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Not Just a Childminder Calendar 2027
£12.00
This is not just a calendar.

Every photograph inside has been taken and submitted by a childminder somewhere across the UK, chosen by a judging panel from entries submitted as part of our 2027 calendar competition. Real settings, real childminders, real moments.

As well as twelve months of stunning photography, the calendar includes quotes, self care tips and gentle reminders to look after yourself throughout the year, all in the Not Just a Childminder brand and printed with the signature rounded corners.

A4 size with writing space on each month so it works as hard as you do.

Available to pre-order now. Calendars will be dispatched once the competition judging is complete and printing is finished.

*(Image is illustration purposes only, not the finished article)

Pre-order yours: £12

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The NotebookLM Workshop for Childminders
£65.00
You know the feeling.

It’s late. You’ve got a question about your own safeguarding policy, or your local authority’s latest guidance. Somewhere on your laptop is the answer — in one of forty PDFs, in a folder inside a folder, in a document you last opened months ago.

So you scroll. You search. You give up and half-remember it instead.

Your AI Twin writes beautifully in your voice — but it still works from the open internet, and it doesn’t actually know your setting. This is what fixes that.

A private, trusted library of everything that matters to your setting.
- No made-up answers. If it isn’t in your library, your AI won’t invent it. Just the facts, from your own documents.
- Completely private. A dedicated, secure space where your policies and your local authority guidance live — yours alone.
- Just ask your setting. Instead of hunting through folders of PDFs, you ask a question and get the answer, with the source.
Two focused sessions — and your private library is live.
1. Build your library (40 mins, live + recorded) — we set up NotebookLM together and upload your “source of truth” documents. By the end, your private library is live and answering your questions.
2. Make it work for you (30 mins, live + recorded) — implementation support. We make sure your library responds exactly the way you need it to, and troubleshoot anything that isn’t quite right.
You keep lifetime access to both recordings and any workbooks — so if you change something in six months, you can come straight back.

By the end, you’ll have…
- Your own private NotebookLM library, set up and working
- Your key policies and local authority guidance in one searchable place
- The confidence to ask your setting a question and trust the answer
- Lifetime access to the recordings and workbooks
- A calmer, faster way to find what you need — no more folder-diving
Created by a working childminder — not a tech company.

I’m a Google-certified Gemini Educator and a CPD-approved provider, with over ten years of real childminding behind me. This is taught in a small, supportive group, at a gentle pace, and built for how home-based settings actually work — wherever in the UK you are.

CPD Approved · Google-Certified Gemini Educator · 10+ years childminding · Created by a childminder

Common questions

Do I need to do the AI Twin Workshop first? No. It helps to have used AI a little and to understand roughly how it works — but you can start here. The two do different jobs: the Twin gives your AI your voice; NotebookLM gives it your knowledge. Together, they’re an assistant that sounds like you and knows your setting.

Is my information safe? Yes — that’s the whole point. Your library is a private, dedicated space, and your documents stay yours.

Is NotebookLM expensive? No — the tool itself is free. You’re paying for the workshop that shows you how to set it up properly for your setting.

The details

£65 · 2 live Zoom sessions (both recorded) · small groups, max 12 · lifetime access to recordings and workbooks · tool used: NotebookLM (free) · start from scratch, we build it with you.

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Oct 12th& 13th

Nov 9th & 10th
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Not Just Another Childminder’s Planner 2026/2027 (Physical)
£43.50
Your setting. Your year. Your organiser.

Built by a childminder. Shaped by over 140 childminders. Created for the reality of childminding life.

This isn’t a generic planner with a childminder sticker stuck on the front. Every single page has been designed from scratch around the way childminders actually work — the paperwork, the finances, the planning, the inspections, the professional development, and the very real need to occasionally stop and breathe.

After asking over 140 childminders what they loved, what they hated, and what was missing from every planner they’d ever bought, I created the planner I wished I’d had years ago.

The result is a 421-page academic planner designed to hold your entire childminding year in one place.

What’s inside?

