Our team works across the city to support families with children under 5 years old with their individual needs. We can offer support in many areas including:

• Families who have experienced domestic abuse

• Debt/ Benefit Advice

• Parenting tips/advice/strategies, support on managing children's behaviour, routines and boundaries

• Families experiencing social isolation

• Healthy lifestyles advice

• SEN (Special Educational Needs) support.

High View Family Hub, 10-11.30am (Term-time ONLY)

Elburton, 10-11.30am

North Prospect Family Hub, 1.30-3pm

What?

We offer support for women who are pregnant and wanting to breastfeed as well as offering help and advice for women who are currently breastfeeding and want to learn more about its benefits.

A nursing bra fitting service is also available.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Rees Well-being & Family Hub

When?

12.45-3pm

What?

Do you need help with applying for benefits and/or universal credit? Book a place at our clinics run by the Department of Work & Pensions.

Do I need to book?

Yes, contact the Rees Well-being Family Hub for more information and to book your place.

Plymouth Methodist Central Hall, Eastlake St, PL1 1BA

When?

1.15 - 2.30pm

What?

Drop in sessions to offer help with:

• Parenting advice and support

• Antenatal and Postnatal support

• Money advice

• Childcare and funding advice

• Home safety

• Health eating/feeding support

• Support through stressful times

• Helping to link you to the right professional support

• Accessing groups and building community links.

*Soft play and café available*

The Barn Family Hub

When?

9-12pm

What?

Do you need help with applying for benefits and/or universal credit? Book a place at our clinics run by the Department of Work & Pensions.

Do I need to book?

Yes, contact the Barn Family Hub for more information and to book your place.

Fourwoods Family Hub

When?

10-11.30am

What?

We offer support for women who are pregnant and wanting to breastfeed as well as offering help and advice for women who are currently breastfeeding and want to learn more about its benefits.

A nursing bra fitting service is also available.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Tothill Community Centre, 10-11.30am

Whitleigh Family Hub, 10- 11.30am

What?

Stay and play for 0-5 year olds with themed sessions with our team. Health visitors are also available for advice and/or to have your baby weighed.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Togetherness Approach antenatal course gives parents practical information about pregnancy and birth whilst at the same time introducing them to their baby. It explains how and why those around this baby are so important.

It integrates the traditional information given on an antenatal course with a new approach to starting your relationship with this baby before the baby even makes an appearance.

Areas covered include:

• Helping you and your baby through pregnancy and birth

• Getting to know your baby in the womb

• You, your baby and the stages of labour

• Helping you and your baby through labour and birth

• Feeding your baby

• After your baby is born.

Booking essential - Please contact your local Family Hub for more details to book onto this course.

relationships, designed to encourage a reflective style of parenting that leads to more sensitive and effective parenting. You are also helped to understand how you can influence your relationship with your child through play.

We focus on the parent/child relationship and aim to support

you in building positive and responsive relationships with your children.

Our sessions include…

• How do you know what you and your child are feeling?

• Tuning in to your child’s developmental needs

• Having fun together

• Self-regulation.

• Sleep and anger.

• Different styles of parenting.

• How to recover when things go wrong.

Booking essential - please contact your local Family Hub for more details to book onto this course.

This group helps you develop your parent/baby relationships and help you understand your baby's brain, cognitive and social development. We also cover developing healthy sleep patterns, baby feeding and understanding your baby's childcare needs.

Booking essential - Please contact your local Family Hub for more details to book onto this course.

Booking essential - please contact your local Family Hub to book onto this course.

You and your child can make friends and have fun, while finding out how the things they do and learn now will help them make the most of school.

Booking is essential - please contact your local Family Hub for more details and to book onto this course.

to help support parents to improve their child's behaviour.

Our Incredible Years parenting programmes focuses on

strengthening parent and child interactions, nurturing

relationships, promoting positive discipline and helping

families promote social, emotional and language

development in children.

Booking essential - please contact your local Family Hub to book onto this course.

It will include topics such as CPR, recovery and choking for all ages. The session will then be opened up for learners to address their particular concerns which usually include burns,

sprains, seizures etc.

