Rainbow Childminding

Just a reminder we have just over 2 weeks left to vote, we are nominated in 2 categories please get your votes in. 1 vote per person/email address. Please share and asks your friends and families to vote as we are just a small setting so all votes are appreciated 🥰🥰

✨ JUST OVER 2 WEEKS TO GO! ✨

Voting is well underway for the Cumbria Baby & Children’s Business Awards 2027 🏆💛

Your votes will decide which incredible businesses make it through as our 2027 FINALISTS! 🎉

⏰ Voting closes at 9am on Friday 4th September, so there’s still time to get your vote in and support your favourites!

Every vote counts — so if you haven’t voted yet, make sure you do before the deadline! 💫

💛 Good luck to all of our amazing nominees! 💛

That’s us now on annual leave all messages and enquiries will be answered on our return from w/c 24/08/26

Happy 4th birthday to our very own princess pink girl! We have you’ve had a magical day and are missing you like crazy. # # #

Yesterday we had a couple of our big ones for holiday care, although they are more like family/staff than childminding children as they like to help out where they can, from helping plan our day to helping organise plates, and food for lunch to wanting help wash the dishes and tidy up as well as help look after the children (but no nappies as they are just for the adults to do!! Their works not mine but 100% agree with them 🤣) We are very lucky to have kind, caring, responsible young children wanting to help so much.

Something for the little ones (and big one too!)

Don’t forget, it’s our annual Station Open Day on Saturday 15th August 2026!

There is loads planned, and further information will be released nearer the time.

Expect lots of fun activities, and special guests including Cumbria Police Specialist Search Dogs North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Blood Bikes Cumbria.

Entry for the general public will be from 11am, but we are also hosting a quieter, sensory friendly hour for those with special needs from 10am-11am.

Please share!

For anyone wanting to vote for us the link is below.

Thank you to all my current, past and future families for believing in us to care and support you and your children.

🎉 VOTING IS NOW OPEN! 🎉

The time has finally arrived… it’s time to help decide our Cumbria Baby & Children’s Business Awards 2027 Finalists! 🏆✨

Over the next month, your votes will determine which businesses progress to the finalist stage.

⭐ The top 5 businesses in each category will become our finalists.
⭐ The top 10 businesses in both Best Overall Baby Class (Under 1s), Best Overall Toddler Class, Best Rising Star and Best independently Owned Business will go through to the finals.

🗳️ Vote here: https://forms.gle/XVkSzusAc4dzXPzq8

📅 Voting closes at 9:00am on Friday 4th September 2026.

Please remember:
🤍 One vote per person.
🤍 All email addresses will be verified.
🤍 Duplicate or invalid votes will not be counted.

A huge congratulations once again to all of our incredible nominees! Thank you to everyone who nominated, and thank you to everyone taking the time to support the amazing businesses that make such a difference to families across Cumbria and beyond.

Good luck to every nominee – we can’t wait to reveal our finalists! ✨🏆

I’m in shock, I’ve just had a message to say we’ve been nominated for 2 categories for the Cumbria Baby and Children’s Business Awards 2027.
I know we don’t have much chance of winning it as it goes on nominations and other settings in the category have larger following and some are known to post in international groups asking to vote for them. But when voting opens tomorrow and if you wish to vote for our little setting then please do get us little childminders out there and seen we’re just as good as those bigger settings..

A lot of people think working as a childminder or in nurseries is just playing all day long and is a 7am-5pm /8am-6pm job. What you don’t see behind the scenes in our own time is the planning for the week/term ahead, the preparation of activities each day, the mandatory 12 hour first aid, safeguarding, SENCO courses we have to do, any ongoing learning we may want to do. As a childminder you are not only an educator you are a doctor, chef, 2nd mum for hugs and cleaner all rolled into one.

Tonight after work I have been sat for about 2-3 hours planning for September to December. Yes we do have a plan on paper but being a home from home child led environment it’s very rarely followed as the children pull us in all directions. Some may ask why we have a plan if we don’t follow it, it’s because I like to know we have something to do if the children can’t think of anything (which is never!!)

We have a busier week next week and this time next Friday we’ll be on annual leave for 2 weeks so we can rest and recharge our batteries and I’m definitely ready for this break this year.

We have a case of hand foot and mouth within the setting.

There is no exclusion for this as long as your child is well enough to take part in our activities and day we have planned.

But if your child is unwell with it please keep them at home where they will benefit for parental cuddles, and plenty of rest.

The child in question was in Monday and this morning, but is now off due to high temperature, blisters on feet and in mouth and is dehydrated due to being unable to drink or eat from the blisters on mouth.

We know this can have a knock on effect with working parents but most children just want their parents when they are unwell (I know when I’m poorly I still want my mam!) and I’ve always said and I still stick by it family comes first when children are poorly!

Hand, foot and mouth disease Find out about hand, foot and mouth disease, including what the symptoms are, how to treat it, and when you should get medical advice.

We would like to wish one of our rainbows a happy 4th birthday. We can’t wait to celebrate with you this week.