Just a quick post to say thanks to everyone who made the London Taxi Drivers ball such a huge success last night.

Amanda with TOWIE star, Lauren Pope

Celebrities from the tv and media turned up in their droves to support the cause which helps children with special needs. The London Taxi Drivers Fund for Underprivilleged Children (LTFUC) has been helping children since 1928 and last night marked another successful event in their long history.

Amanda was thrilled to be a part of the occasion and got everybody into a great mood with her unique partygames, music and infectious enthusiasm. Anyone who knows Amanda knows how much she enjoys working with children with Special Needs and that she is keen to do much more work in that area.

Amanda found the night rewarding and inspiring and hopes some of the contacts she made on the night will lead to more similar appearances in the near future.

It turned out the tv cameras were at the event and Amanda turned up later that evening on the ITV news. You just can’t keep her out of the headlines!

Amanda monkeys around!

Who's the cheekiest?

Today, Amanda is excited to announce a new partnership with dutch, cargo bike manufacturers Babboe.

The partnership enables you as Amanda’s Action Club followers to save £349 when buying a Babboe.

Babboe bikes are a great way for mums to incorporate fitness into their daily routine and make the kids happy too.

With a Babboe bike a mum to young children can do all the little, local jobs (shopping, school runs etc) by pedal power. No more parking hassles and traffic nightmares to spoil your day.

So Amanda was happy to team up with Babboe to give families great savings on Babboe bikes and encourage more families to get and stay fit.

If you’re curious and would like to try a Babboe bike out then why not turn up at one of Babboe’s open days and get in the saddle.  Alternatively you can call the Babboe office on 0207 6109190 to arrange a free, private trial.

WWW.BABBOE.CO.UK

Amanda had a very exciting lunch today with a particularly inspiring lady.

The woman in question is Kathryn Mewes, a new breed of children’s nanny. She’s what the yellow pages would call a ‘bespoke nanny’.

Kathryn typically enters a family home for up to 72 hours and gets busy making changes. She helps children from 6 months to 12 years with all manner of issues from sleeping and eating problems to basic, poor discipline and gets very positive results.

“Children are a joy when you guide them to make the correct choices which benefit the entire family.” Says Kathryn.

Amanda was so taken with Kathryn that she wants to do everything she can to promote her. Their values are uncannily alike and they are both equally passionate about improving family life.

In a nutshell, choosing a healthy lifestyle in a fun and practical way is what Amanda and Kathryn both think Life is all about.

For more information or to contact Kathryn Mewes go to: www.bespokenanny.com

Amanda will be supporting a very special event this Sunday 10th July. Chiswick-based charity, The Microloan Foundation is attempting to break the world record for laying pennies in a line.

The goal is to lay 50 miles of pennies! This will all be happening in Chiswick Community school this weekend. And you’re invited to take part. To get involved go to http://microloanfoundation.org.uk/How-you-can-help/PenniesForLife_Home/EnteraTeam

Amanda has volunteered to entertain the little ones from 9.45 to 10.30 on Sunday. Do come down and support this great cause – it should be loads of fun.

A massive congratulations to everyone involved in making today’s Big Toddle at Brent Lodge Park, Hanwell such a great success. Amanda had a ball with all the children during the sponsored walk in the Summer sunshine. And all for such a great cause – the Barnado’s Big Toddle is the UK’s biggest charity fundraising event for the Under-5′s.

All the money raised by over half a million participants around the UK today will go to helping young children most in need. Now there’s something worth supporting.

A massive thank you to everyone involved in Kidz South 2011 – I spent a wonderful day at your exhibition in Reading last Thursday.  It was very uplifting to see how much is being done to help disabled children get the most out of their lives – a subject close to my heart as everyone knows.

Amanda at Kidz South 2011

While I enjoyed meeting many children on the day it was a young boy called Charlie who stole my heart. Charlie has type 2 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) which means his muscles are weak and degenerating.  At 16 months old he can’t do anything but sit, his muscles are so weak. Even eating and going to the toilet are difficult for him.  He has so much to deal with at such a young age but he has tremendous spirit and joy too.  I decided to give him a free Amanda’s Action Club Party I was so impressed by him.  If you want to know more you can email eddyb1985@btinternet.com.

An early ‘heads-up’ to get this date into your social diary! There’s to be another of Amanda’s action-packed Family Extravaganzas coming up soon.  It’ll be featuring fun, dancing, games and entertainment for all and it takes place at London’s fabulous Clapham Grand on Saturday, 12th March 2011 … between 2:00pm and 5:00pm.

