Created by experts, loved by kids, trusted by parents

Abbey are the UK's leading, and award winning, distributor of children's entertainment. They have been releasing children's content in the UK for over 20 years and continue to increase their portfolio of children's brands. Recent acquisitions include the number one Cbeebies show, TOPSY AND TIM, the brand new co-production between the BBC and SESAME WORKSHOP, THE FURCHESTER HOTEL and a selection of CBeebies Pantomines. Other licenses held include the hugely successful HORRID HENRY, IN THE NIGHT GARDEN, SOOTY, CHUGGINGTON and the ALPHABLOCKS.

In addition to the new licenses Abbey also distributes classics such as PADDINGTON, THE HERBS & PARSLEY. Abbey also owns its own intellectual property including SUPERTED, WIDE-EYE, MOTHER GOOSE and MCDONALD's FARM. Work is currently underway to bring a brand new series of SuperTed to TV screens all around the World.

From birth, through pre-school and on to the child’s first years at school, we offer programmes that inform, educate, and above all entertain. We have always offered a tremendous variety of titles to entertain all age-groups. Our communication tools include book, audio, video, and other multimedia formats – all created and published with the same passion for quality and content that combine to make learning fun.

Abbey’s pre-school products are endorsed by the Pre-School Learning Alliance, one of the UK’s leading children’s educational charities, to ensure that content and language are suitable for the development of young children worldwide. Our success and commitment to early years programming, with its creativity and imagination, has developed strongly over the last few years.

Abbey are a privately owned business and based in Maida Vale, London and work with some of the leading producers of entertainment in the world including The BBC, Sesame Workshop, Novel Entertainment, DHX Media and Ludorum.

With a highly professional approach, Abbey work with the UK’s leading manufacturers and distributors to ensure that the supplied content is always of the highest standard.

For enquiries please contact

Abbey Home Media
435-437 Edgeware Road
London W2 1TH

Tel: 0207 563 3910
email: [email protected]

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Trust - Creativity - Expertise

Trust - with the emphasis on child safety in all media. Abbey’s product offering is entirely consistent with all facets of safety and social behaviour. Parents and children can be assured that they will enjoy a high quality and safe entertainment experience. The company is acutely aware of its social responsibilities and strives to offer safe, friendly products. Abbey has worked with many children’s charitable organisations including Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Pre-School Learning Alliance, the NSPCC, Action for Children and The Dog Trust.

Creativity - Abbey aims to understand the needs of its customers and delight them with the product the company offers, children and adults alike. The company understands the consumers’ requirement for quality and value, and develops its product range accordingly.

Expertise - Abbey uses its compact size as an advantage. By being highly specific, agile and responsive it has an advantage over bigger, non specialist organisations. Abbey is perceived as THE popular independent that has the time and energy to nurture its relationships with the creative community, retail customers and the public.

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Testimonials

“It is rare in my experience to find a home entertainment company that understands how best to entertain children as the team at Abbey clearly do. Their dedication and attention to detail sets them apart from the rest of the industry. Choosing them to be our partner for Horrid Henry was easy”
Mike Watts - Novel Entertainment


“Abbey have been involved with Spot for nearly 20 years, and over the years have marketed his DVDs and CDs with enormous commitment, imagination and concern for the brand. Their knowledge is unrivalled.”
Susan Bolsover - Licensing Director - Penguin Books

“It is such a pleasure working with Abbey Home Media. Anne and Ian’s shared passion for good quality children’s programmes, combined with their entrepreneurial spirit during times of adversity, make the company one of the best children’s entertainment companies in the UK today. Long may our partnership last!”
Helen Howells and Oliver Ellis - Joint Managing Directors - Hoho Entertainment.

“Abbey Home Media has a dedicated team who display creativity, diligence, and persistence when representing our brand.  Their expertise helps us extend the laughter and learning of Sesame Street to children and their families in the UK”
Renee Mascara - Vice President - International Media Distribution – Sesame Workshop

“The Pre-School Alliance has enjoyed a very close partnership with Abbey over the past 10 years. We both share a strong commitment to family learning and appreciate the benefits of stories and story telling in a child’s development process”
Neil Leitch - Director of Communications - Pre-school Learning Alliance