About Boutique Babysitting, child friendly music festival supporters!

Selina Cope is 32 and lives in North London. She is Co-Founder and Childcare Director at Boutique Babysitting. She has studied and worked in the childcare profession for over 10 years and has extensive knowledge and experience within the industry. She has worked in nurseries and kids clubs, planning and managing children’s activities. Selina is currently working part-time as a nanny providing one-to-one childcare. She is well respected in her community and has a natural flair with children. She is very driven and has a can-do approach to life.  Selina grew up in Australia and loves the outdoors, music and camping.

Selina’s story… "In 2008 whilst at a very rainy and muddy Bestival I saw lots of weary parents who were wet and tired struggling with buggies and restless children. As a childcare professional I felt I might be able to help. I started asking parents whether they would would like to have some kind of babysitting service at festivals. The answer was a resounding YES! My dream was to create something that would provide parents with a professional childcare service they could trust, and a place where children could meet other like-minded festival friends safely.  I have very strong family values and believe everyone needs quality time. Not only do children need quality time with their parents, but parents need quality time together as well."

Lisa Merrick-Lawless is 37 and lives in North London. She has a 3-year-old daughter and an 12-year-old step-daughter, who both love going to festivals. She is Co-Founder and Business Director at Boutique Babysitting and has a marketing, training and coaching background. Lisa has created, developed and managed activity at all sorts of festivals for lots of different well-known brands over the past 10 years, so understands festivals inside out. On top of this Lisa is a seasoned festival-goer and has enjoyed taking her children to festivals over the last 3 years.

Lisa’s story… "I met Selina in September 2008. She had this fantastic dream for a childcare service at festivals. As a mother of two with a love of festivals I could see the huge potential of her idea. We decided to team up and use her knowledge and passion for childcare together with my experience of running businesses and working at festivals to develop our business. We went to Latitude festival to research the idea in 2009 and in 2010 had an amazing summer at five of the best family festivals. Together we are developing Boutique Babysitting again for this summer. We love it and we hope you will too."