Bestbear Childcare Ltd was established in 1998 to create the only comprehensive and quality controlled guide to childcare agencies across the UK, which would help parents make informed decisions when choosing childcare services.

Best Bear provides a unique and ongoing nationwide survey of childcare agencies in the UK, using a proven research methodology. To date over a thousand agencies have been investigated and those that passed have been invited to advertise their agency details on the Best Bear website.

Bestbear has subsequently expanded to provide the most comprehensive one stop shop for childcare services for parents, childcarers, agencies, nurseries and employers.

As part of the expanded services, Best Bear offers parents and nurseries the opportunity to place job adverts in front of the thousands of childcarers who regularly use the Best Bear website. To ensure that parents have complete peace of mind when recruiting a childcarer, Best Bear also offers a comprehensive and cost effective reference checking service.

Parents can also browse through the hundreds of childcarer CVs that have been posted on Best Bear by childcarers looking for a new position.

Best Bear also provides information on over 50,000 day nurseries, and is currently undertaking a unique survey of daycare nurseries, using feedback from parents to give a true picture of the services provided.

For childcarers, there is a comprehensive job search facility, which includes adverts posted by parents and agencies looking for a childcarer. Childcarers can also upload their CV to the website, free of charge. Best Bear also offers a wide range of information on childcare courses and first aid courses.

The website also has an 'Ask the expert' facility and discussion forums for parents and childcarers, as well as regular news stories, articles and competitions.

Marketing, Advertising & Ecommerce

Marketing

We offer a range of marketing tools that can assist companies with everything from increasing brand awareness amongst their target audience to executing a specific piece of market research through on line surveys.

Tools:

Sponsorship

competitions, expert areas, newsletters

Research

new product testing, surveys, polls

Advertising

banner ads, pop-up boxes, premium listing

Advertorial

product or service reviews

Links

Associated PR opportunities

Best Bear offers a very cost effective way of reaching an extremely targeted and significantly large audience, namely parents of young children and female 16-30 yr old childcarers.

To receive our audience specifications and to discuss any of these marketing tools please contact info@bestbear.co.uk or call 08707 201277.

Advertising

Since 1998 Best Bear has built up a reputation for childcare excellence. We are the only listing of vetted childcare agencies in the UK. We also offer a database of 50,000 nurseries, forums for parents and childcarers to air their views, and a wealth of childcare information from costs to choice.

Our audience is very targeted: Mothers and Childcarers. For more detailed audience specifications please contact us at ads@bestbear.co.uk

To discuss other types of advertising requirements such as pop up boxes please email us at ads@bestbear.co.uk

Banners

Large banners - positioned at the top of the page

Banner size: 468 x 60 pixels
Main home page
Parents/Childcarers Agencies home page
Other pages available

Small banners - positioned on the right hand side of the page

Banner size: 100 x 35 pixels
Main home page
Parents/Childcarers Agencies home page
Other pages available

Options For Nurseries

For information on options for nurseries, please click here

E-Commerce

Best Bear partners with a number of different sites to drive ecommerce revenues through tailored promotions and affiliate schemes. Click here to view our Shop.

If you would like more information on partnering with Best Bear please contact info@bestbear.co.uk or call us on 08707 201277.

Corporate Childcare Services

In response to the pressure on employers to incorporate <> and <> policies, we believe that there has never been a better time to help your employees' balance their work and family life by providing them with access to childcare and parenting services.

Bestbear Ltd is currently launching its new corporate childcare service package - the Bestbear Childcare Channel.

This affordable on-line service can enhance an existing Employee Assistance Programme or be added to your corporate intranet.

The Bestbear Childcare Channel offers the following features:

Bestbear's unique Nationwide Childcare Locator Database - the only database of independently tested childcare providers in the UK
A comprehensive guide to different types of childcare
A comprehensive guide on how to get set up - selection process/contracts/tax & national insurance
An outsourced childcare enquiries support facility - help@bestbear.co.uk

The Bestbear Childcare Channel can be provided in either a non-branded or co-branded format and there is a range of integration options depending upon your requirements.

We invite you to review the Bestbear Childcare Channel via the following URL: http://www.bestbear.co.uk/childcarelocator.

To discuss your requirements further please contact Sally Harrison, either via email info@bestbear.co.uk or on 08707 201277.

The Team

Sally Harrison: Director
email info@bestbear.co.uk

Abigail Evershed - For new and existing agency listings/enquiries
email abby@bestbear.co.uk

Sharon Smith - Editorial, advertising and marketing enquiries
email sharons@bestbear.co.uk

General enquiries or feedback - feedback@bestbear.co.uk

Telephone 08707 201277

Jobs

There are no current vacancies.

Agency Listings

If you would like your Childcare Agency to be considered for a listing on the Best Bear Childcare website, please click here

We test all agencies using our own unique research methodology, and only invite agencies who pass our strict criteria to have a listing on the website. It does not cost anything to be listed on our website, however we do charge a small referral fee for any quality referrals sent through to agencies from parents or childcarers requesting contact.

We do not charge any referral fees during the first month that agencies are listed with us. This way agencies can see the benefits of being with Best Bear Childcare before making a financial commitment.

If any of the referrals we send through are inappropriate (for instance, not real customers or out of your geographical area) you will not be charged for these leads.

As you will see, hundreds of childcare agencies continue to be delighted with the service Best Bear Childcare offers childcare agencies, and we are sure that you will be as happy with the service we can offer your agency. To find out more, please click here

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