The video was commissioned by Kids Allowed founder and CEO Jennie Johnson, to support the great work of Millie’s Trust – a charity dedicated to promoting the importance of paediatric first aid. It’s also to be used as a refresher training video for Kids Allowed staff as well as a valuable resource for parents.

The video was published on 14th February and promoted on the Facebook pages of both Kids Allowed and Millie’s Trust. Within 24 hours it had well over 1,500 views, one of whom was a lady called Kirra, who watched the film in the morning of 15th February. That afternoon the unthinkable happened; her 18 month old son started to choke on the top of a plastic container and because she had watched the paediatric first aid video, Kirra was able to apply the techniques demonstrated and help her son – who thank goodness was fine. You can read Kirra’s account of what happened in this moving message to Millie’s Trust.

Ask yourself this question – would you know what to do if your child, grand child, nephew, niece or friends children were choking or needed CPR? If your answer is no, please take just 15 minutes to watch this paediatric health and safety video.

Kids Allowed came to us with an idea of the lyrics they ideally wanted to use and we took it from there. We developed a number of different musical approaches and eventually settled on a melody that was fun and engaging for the kids, plus that had a few breaks in it so they could take a breather now and again.

We had great fun recording the song in the studio and want to say a big thank you to Alison from Kids Allowed, for all her guidance and coaching that helped our vocalists get the phonics sounds spot on. As you can see from the photo, Alison really loved the sound booth!

We created some simple, clear, easily recognisable visuals and combined them with the song to produce the final phonics song video you can view above.

How do you teach your kids the alphabet? If you haven’t tried it, give our phonics song a go and let us know how you and the family get on.

Our latest work with them is a short TV style series of programmes, featuring two of their own team, Luann and Phil as the presenters. It’s not the first time that Luann and Phil have been in front of the camera, in fact we produced a 3-part podcast series for them in 2011 and as part of the preparation for that, we put them through an intensive one day media ‘presenters’ training course, so you could say they’re now old hands!

‘Workforce News’ is a 10ish minute magazine style programme, targeted at the public sector Human Resources community. With all of the huge challenges and changes facing the public sector, there’s a lot of crucial and often ‘time critical’ information that has to be shared with the HR teams to enable them to do their jobs well. These short and snappy films are a great way to share vital knowledge in a very engaging way.

The first one has just been published and we think Luann and Phil should be very proud!

Testimonial featuring Jessica Bynert of Sanderson Dance and Fitness.

Testimonial featuring Kathryn Walker of I-DG.