About

Small World was started by the owner of Young Explorers, a UK mail order company retailing a comprehensive range of outdoor clothing and equipment for 0-16 years.

Every day in the shop and on the phone we have found ourselves talking to people who do some great activities and amazing trips with their children. At the same time we are asked by other customers how to set up exactly those kinds of experiences. The idea of Small World is that the two groups can exchange ideas. We’ll combine your experiences with expertise from our contributors on medical issues, product reviews and all kinds of travel conundrums and ideas.

What we want is for you the readers (including the children) to send us reports in words and pictures of your trips and travels. What we'll do is pick the ones we think are the most informative and inspiring. For more guidance on what we need, click here.

Do send us your articles, and if you have any ideas for information you'd like to see covered, drop us an e-mail and we'll do our best to find someone who can provide the answers.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Jeanette Davey

Jeanette has a passion for the outdoors and travel, which thankfully she has passed on to her own children. They now do more outdoor activities than she thought possible, and also do them better. Most of her travels are based around great campsite locations in the UK and Europe as well as further afield. Jeanette is the owner of Young Explorers, which sells the UK ’s most comprehensive range of outdoor clothing and equipment for children.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

Medical Editor

Jane first started travelling on zoological expeditions and then accompanying her husband - an irrigation engineer. She has worked for about 11 years in remote corners of the developing world on child survival programmes. Her three sons spent their early years in Nepal and the family have done a great deal of Himalayan trekking. Jane writes for the Independent, Wanderlust magazine and is author of Bugs Bites & Bowels and co-author of Your Child Abroad.

Regular contributors
Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield - Outdoor activities

Author and photographer respectively of the book Nature’s Playground.

Fiona and Jo share a love of exploring wild places and a belief in giving children the freedom and excitement of playing outdoors. Fiona has experience in environmental education, including leading groups on field trips and running countryside play schemes, while Jo has spent many years as a commercial photographer shooting for national magazines.

Charlotte Hindle - Gap Year Travels

Author of The Lonely Planet’s The Gap Year Book

Charlotte Hindle travelled overland to Australia from the UK after graduating from university, and stayed on to work at Lonely Planet’s head office in Melbourne for three years. In 1991 she returned to England to establish Lonely Planet’s UK office, which she managed until June 2002 when she decided to change career to become a freelance travel writer, photographer and mum.