Babies Welcome!

Booking essential - please contact your local Family Hub for more information and to book onto this course.

to start your midwife registration, please go to www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/midwife-booking

If you need to leave a message with your midwife, change or make an antenatal/postnatal appointment, please ring this number:

01752 437555

Line open: 9-3.30pm Monday to Friday.

TENS may also be useful while you're at home in the early stages of labour or if you plan to give birth at home. TENS is believed to work by stimulating the body to produce more of its own natural painkillers, called endorphins. It also reduces the number of pain signals sent to the brain by the spinal cord.

TENS machines can be hired for a 3 week period at a cost of £10 for hire and £10 deposit. Please contact our Family Hubs for availability.

CASH ONLY PLEASE.

Breast pumps can be hired at Rees, Fourwoods and Nomony Family Hubs.

Please phone beforehand to check availability.

These pumps can be hired for a 4 week period at a cost of £10 for hire and £10 deposit.

CASH ONLY PLEASE.

The Barn Family Hub, 10-11.15am

Morice Town Family Hub, 9.30-10.30am (Starts 12/01)

What?

Do you have worries about your child's development?

We have specialised groups to help with children who may have signs of developmental delay and/or SEN.

Come along to one of our groups to gain advice and support for you and your child.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Nomony Family Hub

When?

10-11.30am

What?

Run by Barnardo's and the Perinatal Mental Health Peer Support Team from Livewell Southwest.

We offer a safe, nurturing and supportive space for mums with babies from birth up until the age of 18 months, who are in need of emotional and mental well-being support in the postnatal period.

We also offer antenatal peer support from second pregnancy onwards.

Do I need to book?

Yes, the Peer Support Groups are limited in numbers to ensure the groups are not overwhelming, due to this we are attendance by self-referral.

Southway, Church of the Holy Spirit, 10-11.30am

Rees Family and Wellbeing Hub, 1-2.30pm

Manor Street Family Hub,1-2.30pm

Oxford House, 1-2.30pm

What?

Stay and play for 0-5 year olds with themed sessions with our team. Health visitors are also available for advice and/or to have your baby weighed.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Rees Well-being & Family Hub

When?

1-2.30pm

What?

We offer support for women who are pregnant and wanting to breastfeed as well as offering help and advice for women who are currently breastfeeding and want to learn more about its benefits.

A nursing bra fitting service is also available.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

01752 362 320

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.40-4pm

plymouthccwest@barnardos.org.uk

01752366795

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthccwest@barnardos.org.uk

01752 261 844

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthcceast@barnardos.org.uk

01752 340 550

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

Rees@Barnardos.org.uk

01752 875 933

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthccnorth@barnardos.org.uk

Kitto Centre, Honicknowle Ln, Plymouth PL5 3NG

01752 201918

SweetPeas Children's Centre

Compton Church Hall, 2 Revel Road, Compton, PL3 5LF

07808 200 207

plymouthcccentral@barnardos.org.uk

Tothill Community Centre

119 Knighton Road, PL4 9DA

Onward House

55 Greenbank Road, PL4 8PE

Mainstone

Mainstone Social Club, Pattinson Drive, Plymouth, PL6 8RU

Church of the Holy Spirit

Clittaford Road, Southway, PL6 6EJ

Plymstock

St Mary's Church Hall, Church Road, PL9 9BP

Honicknowle Youth Centre

Honicknowle Green, PL5 3PX

Elm, 1 - 230pm

Morice Town, 1.30-3pm

What?

We offer support for women who are pregnant and wanting to breastfeed as well as offering help and advice for women who are currently breastfeeding and want to learn more about its benefits.

A nursing bra fitting service is also available.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Whitleigh Family Hub, 10-11.15am

Green Ark Family Hub, 10-11am (starting 15/01/26)

What?

Do you have worries about your child's development?

We have specialised groups to help with children who may have signs of developmental delay and/or SEN.

Come along to one of our groups to gain advice and support for you and your child.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

St Francis of Assisi 1-2.30pm

Compton Church 1-2.30pm

Green Ark Family Hub1-2.30pm

What?

