January 24, 2004
By: Alex Gore
Website: http://www.1st-in-toys.com
Review of Smallfolk.com
SmallFolk,com was launched in June of this year in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity to provide parents and carers of children in their formative years with online access to child related information,products and services. With over 3,000 pages,sourced from experts at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, Smallfolk.com is the largest paediatric site in the UK and sells over 1,300 lines in its shopping zone covering all aspects of children's needs in toys,software,books and toiletries.
It is an ethical site in that air its items are carefully selected to contribute to the development of children and it does not sell items that either appear to promote violence, or fail to contribute to a child's development. Smallfolk.com also provide parents with online access to child experts and professionals who will answer questions and give guidance on education, health, psychology and psychiatry for children aged 0 to 5 years. In addition, its online forums allow parents to share their experiences and discuss child related issues. Whilst providing the very best in childcare information and products, Smallfolk.com is also the only website committed to raising funds for child-related causes and making a difference to children. Through its partnership with GOSHCC, for every pound spent on its products Smallfolk.com donates 5p to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and through its sales it recently donated a vital signs monitor for their work with sickchildren.
Co-founder llesh Kotecha, said, As a single father working long hours in the city, I found it hard to find reliable and readily available childcare information, so the idea of Smallfolk.com was born out of need. Great Ormond Street Hospital was the ideal partner. They provide high quality information and also enable us to help support sick children and their families in the process. Other charities and child-related causes are also encouraged to nominate projects that require funding. Smallfolk.com publicises these projects by offering to create a web site within its own site at no cost to the charity. For instance, a nursery that requires educational toys can nominate projects on the Smalltolk.com site and encourage parents support by purchasing through them. This benefits the parents in two ways. Firstly, they can purchase products at a cheaper cost than available throughout the high street and secondly, in doing do they are helping to raise funds to enhance and facilitate their child's nursery environment.
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