Getting started
- Important contacts
- Year overview
- Key dates
- Birthdays
- Festivals and celebrations calendar
Finance
- Monthly income trackers
- Expense categories
- Tax guidance
- Making Tax Digital reminders and guidance
- Monthly prompts to transfer your figures into your accounting app or spreadsheet
Setting reference pages
- First aid records
- Allergen checker
- CPD tracker
- Visitors log
- Subscription tracker
- Waiting list records
At the start of every term
- Term-start checklist
- Term overview pages
- Mind mapping pages
- Monthly calendars
Every month includes
- Attendance registers
- Weekly diary pages
- Outings and mileage records
- Funded hours trackers
- “Children This Month” overview
- Weekly menu planners
- Monthly finance summaries
- Brain dump pages
- Monthly reflections
Wellbeing matters too

Because you’re important as well.

Throughout the planner you’ll find seasonal colouring pages, wellbeing prompts and gentle reminders to pause, reflect and take care of yourself alongside everyone else.

End of year reflection

The planner finishes with a full annual reflection

Pre-order now for dispatch at the end of August.

Receive a professionally printed and bound bespoke planner delivered straight to your door, ready to start your new academic year in September.

Planners are now being printed and due to be delivered to me 10th August 2026

Expected dispatch: End of August 2026
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Not Just another Childminder’s Planner 2026/2027 (Digital)
£10.00
Not Just another Childminder’s Planner 2026/2027

Your setting. Your year. Your childminder planner 2026/2027ganiser. (Digital Version)

Built by a childminder. Shaped by over 140 of you. Every page exists because you asked for it.

This isn’t a generic planner with a childminder sticker on the front. This was designed from scratch around the real rhythms of a childminding setting the admin, the finances, the CPD, the compliance, and the moments in between where you need to breathe.

421 pages. A full academic year. Everything in one place.

What’s inside

Front matter — contacts, year overview, key dates, birthdays, festivals and events calendar

Finance — monthly income tracker, expense categories, tax guide, MTD guidance, and a reminder every month to transfer your figures into your app or spreadsheet

Setting reference — first aid log, allergen checker, CPD tracker, visitors log, subscriptions tracker, waiting list

Each term opens with — term-start checklist, term overview, mindmap, and a monthly calendar

Each month includes — attendance register, weekly diary pages with outings and mileage, funded hours tracker, children this month, weekly menu planner, monthly finance summary, brain dump, and monthly reflection

Wellbeing — four seasonal colouring pages and self-care prompts throughout

Choose your version

📄 Digital — £10 (available now)

£ 10 or £5 with early bird code

A downloadable PDF — all 421 pages, ready to print at home or at a print shop, or use on a tablet. Print just the pages you need, as many times as you like.

No front cover included in the digital version.

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The Frog Theme Planning Framework
£8.00

You don’t need five crafts a day. You don’t need endless themed trays. You need a structure that works. This framework gives you a repeatable 5-day rhythm built around: • Song • Movement • Outdoor exploration • Storytelling • Practical life But this isn’t just activities. Each day includes: • Communication Focus guidance • ELKLAN-informed…

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Annual Subscription Not Just A Childminder 2026
£50.00
Not Just A Childminder Annual Subscription Annual Subscription — Sold Out The 2026 annual subscription has now closed and all copies for this year are spoken for. Thank you to every single person who subscribed. You are the reason this magazine exists and knowing you are in means the world. What happens next? I…

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Winter Edition Not Just a Childminder Magazine
Rated 5.00 out of 5
£10.00
Winter Edition — Not Just a Childminder Magazine January is for slowing down, refocusing, and remembering that less really is more. The Winter Edition is your gentle guide through the early months of the year full of cozy ideas, simple self-care, reflective pieces, and honest stories from fellow childminders finding their rhythm again after the…

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Spring Edition
Rated 5.00 out of 5
£10.00
Not Just a Childminder — Spring Edition Because supporting others starts with supporting you. 96 pages of seasonal recipes, wellbeing reflections, honest childminding stories and practical ideas designed for actual busy lives rather than perfect Instagram ones. This isn’t another training manual. It’s a quiet companion for the childminder who gives everything to everyone else…

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The AI Twin Workshop
Rated 5.00 out of 5
£40.00
You didn’t sign up for the paperwork.

You became a childminder for the children the muddy walks, the wobbly first steps, the little breakthroughs. Not for the evenings lost to writing up observations, planning next week, and wording yet another message to a parent.

But it piles up. And when you sit down to do it, you’re starting from a blank page every single time reinventing the wheel, on your own, when you’d much rather be resting.

Imagine having a helper who already knows how you write, and does the heavy lifting with you. That’s what we build together.