Stay and play for 0-5 year olds with themed sessions with our team. Health visitors are also available for advice and/or to have your baby weighed.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

High View Children's Centre

When?

1.45-2.45pm

What?

Do you have worries about your child's development?

We have specialised groups to help with children who may have signs of developmental delay and/or SEN.

Come along to one of our groups to gain advice and support for you and your child.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Barn Family Hub

When?

10-2pm

What?

Join us for a midweek Starbucks coffee and help us tackle food waste by taking away donated food from M&S, Lidl and Tesco.

Safe and friendly environment where all ages are welcome, with children's activities in the mornings.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

01752 686750

greenarkcc@actionforchildren.org.uk

North Prospect Family Hub, 91-93 North Prospect Road, PL2 2NA - 9.30 - 10.30am

Nomony Family Hub, 10-11.15am

What?

A parent and child group aimed at children aged 0-5 with additional needs.

Do I need to book?

North Prospect FH: Yes Please, you can book by contacting North Prospect Family Hub.

Nomony: no need, just come along!

North Prospect Family Hub, 91-93 North Prospect Road, PL2 2NA, 1.30-3pm

Elburton Methodist Church 10-11.30am

What?

Stay and Play drop-in session with themed health topics. Health visitors on hand to assist with baby weighing, advice on feeding, diet, potty training, behaviour and parenting. Plus breast feeding support.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Green Ark Family Hub, 10am-11am

Nomony Family Hub, 1 - 2.30pm

St Francis of Assisi, 1-2.30pm

What?

An infant feeding support group in a relaxed and secure environment

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Green Ark Family Hub

When?

11am-12pm (Starting 15/01/26)

What?

Group for babies 0-walking. Using the PEEP LearningTogether Programme, this group will give you opportunities tosupport babies learning and development through play, developingcommunication and supporting relationshipsAction

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Please speak to Green Ark Family Hub to book your place, 07855184758

Green Ark Family Hub

When?

9.30 - 11am

Do I need to book?

Please contact Green Ark Family Hub to book a place.

Rees Well-being & Family Hub

When?

2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month

10-11.30am

What?

A stay & play for all families with twins 0-5.  

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

YMCA

When?

1.30-3pm

What?

𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑫𝒂𝒅𝒔!

Looking for a fun way to spend some quality time with your kids? Join us for 𝑭𝑹𝑬𝑬 soft play sessions for dads. Bring your little one in for an afternoon full of laughter and fun Plus, a family specialist from Barnardo's will be there to provide support and answer any questions you might have.

Do I need to book?

Yes please. Bookable on the YMCA website. Click the picture above for link.

North Prospect Family Hub, 91-93 North Prospect Road, PL2 2NA

When?

1.30-2.30pm

What?

A baby group for babies and young children aged 0 to pre walker/not yet walking confidently that will encourage your baby to explore and communicate confidently.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

North Prospect Family Hub, 91-93 North Prospect Road, PL2 2NA

When?

10-11am

What?

A session for children aged from birth to five to explore and communicate through messy play and craft activities.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

North Prospect Family Hub, 91-93 North Prospect Road, PL2 2NA

When?

Monthly Session, 10-11.30am

What?

For dads and male carers, a chance to meet other men and enjoy varied play activities with your children, plus snacks and a cuppa.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Please contact your local Family Hub for availability and to book :)

Green Ark Family Hub

When?

1-2.30pm

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Hub, Foulston Park (until October half term)

When?

9.30am-11am

What?

A drop in session for children 0-5 years with children centre staff available for advice.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

01752 313293

admin@larkcluster.co.uk

Where?

FourWoods Family Hub

When?

10-11am

What?

8 different themes on a rolling programme to join in and explore with your babies.

Themes including, Lets gets creative, Lets get messy, Lets Learn, Lets make music and more.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Where?

Nomony Family Hub

When?

1-2.30pm

What?

8 different themes on a rolling programme to join in and explore with your babies.

Themes including, Lets gets creative, Lets get messy, Lets Learn, Lets make music and more.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Onward House

When?

9.30-11am

What?

