Wowzers – you went all out to support your local family favourites in the Red Kite Days Awards 2022, with literally thousands of people voting. It was extremely close in many of the categories so a huge congratulations to all the finalists and a big thank you to everyone who supported by nominating and voting.
After checking out the winners, do scroll on down and check out the finalists too . The voting was so close and there are some great places to try for a family day out, clubs & classes, family friendly restaurants and community groups.
You might also like to check out the October Half Term What’s On Guide
Red Kite Days Surrey Award Winners
Best Museum – Brooklands Museum
Birthplace of British motorsport, aviation and home of Concorde. Discover the pioneers of speed, flight and adventure at Brooklands Museum
Best Animal Attraction – Bocketts Farm Park
Bocketts Farm Park is a working family farm set in the beautiful Surrey countryside. The combination of animals and play areas, both inside and out makes this a popular all weather attraction. Watch the pig race, hop on board the tractor and trailer, cuddle cute rabbits and feed the farm animals. Being a working farm, there are always baby animals to see including lambs, kids, piglets and chicks.
Best for Eating Out – Heather Farm Cafe
Heather Farm Café, a really family friendly cafe located on Horsell Common. They’re open every day serving hot and cold drinks, light bites and an amazing selection of cakes.
Best Indoor Play – Gym Jams
Gym Jams is a traditional style soft play suitable for babies, toddlers, and small children. As a family run Guildford soft play, they pride themselves in providing a safe space, with high standards of cleanliness and safety, for fun and creative play.
Best Outdoor Play – Hobbledown Epsom
Meerkats and fairies, jumping pillows and underground tunnels, Hobbledown are already multi award winners. A unique mysterical farm park adventure based on a book by A J Kecojevic and illustrated by Lyn Stone.
Best Theatre – New Victoria Theatre
New Victoria Theatre in Woking boasts state of the art facilities, excellent acoustics and clear sight lines. This year’s pantomime is Cinderella, the fairy godmother of all pantos!
Best Kid’s Activity Class – The Mummas Village
Nowadays many of us live away from our families and our traditional support networks; The Mummas Village help bridge that gap and provide families with a community of support, empowerment and fun! Teachers across Surrey (who are all mums) offer evidence based, logical and down to earth antenatal classes together with fun, stimulating, developmentally appropriate baby classes.
Best for Teens
Air Hop Guildford have over 50 interconnected trampolines that span right across the floor and up the walls, as well as an Obstacle Course, AirHopBag, Extreme Dodge Attack, Slam Dunk and AR Trampolines.
Best Parties
Koala Kids Parties specialise in providing competitively priced, stress free party entertainment for children aged 3-8 in and around Surrey. Birthday entertainment that is activity, imagination and adventure role play driven.
Community Support
21 & Co is a parent run support group dedicated to giving support to families who have children and young people with Down’s syndrome.
Red Kite Days Awards Finalists
Museums
Animal Attractions
Indoor Play
Outdoor Play
Eating Out
- Dotty’s Teahouse (Carshalton)
- Pizza Express (Guildford)
- Rose & Crown (Egham)
- The Cricketers (Woking)
Theatres
- G Live (Guildford)
- The Harlequin (Redhill)
- Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (Guildford)
Kid’s Activity Class
- Baby Sensory (Guildford & Godalming)
- Baby Sensory (Woking)
- Caterpillar Music (Guildford)
- Little Bear Music (Woking & Guildford)
- Peekaboo Play Café (Guildford)
- Prime Acrobatics
- Splat Messy Play (Woking)
- The Kub Club
- The Little Gym Camberley
Best For Teens
Parties
- Gift Wrapped Events
- Highho Princess Parties
- Little City North Surrey
- Magical Makeovers
- Mini Sleepers Sleepovers
- Playdates
- Teepee Vibe Tribe
- The Kub Club
- The Little Gym Camberley
Community Support
- Knaphill, St John’s, Brookwood Volunteers support
- Marianne’s Community Café (Staines)
- NCT Woking
- Stripey Stork