Over five short live sessions, we build your AI Twin step by step.
1. Give your AI your voice — so everything it writes sounds like you, not the internet.
2. Teach it about your setting — your routines, your approach, the way you do things.
3. Use it for observations and planning — turn a few notes into a proper write-up in minutes.
4. Use it for policies and parent communication — clear, kind and professional every time.
5. Make it part of your weekly workflow — so it saves you time every week, not just once.
By the end of the week, your assistant is ready to support your real, everyday paperwork.

By the end, you’ll have…
- Your own trained AI Twin that understands how you work
- Observation helpers you can use straight away
- Support for policies and parent communication
- Real confidence using AI safely in your professional role
Created by a working childminder — not a tech company.

I’m a Google-certified Gemini Educator and a CPD-approved provider, with over ten years of real childminding behind me. Everything is shown step by step, in a small, supportive group, and built for how home-based settings actually work — wherever in the UK you are.

CPD Approved · Google-Certified Gemini Educator · 10+ years childminding · Created by a childminder

Common questions

Do I need to be good with technology? No. If you can send an email, you can do this. Everything is shown one step at a time.

What if I can’t make a session live? Every session is recorded and yours to keep, so you can catch up whenever suits.

How is this different from the NotebookLM Workshop? They do different jobs and work beautifully together. This one gives your AI your voice. The NotebookLM Workshop gives it your knowledge — a private library of your own documents. Most people start here, then add NotebookLM when they’re ready.

The details

£40 · 5 short live Zoom sessions (all recorded) · small, supportive group · you keep the recordings and your prompts · CPD-recognised · no experience needed.

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Childminder’s Guide to AI (2026 Edition) Save time. Stay organised. Think clearly.
£15.00
This guide shows how AI for childminders can reduce paperwork time while keeping your professional voice and judgement at the centre of your practice.

This isn’t a tech manual.
And it’s definitely not more paperwork.

How AI helps childminders with observations, reports and policies

This calm, practical guide shows you how to use AI as a supportive admin assistant safely and professionally, while keeping your own voice and judgement at the centre of your practice. Created specifically for UK childminders working in real home-based settings.

Inside this guide you’ll learn how to:

Turn messy notes into clear observations in minutes
Create 2-year checks, transition reports and summaries without the blank-page dread
Write parent messages that are warm, clear and confident
Draft policies and professional documents that actually fit childminding settings
Explain funding confidently to parents without second-guessing yourself
Stay aligned with UK guidance (with simple adaptation notes for Scotland and Wales)
Get organised for accounts and Making Tax Digital without overwhelm
Feel calmer talking about your practice — including during inspections

You’ll also get my “interview-style prompts”

These work like a supportive colleague sitting beside you.

Instead of staring at a blank screen, the prompts ask you one question at a time and build the document from your answers.

No robotic wording.
No guessing what to type.
Just your voice clearer and faster.

This guide is especially helpful if:

paperwork often spills into your evenings
you’ve heard about AI but don’t know where to begin
policies take longer than they should
you want support that still sounds like you
you’d like more confidence explaining your decisions to parents or inspectors

A gentle but important reminder

AI is not the expert. You are. This guide simply gives you structure, headspace and language so you can spend less time typing and more time doing the job you actually love.

Instant download
Beginner-friendly
Written by a working UK childminder
Designed for real home-based childcare settings

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Christmas Edition
£10.00
The Christmas Edition of Not Just a Childminder is your calm companion for the festive season — packed with gentle inspiration, childminder-friendly activities, stories, and self-care reminders to help you slow down and actually enjoy December.

Inside, you’ll find practical play ideas, cozy recipes, reflections from real childminders, and pages that remind you to pause, not power through.

It’s more than a magazine it’s a warm hug in print form, a reminder that Christmas magic isn’t found in doing more… it’s found in being present.

This is to pre order your physical copy these will be sent out Mid November

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Special Edition 1st Anniversary
£10.00
The Autumn Issue Childminder Magazine: Expert advice, inspiring stories, and practical resources designed specifically for busy childcare professionals who want to thrive professionally and personally.

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Summer Edition
£10.00
Childminder Magazine Summer Issue – July & August Longer days. Slower mornings. Sand in the car. The Summer Issue is your companion for July and August whether you’re packing a picnic, paddling at the beach, or staying close to home and making the most of what’s on your doorstep. This edition celebrates simple British summers.Bucket-and-spade…

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