UPDATE 30th January 2011: AMANDA’S FAMILY EXTRAVAGANZA AT LONDON’S CLAPHAM GRAND NIGHTCLUB

Saturday 12th March 2011,  2:00pm to 5:00pm – live entertainment for the whole family including:

* Action Amanda of Amanda’s Action Club
* Popstar Alison Wheeler of the Beautiful South
* The UK’s no.1 Michael Jackson impersonator, Danny Oliver
* Dance-supremo Will Baki
* Zumba-instructor Fu Lin
* Plus healthy food by Fait Maison
* Photos by JFM Photolab
* Tickets £10 per head
* Call 0844 847 2438
* Visit: ticketweb.co.uk

Clapham Grand Family Extravaganza – Event Details:
Date: Saturday 12th March 2011
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Clapham Grand, 21-25 St John’s Hill, Clapham Junction, London, SW11 1TT
Cost: £10 per head
Booking Details: Call 0844 847 2438 or visit: ticketweb.co.uk

For further information, contact 0785 527 6837.

Betty (a London based Independent TV production company) are looking for parents of babies or toddlers, aged 3 or under, who struggle to feed their children healthy food.  If this sounds like you or someone you know, please contact:
Cheryl on 020 7290 0573
Text 07539 352 125

Betty is an independent TV production company making award-winning documentaries, factual entertainment, features and drama. This is a BBC3 parenting documentary Betty are making about improving the diet of babies and toddlers.  They are presently concentrating their efforts on finding the families to take part and once in place they will be in a position to look for experts that could improve the baby & toddler diet and health. Betty only have a few weeks to find the families so Amanda is offering her support to Betty and has agreed to spread the word via her enormously popular Blog (see attached PDF for more details - http://www.amandasactionclub.co.uk/pdf/betty.pdf ).
 
Betty is a highly-respected TV company with credits including the critically-acclaimed adoption series Find Me a Family (Channel 4), Country House Rescue (Channel 4) and Truly, Madly, Deeply (Channel 4), a RADAR award-winning film about a unique dating agency for people with learning difficulties. Bringing large audiences to important issues affecting our society is at the core of our company ethos.

If this sounds like you or someone you know, please contact:
Cheryl on 020 7290 0573
Text 07539 352 125

Tommy Hollis Duck Day October 2010

The Duck Day Fundraiser on Sunday 10 October was a huge success, raising over £2,400 for the Tommy Hollis Charitable Fund! Thank you so much to everyone who bought a ticket and came along to give their support, on the day. The fund supports underprivileged children and bereaved parents by giving money to existing charities.

Visit the fund’s website at http://www.tommyholisfund.co.uk to see their fundraising efforts so far and what charities they have chosen to support. Keep checking back over the next few months to see who the Duck Day money has helped!

Duck Day will be back next year so if you missed it this time round we’ll hope to see you then! Anyone wishing to make a donation to the fund can do so via Gymboree Chiswick at the Town Hall.

The day would not have been possible without the help and support of Hounslow Council and Fusion Lifestyle who donated the venue for free and helped enormously with publicity. Our thanks to various local shops and businesses for raffle prizes; wonderful David of West4 Printers for his fabulous posters and tickets; and to the trustees of the fund for their tireless efforts.

Join Gymboree Chiswick or the Tommy Hollis Fund on Facebook to see more fantastic pictures of the day, all taken by Snappy Snaps Studio Chiswick. We are very proud to have been able to support the Tommy Hollis Fund and hope the 2010 Duck Day will be the first of many ventures to fundraise on their behalf!

I couldn’t wait to update my Blog to tell you all how well the free ‘taster’ sessions at Huggle went yesterday: they were a huge success with over 20 children in each class. The Huggle venue in Swiss Cottage is really contemporary with lots of natural light and everybody just loved the atmosphere. It was great to meet the North West London mums and nannies too, if we get this kind of turn-out next week we may even need to run three classes due to the demand – whoopee!

Class Details: every Wednesday @ Huggle, on a ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ basis

Class Times: 10:00am – 10:45 am & 11:00am – 11:45am
Prices: one child @ £10 and £18 for two children.
Age Range: 4 months – 4 years
Special Offer: 5 x class pass for one child £45 ( a saving of £5) and £80 for two children (a saving of £10).
Location: Huggle, 8-10 Winchester Road, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3NT

For more information call Amanda on 07946 707695.

PS: Remember, Amanda and her team are available for children’s birthday parties and you can purchase her albums through Huggle or through the Amanda Shop in this website.