Suppliers Directory

When you are setting up your out of school club, it can take time to track down all the equipment that you need. To help get you started we have put together a directory of suppliers of products and services relevant to out of school settings. (Note that providers of training courses are listed on the Training Providers page.)

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Furniture

IKEA
An excellent source of good quality, affordable furniture and housewares, including storage units, shelving, blankets, cushions, beakers, plates, and toys.
www.ikea.com

Community Playthings
Beautiful, high-quality, wooden furniture, including shelving, gyms, easels, building blocks and room dividers.
www.communityplaythings.co.uk

Early Years Direct
Provides flat-packed wooden furniture, including bookcases, shelving, playtables and building blocks.
www.earlyyearsdirect.com

Roma Contract Furniture
Manufactures quality, upholstered children's furniture—cubes, cylinders, interlocking rounded shapes—all in bright colours.
www.romacontractfurniture.co.uk

Building Additions
Manufactures and installs folding partition doors—ideal if you have a large space that you need to divide for separate activities.
www.buildingadditions.co.uk

Magic Whiteboards
Superb solution for clubs operating in shared premises: use the magic whiteboard products as drawing surfaces, temporary displayboards, noticeboards and signage. Quick to put up and take down, they leave no marks or residue behind.
www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk

Blue Butterfly Flooring
Stunning photo-printed flooring featuring hyper-realistic scenes of rock pools, forest glades and grassy meadows. Available as carpets, vinyl flooring, table-cloths and door mats.
www.bluebutterflyflooring.com

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Toys, games and play equipment

Direct Educational Services
Educational toys and resources, and a good selection of outdoor games.
www.des-uk-shop.com

Kites for Schools
Excellent value kits for making easy-to-fly kites. Ideal activity for out of school clubs.
www.kitesforschools.co.uk

Creative Cascade
Innovative and high quality water-play equipment including the Funky Fountain, also fun welly-storage solutions!
www.creativecascade.co.uk

Data Harvest Group
Good selection of construction kits with a 'science' theme: K'NEX, Fischertechnik, etc.
www.data-harvest.co.uk

Newitts & Co
Educational fitness and play equipment in bright primary colours: parachutes, skipping ropes, all sorts of balls, bean bags, ball pools etc.
www.newitts.com

Mindstretchers
Sells a comprehensive range of enticing packs and kits to get children really interacting with the outdoors, including wood working tools, mini hammocks, fire bowls, rope and pulley kits etc.
www.mindstretchers.co.uk

Kids Fitness Fun
Has a carefully selected range of high quality toys which encourage children to exercise and be healthy and active.
www.kidsfitnessfun.co.uk

Step by Step
Early years products, educational toys and games, indoor and outdoor play equipment, and much more.
www.sbs-educational.co.uk

TTS Group
Outdoor play equipment, beautiful wooden playhouses and play systems, wooden furniture, craft supplies and loads of 'small world' sets.
www.tts-shopping.com

Hope Education
A wide selection of play equipment, craft supplies, and toys and games.
www.hope-education.co.uk

NES Arnold
Offers a good range of resources for out of school clubs: activity packs, play equipment, toys and games, storage units etc.
www.nesarnold.co.uk

Sweet Counter
Colourful educational resources made from laminated card - transform your walls and play areas into learning zones. Also offer a wide selection of images to download for worksheets etc.
www.sweetcounter.co.uk

Teaching Off the Wall
Sells an enormous range of posters, decorative borders and display items on all sorts of education-related topics. A good source of display materials to personalise your club setting.
www.teachingoffthewall.co.uk

KidEco
A fantastic range of play houses, castles, puppet theatres—and even rockets—all made out of cardboard. Being made of robust cardboard the toys are environmentally friendly whilst being very cost effective. www.cardboardtoys.com

TubTrugs
These large, soft pastic buckets are ideal for storing play equipment, blankets etc, but are also brilliant playthings in their own right— watch the children at your club turn them into boats, tortoise shells, helmets etc. www.tubtrugs.com

Fine Solutions
Provides a wide range of products for early years settings: toys, furniture, art and craft supplies, posters and much more.
www.finesolutions.co.uk

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Art and craft materials

Baker Ross
The widest selection of children's art and craft supplies, all at great prices. A good source of seasonally themed craft activities.
www.bakerross.co.uk

Yellow Moon
Offers the same stock as Baker Ross but raises funds for your club or organisation.
www.yellowmoon.org.uk

Castle Hill Crafts
Has a fantastic selection of display backgrounds, borders and craft papers, as well as jewellery making and other craft supplies, all at very competitive prices.
www.castlehillcrafts.co.uk

Kids Craft Box
A site dedicated to craft kits for children: especially good for Shrinkle materials and accessories, and for foam craft.
www.kidscraftbox.co.uk

Art2Go
Supplies art and craft materials at trade discount prices to schools and educational establishments wishing to buy in bulk.
www.art2go-uk.com

Doodle World
Manufactures aprons in a wide range of sizes - ideal for art and craft activities. Also sells craft supplies and ride on toys.
www.doodle-world.com

Kids Cooking Co
Unique range of children's cookware providing children with the perfect tools for cooking activities.
www.kidscookingco.co.uk

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Books

Featherstone Education
Educational materials for teachers, early years practitioners and parents to use with children from birth to eight. Lots of ideas for activities, games and crafts.
www.acblack.com/featherstone

The Book People
A good source of books for children at discount prices.
www.thebookpeople.co.uk

Red House Books
Great value children's books.
www.redhouse.co.uk

BulkBuyBooks
Good selection of children's books at wholesale prices. Best discounts are for multi-buys of the same title but you can telephone them to negotiate a further reduction if you buy a mixed order of different titles.
www.bulkbuybooks.co.uk

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Play areas

As Good as Grass
Supplies and installs synthetic grass and safety flooring for children's play areas.
www.asgoodasgrass.co.uk

Billy Bounce Safety Surfaces
Brightly coloured, wet-pour safety surfaces for children's play areas.
www.billybounce.co.uk

Garrick Outdoor
Manufactures a range of outdoor shelters, canopies and outdoor classrooms.
www.garrickoutdoor.co.uk

Timotay Landscapes
Designs and constructs play areas and play gardens.
www.timotaylandscapes.co.uk

AddGards
Suppliers of the Kiddi Train Space Dividers: plastic fence panels clip together to create safe temporary play areas, indoors or out.
www.addgards.com

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Health and safety

Gompels HealthCare
Health and hygiene products including first aid kits, antibacterial sprays and janitorial supplies.
www.gompels.co.uk

TEAL Patents
Warm-water handwash units especially designed for children - ideal if you need to provide additional hand-washing facilities at your club. Also free downloadable activities relating to handwashing and hygiene.
www.kiddiwash.co.uk

ToyGuard
Supplies a wide range of hygiene and first aid supplies as well as toy sanitising products. Also offer deep clean and decontamination services if the worst should happen! Their website also has a lot of useful general information on hygiene, handwashing, and activities for children.
www.toyguard.co.uk

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Miscellaneous

Costco Wholesale
Discount warehouse for businesses. Good source of catering supplies, toys, cleaning products etc at low prices.
www.costco.co.uk

Festival Shop
Useful source of multicultural resources: posters, books, CDs, craft materials etc.
www.festivalshop.co.uk

Childcare Managers
Acts as a 'virtual HR department' for childcare settings, providing help and professional advice with recruitment, pay and benefits, payroll, staff management and professional development.
www.childcaremanagers.co.uk