Sunday Farmers & Fine Foods Market and grants from the London Marathon Trust, Living Spaces, Garfield Weston Foundation, Brett Trust and Hounslow Council. Stanhope PLC donated trees and shrubs to landscape the area.

Duke’s Meadows Trust have established a regular farmers’ market in the yard in front of the Masonian Bowls Club on Duke’s Meadow. This is a particularly apt place for such a market since the building used to be the stores for the market gardens that once thrived in the area. It provides a regular stream of revenue, opening up a range of new possibilities for the charity to improve the Meadows.

The market is held on Sundays from 10am to 2pm and can be reached from the path beside Cavendish School or from Edensor Road through Promenade Approach.

Travelling by Public Transport?

1. Nearest Tube Station: Turnham Green.
2. From Chiswick High Road: take the E3 bus to Edensor Road and use the Promenade Approach Road entrance.
3. From Hammersmith or Richmond: take the 190 bus and  get off at the nearest stop to Edensor Road.
4. By main line train (South West Trains): use either Chiswick or Barnes Bridge Stations. From Chiswick Station take the short journey by E3 bus: or from Barnes Bridge, cross the river and take the tow-path to Hammersmith past the Bandstand to an open stretch of park-land where you’ll find the sign directing you to the water play area.

Enjoy your time in Duke’s Meadow with Amanda - she’s ‘brill’ and whatsmore …it’s absolutely FREE!  Hope the weather’s nice!

If you live in Stanmore and you’ve heard about Amanda’s classes and just wished that there was one nearer to you  - well guess what… there’s one coming down your way starting on Wednesday 7th May 2008.

If you’ve got a toddler aged between 4m - 3½ yrs, then get yourself along to Bernays Memorial Hall, 25 The Broadway, Stanmore, HA7 4AU (next to Sainsburys) between 10am - 10.45am commencing on 7th May and you’ll have the pleasure of classes taken by Lisa, every Wednesday (Term time only). 

Class fees are £5.00 per child with a ‘family’ price for 2 children of just £9.00. 

For any further information - please call Sarah on 0776 9658790 or email sarah@amandasactionkids.co.uk.

All those of you who are fans of that lovely Mark Owen of Take That will no doubt recall that he reached number three in the UK charts with his debut single, “Child” in 1996. What you may not know is that Mark now has a child of his own (18 month old Elwood Jack Owen) and Amanda was thrilled today when they both turned up to Amanda’s class in Wandsworth.   Don’t know what Mark made of it all but Elwood appeared to enjoy himself enormously:  let’s hope we see them again soon.

PS: if you want to find out more about what Mark’s up to these days - then have a peek at the Mark Owen official website.

A quick ‘heads-up’ for all those of you who regularly go along to Amanda’s super session at Childsplay Cafe in Chiswick on Wednesday afternoons (and also for the interest of anybody who’s not yet been along, but might be thinking of going) - just need to let you know about a slight change to the previous ”payment on the door policy” that affects Amanda’s class.  

It used to be that when you went to Childsplay Cafe at The Hogarth Youth and Community Centre, (end of Duke Road) W4 2JR  - you used to have to make a payment to get into the Centre and you didn’t have to pay any more to attend Amanda’s class.  Well now as a result of a change of policy by Childsplay Cafe, as of last week, that has all changed (whilst Amanda was away on holiday).

How it’ll work now, is that you’ll need to make the payment for Amanda’s class directly to Amanda. So please pay Amanda on arrival and she will issue you with a “paid” wristband to wear throughout the class. Only those who are demonstrably wearing the “paid” wristband will be able to enjoy Amanda’s class.  So please be patient with Amanda as she tries to get everybody (including herself) used to the new payment policy.

NB: Amanda’s class is every Wednesday at Childsplay Cafe from 4:00pm - 4:45pm and is for children of Under 5 years of age: payment is £5 per child or £8 for a ‘family’ of 2 children. You can check out a full list of all of Amanda’s classes  on the Find Out About Classes page of her website. 

Often, people who know Amanda, wonder how she manages to keep all those ‘balls in the air’ at the same  time.  And if you have a look at Amanda’s classes timetable you’ll see that there are at least 16 different classes going on each week - as well as the children’s parties throughout the London area.  As you can imagine, that requires a small corps of part-time dedicated ‘helpers’ to keep the Amanda show on the road, day by day, and to help her cope with any unforeseen eventualities - you know, like sickness, holidays and ‘real-life’ things like that!

Well Amanda’s now at the point where she’s looking to add to her pool of talented part-time helpers in and around London.  So if you’ve ever been to an Amanda class or an Amanda party and thought, “that looks fun” why not consider whether it’s something you’d like to get involved in? 

Typically, you’d need to be able to fill-in on an ad hoc basis for some of Amanda’s classes and /or parties, to cover both planned and unplanned absences and also you’d need :      

• self-employed status
• a driving licence and ready access to your own vehicle
• some free-time in the mornings during school time (for classes support)
• some free-time at weekends (for party support)
• an interest and aptitude for children’s activities and entertaining
• a very flexible approach to being called in at short notice (sometimes) 

If you think this is something you might be interested in (on an ad hoc, part-time basis) why not give Amanda a call on 07946 707 695.