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News: Read our February Half Term feature with a summary of what’s on during the half term holiday in Brighton;
the Brighton & Hove Children’s Festival is back! Save the dates – 6th-15th April 2012
Child Friendly Brighton and Hove provides comprehensive and up-to-date listings for a wide range of child friendly things to do, places to visit, places to eat and drink, activities, places to stay and fun days out in Brighton and Hove. If you need some fresh ideas on what to do with your children today in Brighton and Hove, then this is the site for you. Find out what’s on for kids in Brighton today by checking the current and upcoming events page for a great range of events for children, special activities and child friendly festivals coming to our area soon (lots of February half term fun events on website already!), or browse through the other links for scheduled baby groups, toddler groups, special interest classes, fun days out, and places to eat in Brighton including child friendly pubs, restaurants, cafes and hotels (including kids eat / stay for free offers). Use the calendar as an alternative way of finding things to do in Brighton, and what’s happening on a particular date, and why not join the discussion board to chat about our City and what it has to offer? This website is updated frequently (at least every week, sometimes on a daily basis), to keep the content accurate and current! For instance, some of the news, listings and events for kids added this week beginning 23rd January 2012: Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, the Great Brighton Pizza Competition!, half term fun during the Brighton Science Festival, Officreche flexible co-working space, the Sundae Club at Komedia, 4th March, Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival 2012 – dates announced!, RNLI Pirates Day!
And take a look at our expanding Featured Services and Retail section which has a wide variety of businesses including kids’ hairdressers, photographers, home decor designers, nannies, childcare and babysitters, publishers of children’s books, and makers of children’s gifts and accessories (and much more!)
If you are a provider of activities for children in Brighton and Hove such as parent and baby/toddler groups, activity classes, or you run a child friendly café, restaurant, pub or hotel, and you would like details to be listed on this site, please contact me.
If you would like to see other child friendly categories listed here, please let me know! I also want to know if you have visited somewhere I have listed, and found it not to be child friendly after all.
January & February events in Brighton and Hove:
Seasonal shows, pantomimes, events and activities for kids during January
There are lots of things to do in Brighton and Hove during the winter season. See the January 2012 what’s on calendar page for child friendly pantomimes, theatre shows, and other events for families. The Brighton Royal Pavilion Ice Skating Rink remains open until 22nd January, Holiday on Ice “Energia” is on at the Brighton Centre, and there are some great exhibitions at the museums in Brighton and Hove. There are several child friendly activities and events taking place on 21st January to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2012 (Year of The Dragon), see the calendar for details.
FEBRUARY HALF TERM ACTIVITIES in BRIGHTON 2012
See the February calendar for lots of half term activities & events for children in Brighton and Hove! The week is packed with festival activities, art activities at our libraries, and much more. We also have a blog feature which pulls together all the February half term events and holiday clubs / workshops on one convenient page: http://www.childfriendlybrighton.co.uk/february-half-term-activities-for-children-in-brighton-and-hove
Launch of the Great Brighton Pizza Competition!
The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival has teamed up with Donatello to launch a competition to find an all-new Brighton inspired pizza for this summer!
Primary school children in Brighton and Hove are being invited to enter by drawing and annotating their idea, and the winning pizza will be announced during the Spring Harvest food festival week, which runs city wide from Friday 30 March – Monday 9 April 2012. The newly crowned Great Brighton Pizza will be on sale in Donatello from April – September, with a donation to Rockinghorse for every purchase! Read more…
And see below for news about FESTIVALS taking place in Brighton and Hove from February onwards.
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Check the Latest News section for competitions, discounts off classes, activities and services exclusive to Child Friendly Brighton!
COMPETITION TO WIN! A free term of swimming lessons for your child at the little swim school in Brighton! To enter, all you need to do is answer the following simple question: what is one of the qualifications that all teachers at the little swim school have? Clue: you might find the answer in the little swim school listing
Please send your answer, along with your name, full postal address, telephone number, and age of your child, by email to shosh@childfriendlybrighton.co.uk. Deadline for entries: 5pm on Monday 13th February. See the little swim school listing for more details.
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FESTIVALS 2012
Brighton has a phenomenal array of family friendly festivals each year, and 2012 is no exception! Festival season will be well and truly upon us very shortly, and we don’t have to wait until the summer to enjoy them. Brighton and Hove is home to some major and renowned festivals, and Child Friendly Brighton will be bringing you up to date news about them all.
The Brighton Science Festival 2012 runs throughout February, and will be full of explosive family fun events. We have a handy summary of the Family Fun Days throughout half term week in February, designed for parents and kids to enjoy together. Its all about bridging the gap between science and people, and making science absolutely fascinating to children. All events are also on the February 2012 what’s on calendar.
The Brighton Food and Drink Festival returns with its’ Spring Harvest Festival 30th March – 9th April, and will include lots of fun for children and families, including the Great Brighton Pizza Competition, Live Food Show ‘Dinky Demos’ and the Children’s Food Festival!
The Brighton & Hove Children’s Festival – Child Friendly Brighton is very proud to announce that the Brighton & Hove Children’s Festival will be on 6th-15th April 2012! It is a 10-day multi arts festival for children under 11 and their families, with a fantastic programme of events across Brighton & Hove with the main programme taking place at Komedia.
The Brighton Fringe is the third largest open-access multi-art form festival in the world. In 2012 it will be running between 5th and 27th May 2012, and there will be plenty of family friendly and kids shows and events for us all to enjoy.
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TRAVEL INFORMATION:
The Brighton and Hove City Council has a great on-line travel planner, easy to use, it will plan your route to and from any location in the City (including walking, cycling, bus, train or car) so if you are not sure of some of the locations for activities listed on my website, please try out www.journeyon.co.uk.
Brighton and Hove City council and Sussex Safer Roads Partnership provide excellent information packs & guides for parents, regarding road safety, covering all ages from toddler right up to teens. It produces road safety guides & training for pedestrians, cyclists and scooter training! Training sessions (child pedestrian and bikeability and scooter training sessions are held in schools as well as bikeability sessions in parks during the school holidays):
Cycle training in Schools, & in parks during the holidays
Bump to Toddler information pack
What to do when it’s raining!
Want some ideas for fun things to do with the kids when it’s raining in Brighton? Check out the categories in the “indoor activities” section for some activities appropriate for wet and windy weather! This site lists a great variety of groups and classes for babies, toddlers and pre-school children, such as music groups, arts and crafts, cookery, dance and drama. Or take your toddler to a soft play session. Our cinemas have weekly screenings specifically for children too, some with kids clubs! The museums in Brighton and Hove are running numerous free activities and events including ‘Big Draw’ sessions. And of course the Early Years sessions are still running (although admission charges apply for these). Throughout the autumn and winter months, and our libraries have regular free story time sessions and music groups such as Baby Boogie as well as craft activities and play sessions.
In the press:
Read features by Child Friendly Brighton in Brighton Visitor Magazine and the Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival brochure!
Food Allergies:
Does your child suffer from food allergies? Check out the discussion board where you can find some recommendations on places to eat in Brighton and Hove which cater for allergies and food sensitivities in children. I’ve been doing some further research into this recently, and will be adding very soon!