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Startup of the Week - YoungPlanet
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th March 2021
YoungPlanet is an app that "enables parents to put no longer used children’s things to good use with new families and away from landfill, for free".
With Spring firmly on its way, many of us will be turning our attention to spring cleaning and decluttering. And if you've got children there'll no doubt be lots of things that are taking up space that they've either outgrown or no lo...
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Peppy helps you find qualified and vetted health practitioners
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th May 2020
Peppy is an innovative startup that's on a mission is to make it easier for people to get support from qualified and vetted health practitioners...
Some groups of people are particularly affected by the current lockdown. Those with mental health struggles or those who are in a form of isolation already due to various factors such as ill health, advanced age, or even new parents with a baby taki...
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Frolo aims to bring single parents all together
by: Startacus Admin ~ 26th June 2019Frolo is a social networking app on a mission to connect single parents to likeminded single parents living in the same area...
We have written in the past about networks for parents to share news and tips, to meet up, and to simply talk with other parents. For example, Mush, a social network dedicated to new mums (and parents fullstop).
Single parenting, though, has its unique challen...
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1 in 10 UK kids spend more than 50 hours a week in front of a screen
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th February 20191 in 10 UK children are spending more than 50 hours per week watching TV, playing video games or interacting with a smartphone according to the findings of a report looking at the relationships between parents and technology conducted by Care.com, an online marketplace for finding and managing family care.
The report, which quizzed more than 800 parents in Britain about the role of technology in ...
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Huckletree Supports Parentpreneurs with Power Parents workspace Membership
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th February 2018Workspace accelerator group Huckletree has launched a new membership offering for working parents, in its new space in West London.
Huckletree West in White City provides both shared workspaces and private studios to digital lifestyle businesses and now offers a Kids’ Studio where parents can work while their pre-school children play.
For just £175 a month working parents (...
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Happity wants to make finding baby and toddler groups child's play
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th September 2017Find local baby & toddler groups. Fast. Happity aims to make it easy for parents & carers to find accurate info on what's on for their kids. According to Happity, parents in the UK spend c.£2bn on organised activities for pre-school aged children, yet finding these classes is like a needle in a haystack. Their two-sided online marketplace targets the under-5 market specifically ...
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Ignore No More- A digital time-out for kids
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th August 2014Sharon Standifird is a mum that you definitely don’t want to mess with.
From her time serving in the Gulf War to scaling Mount Kilimanjaro, she meets life's challenges with headstrong determination and a ‘failure is not an option’ type mentality.
Most recently Sharon has added an unexpected string to her proverbial bow, and is taking the world by storm with the simplistic geniu...
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