A stay & play group for all families who have English as an additional language. HV team are there weekly and provide a weigh in clinic.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Christ Church, ELM

When?

10-1130am (Term Time Only)

What?

A stay & play for children 0-5 varied themed activities.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Where?

Elm Centre

When?

1-2.30pm

What?

8 different themes on a rolling programme to join in and explore with your babies.

Themes including, Lets gets creative, Lets get messy, Lets Learn, Lets make music and more.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Morice Town Family Hub

When?

1.30-3pm

What?

A safe environment to meet other parents while your child enjoys new play experiences. Suitable for walking children under 5.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Morice Town Family Hub

When?

10-11.30am

What?

A safe environment to meet other parents while your child enjoys new play experiences. Suitable for walking children under 5.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Morice Town Family Hub, 1.30-3pm

Highview Family Hub, 9.30-11am

The Barn Family Hub, 10-11.30am

What?

Stay and play drop-in session with themed health topics. Health visitors on hand to assist with baby weighing, advice on feeding, diet, potty training, behaviour and parenting. Plus breastfeeding support.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Mount Wise Neighbourhood Centre

When?

6-7pm

What?

Ages 11-16

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

For parents and parents to be under 25

Various locations (check Facebook)

Wednesday 1-2.30pm

Except the week of the last Tuesday of every month when Y.I.P.P.E.E joins soft play, Central Methodist 1.15-2.30pm (i.e. Tuesday 30^th September, and no session on the Wednesday)

Various locations (check Facebook)

Wednesday 1-2.30pm

Except the week of the last Tuesday of every month when Y.I.P.P.E.E joins soft play, Central Methodist 1.15-2.30pm (i.e. Tuesday 30^th September, and no session on the wednesday)

North Prospect Family Hub

When?

10-11am, TIME ONLY

Starts 12/01/26

What?

A space to breathe and relax with art activities, music, drinks and snacks. Children welcome if you have no childcare. TERM

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Rees Family and Wellbeing Hub

When?

3.30-5pm

What?

A ‘warm space’ for primary school aged children and their families.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Devonport Library

When?

11-12pm

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Hope Baptist Church

When?

10-11.30am, TERM TIME ONLY, Starts 13/01/26

What?

A group for babies aged 0-12months, in partnership with North Prospect Family Hub. PEEP activities, advice around weaning, breast feeding and your child's development.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Plot

When?

1.30-2.30pm

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Green Ark Family Hub

When?

1st Thursday of each month, 1-2.30pm

What?

Special Guardianship Support Group - A new team has been created to support special guardianship and Kinship carers in Plymouth. If you are a special guardian or kinship carer, come along and have a chat. Children Welcome. Run by Plymouth City Council's Special Guardianship Support Team.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Morice Town Family Hub

When?

10-11am

What?

A happy group for babies and young children aged 0 to pre walker/not yet walking confidently, with nursery rhymes and activities to help develop your baby's senses.

Do I need to book?

Yes please, contact Morice Town Family Hub to book a space.

High View School, Efford, PL3 6JQ

plymouthcccentral@barnardos.org.uk

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

Southway Youth & Community Centre, Hendwell Centre, Hendwell Close, Plymouth, PL6 6TB

plymouthccnorth@barnardos.org.uk

01752 875933

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

01752 208660

admin-mt@larkcluster.co.uk

Opening hours

Mon - Thur: 8.30am - 4.30pm

Friday: 8.30am - 4pm

Sat and Sun: Closed

Stonehouse

Plymouth

PL1 1TL

manorstreetcc@actionforchildren.org.uk

Phone: 01752 686750

Opening hours

Monday: 9am to 4.30pm

Tuesday: 9am to 4.30pm

Wednesday: 9am to 4.30pm

Thursday: 9am to 4.30pm

Friday: 9am to 4.30pm

Saturday: Closed

Sunday: Closed

gives families free access to Togetherness resources to support wellbeing. For parents, carers, grandparents, and young people.

Learn from NHS clinical psychologists, practitioners, and other parents. The pathways will help you and your family understand and manage emotions in everyday life.