Toy Design and Safety
WITH YOU was created with one simple goal: to help children feel comforted, connected and reassured when they are apart from the people they love.
Our Toycessories® have been carefully designed to support both emotional well-being and sensory comfort. From meaningful charms and customisable combinations to the choice of colours, textures and materials, every detail has a purpose.
We wanted to create something children would genuinely love to wear, touch and treasure, not just because it's beautiful, but because it becomes part of their daily routine, helping them feel calm, confident and connected wherever they go.
WITH YOU Toycessories® are:
- Emotionally meaningful
- Sensory soothing
- Personal and customisable
- Beautifully crafted to treasure
Creating products for children takes more than a good idea. It requires an understanding of child development, product design, materials, manufacturing and safety to create products that are not only meaningful and beautiful, but also safe and made to last.
With over 20 years of experience creating children's products and taking hundreds of toys from concept to manufacture, Val brought the design, product development and manufacturing expertise that helped shape WITH YOU from a heartfelt idea into a professionally curated collection.
WITH YOU brings together two complementary areas of expertise: Dorothea's personal experience of separation anxiety and jewellery design background, and Valeria's extensive experience designing toys.. Together, we combined emotion, creativity and technical knowledge to create our Toycessories™ to be both comforting and beautifully made.
Every design decision, from the size, weight, and proportions to the choice of materials, textures, and finishes, was carefully considered to create Toycessories™ that are comforting to hold, enjoyable to explore, and built for everyday life.
Val has worked with the same manufacturing partners in China for a long time, and naturally, what began as a professional relationship, after years of working together, has grown into a genuine friendship built on trust and mutual respect. When it came to producing WITH YOU, we knew we were in safe hands, as they know the high standards Val expects, understand the complexities of making products for children and share our commitment to quality. Throughout the development process, they understood what we wanted to achieve and worked with us to bring that vision to life, with attention to detail and pride.
They weren't simply manufacturing our products; they became part of the journey, sharing our commitment to create something families could trust.
Along the way, we've been fortunate to work with an incredible group of people who share our values. Many of them are women, many of them mums, and many with personal or professional experience of neurodiversity & childhood anxiety. From our manufacturing partners, photographer and marketing consultant, to child development specialists, SEND professionals and the families who tested our products, every person has helped shape WITH YOU into what it is today.
Although WITH YOU Toycessories® are not strictly toys, they are designed specifically for children. Drawing on extensive experience in children's product development, we chose to develop and independently test them to recognised UK, European and US toy safety standards. It was important to us that they were made with the same care and attention you would expect from well-designed children's products and to reflect the same care and commitment to quality that have guided every stage of the design process.
