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Details are subject to change, please check directly with organisers for the latest updates, further info and booking requirements. There may be a waiting list for some activities.
Gateshead Family Hubs provide support, advice and structured activities for families and the wider community, with a packed program of pre-school sessions throughout the week including:
🔹Sensory Rooms 🔹Stay and Play 🔹Soft Play 🔹Baby Time 🔹Toddler Time 🔹Trike Time 🔹Well Child Clinics 🔹External Baby & Toddler Class Providers 🔹Holiday Events
A range of services and health advice is available:
🔸Breastfeeding, hygiene, weaning, nutrition and safety advice 🔸Breast pump hire 🔸Antenatal and postnatal advice 🔸Parenting & family support and advice 🔸Affordable childcare and support to access funding 🔸Toy Library
Services are delivered in centres across Gateshead, in:
🔹Birtley 🔹Blaydon Winlaton 🔹Chopwell 🔹Chowdene 🔹Deckham 🔹Felling 🔹Leam Lane 🔹Teams 🔹Wrekenton
👉 For more info, visit @GatesheadFamilyHubs
📆 Wednesdays 9.30 – 11am
📌 Chowdene Family Hub, NE9 7TU
Autumn term from 11th Sep 2023
Volunteer led parent and toddler groups provide an opportunity for parents/carers to spend quality time with their toddlers. The sessions include songs, rhymes, crafts and messy play.
👉 £1 per child (50p siblings), drop-in. More info here.
📅 Wednesdays 10.30 – 11.30 (SEN Stay & Play)
📅 Thursdays, 10.30 & 12.30pm
📌 Birtley, DH3 1QT
Parent supervised Stay & Play, with lots of equipment including trampoline, bars and beams, and bouncy castle. Cafe will be open to purchase hot food, drinks and snacks. All ages.
👉 From £5 for 1 hour session (non-walkers £3).
Booking required for SEN session only.
Daily Drop-in sessions
📌 Raven Valley Gym Club, Metro Riverside Park, NE11 9DJ
Raven Rascals and Soft Play are casual non-structured parent and toddler sessions where children can play and utilise the gym equipment, with baby toys, sensory wall, giant soft play shapes and bouncy castles.
From £2.50, no booking needed.
📆 Tues, Wed & Thurs, 9.30 – 11am
📌 Riverside Primary Academy, Dunston, NE11 9DX
There are plenty toys, games, and activities to keep little ones occupied. Come along and enjoy time with friends in a relaxed environment. Juice and biscuits are provided for the children and tea and coffee for the adults.
👉 £1. No booking needed
📆 Wednesdays, 9.30 – 11am
📌 Stargate Comunity Centre, Ryton, NE40 3DX
A great range of toys suitable for all ages, various weekly activities for children as well as crafts. When playtime is over there is juice and toast to wind down, then to finish song time with various different instruments.
👉 £2 (under 1 year/siblings: £1).
📆 Mondays & Wednesdays, 9.30-11am
📌 Winlaton, Blaydon, NE21 6BY
Parent and toddler group, includes juice and snack for children.
👉 £2 per family. No booking needed.
