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BABY - Sources of Help 

- Breastfeeding (link)

- Family Concerns (link)

- Lone Parents (link)

- Parents Under Stress (link)

- Special Baby Care (link)

- Special Needs (link)

- When a Baby Dies (link)

BARBEQUE (link)

BEAUTY (link)

BOOKS, POETRY, ART ONLINE (link)

BUSINESS-IT related links (link)

 

BABY - Sources of Help 

BABY - Breastfeeding

Baby Centre

Breastfeeding Resources 

National Childbirth Trust - Pregnancy and breastfeeding support.

BABY - Family Concerns  

Home Start UK - UK's nationwide family support service run by local volunteers.

National Childminding Association (NCMA) - UK's national charity promoting registered childminding.

Parenting.com

BABY - Lone Parents

Gingerbread - One-parent support network.

NetMums is a unique local network for Mums (or Dads), offering a wealth of information on both a national and local level.

BABY - Parents Under Stress

Association for Postnatal Illness

NSPCC

Parentline Plus - incorporating National Stepfamily Association

BABY - Special Baby Care  

BLISS (Baby Life Support Systems)

Save a Baby's Life Training Programme - Royal Life Saving Society UK

BABY - Special Needs  

ACT - Association for Children with Life Threatening or Terminal Conditions and their Families  

Advice Capability Scotland - Scottish Council for Spastics

BIBIC - British Institute for Brain-Injured Children: Programs help to overcome disabilities.

British Diabetic Association

British Dyslexia Association

British Epilepsy Association

Children's Liver Disease Foundation - Support for children & adolescents. 

Coeliac Society

Contact a Family - Support groups for all disabilities.

Disabled Living Foundation - Advice on equipment by appointment.

Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust

Down's Syndrome Association

Fit and well - details and information that can help you understand and cope with epilepsy.

Foundation for Conductive Education - Range of services for children with cerebral palsy and dyspraxia includes FREE parent & child service for children under three years.

Medic Alert Foundation - Provides emergency identification for hidden health problems.

MENCAP - Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults

Meningitis Research Foundation

MIND - Mental health charity

National Asthma Campaign

National Autistic Society

National Deaf Children's Society

National Eczema Society

National Meningitis Trust

National Society for Epilepsy

REACH - Association for Children with Hand or Arm Deficiency

Royal National Institute for the Blind

SCOPE - Spastics Society

Scottish Down's Syndrome Association

Sickle Cell Society

STEPS - National Association for Children with Lower Limb Abnormalities

BABY - When a Baby Dies  

British Organ Donor Society (Body) - Run by parents of donor. Members include families of donors and recipients. Counselling.

Compassionate

Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS)

OTHER BABY LINKS

Babysitters Club - They are a (fairly new) babysitting agency providing evening child care to families in Bristol, Bath, Leeds, London and Liverpool with very affordable membership fees.

FindaBabysitter.com features a ‘geo-coded’ search facility that shows you at a glance how far away each candidate lives from your home. This is handy for when you need to hire a suitable person in a hurry, while you can also search by qualifications, experience and language. Findababysitter.com couldn’t be simpler to use and lets you save your searches, as well as providing helpful articles and advice. The site charges parents £10 per month for unlimited access, but child carers seeking employment can post their details for free.

Hello Baby is well-stocked online nursery shop that sells everything a young child could need or want. They stocks potties, pushchairs, pull-along toys and a whole lot more. Products are organised into clear categories and are accompanied by detailed descriptions and decent-sized photos. A frequently-updated blog and buyers' guides covering such topics as breast pumps and cots give the store a friendly and authoritative feel and are complemented by links to Hello Baby's presence on various social-networking sites and a dedicated iPhone app.

BARBEQUE

BBQ Recipes www.hookerycookery.com/bbq-menu.htm

Barbecue Dishes http://bbq.about.com/cs/recipecollections

National BBQ Week www.national-bbq-week.co.uk

BEAUTY

BeautyRiot - Follow the comprehensive and detailed instructions for celebrity styles and you'll be looking like one of them in no time.

Makeup Alley - Top tips from women, although American bias might not suit everyone's tastes.

Make Your Cosmetics - A great range of scrumptious home-made beauty treats that are almost good enough to eat. Bare in mind that all suppliers listed are in US.

Naturally Curly - This is US based website that is aimed specifically at women with curly hair.

BOOKS, POETRY, ART ONLINE  

Amazon USA

Amazon UK

Barnes and Noble

BookBite has been set up by charity BookTrust to help people in their 60s get more from reading and writing. Bookbite encourages greater interaction with books and booklovers through sharing reviews, joining discussions groups, taking part in quizzes and much more. You can also try your hand at writing poetry, letters and short stories, with competitions to enter and lots of expert tips, and find out how to trace your family tree.

Bookwire

Chapter a Day

Dorling Kindersley - Established in 1974, DK publishes bestselling, award-winning and visually stunning reference books for adults and children. From travel guides and activity books, through to food, history, film and much more, DK makes ideas come to life!

Poem Online

The Book Trust 

The Children's Bookshop

BookMooch is an online community that lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you do. Joining is free, and lets you select your country and whether you want to exchange books worldwide or just within your country. The only cost is the postage, and in order to keep receiving books, you need to give away at least one for every five you receive. You can also add feedback, a la eBay.

ManyBooks.net - This site has a huge range of free e-books, which are all formatted for the main types of handheld computers: Palm, PocketPC and Symbian. Each book has a handy extract included in its information screen, which is good for brief synopsis.

Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 FREE ebooks to download to your PCKindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. All their ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. They digitized and diligently proofed them with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required, but if you find Project Gutenberg useful, they kindly ask you to donate a small amount so they can buy and digitize more books.

The Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became UK Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

Titan Books - Few publishers share creative content online in a way that rewards readers while boosting sales. This is why Titan Books, which specialises in graphic novels and film and TV tie-ins, is so refreshing, because it balances these needs but doesn’t over-sell its products. Instead the site offers exclusive interviews with authors, fascinating blogs and an individual style that brings the brand to life without seeming self-important.

Turning Pages - The British Library has outdone itself with its newly-updated Turning The Pages initiative. The online project gives you access to rare books. Using Shockwave, you use your mouse to turn the pages, zoom in, listen to audio, or see a typed version of the text.

Usborne Children's Books - This children's-book publisher Usborne has relaunched its website to splendid effect. The attractive, themed homepage gives you access to all areas of the site - including the whole of the extensive Usborne catalogue and the gift-ideas section - while still finding space for illustrations, while the search facility suggests titles as you type. Usborne's resources for teachers and home-based booksellers have been seamlessly integrated, while the tab-based design makes it easy to switch between reviews, author information and extra content, including the welcome ability to read first chapters online.

Wikipedia is the web encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. Any user can read, add, delete or edit pages, on any topic, as long as the content is factual. The work of a dedicated team of editors means that the 1.6 million articles - 600,000 in English and the others in 194 other language editions - are largely accurate and clear, and those that are nor are clearly indicated as such.

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