About Us

whenBabyGROWS was founded by Jane and James Geldart, from Clevedon, near Bristol. We have two children: Phoebe (3 and a half) and Adam (2 and a half). Jane runs a networking group for local mums in business. James runs Nuvola, a company specialising in creating custom-built, web-based software for small businesses.

Why we created whenBabyGROWS

Every parent seems to experience this: you buy lots of great stuff (clothes, toys, equipment) for your kids, and then in a year or two they've grown out of it and you're left with a lot of good stuff you've paid a lot of money for. What do you do with it? Do you sell it on auction websites and spend hours trekking to the post office? Do you do a car boot sale and hope it isn't full of people who won't spend more than a pound on anything? Can you afford to give it all to charity?

We were faced with exactly this dilemma. We thought it'd be great if there was a local website dedicated to baby and child items where people could come and find the stuff they wanted, and be able to collect them from the seller (like when we were kids, when everyone used ads in the local paper).

There wasn't one, so we built one!

whenBabyGROWS is currently focussed on our local area - North Somerset. We're looking for people around the country who'd like to help us expand into other areas and generate a part-time income stream for themselves. If this is you, please email us telling us where you're from.

We felt there was a need for people like us to be able to buy and sell their unwanted baby/child gear easily, so we created this site specifically designed to do just that. We also wanted it to be a part of the community, hence the local noticeboard.

We hope you enjoy using it!