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 Children's Centre

When?

10-11.30am (Term-time ONLY)

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!

Plymstock

When?

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!

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.

Central Methodist Church, City Centre

When?

Fortnightly from the 30th July at 1.45-3pm

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.

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

When?

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!

Whitleigh Family Hub

When?

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 Solihull 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 children centres 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 at a cost of £20

CASH ONLY PLEASE.

Southway, Church of the Holy Spirit

When?

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!

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!

Rees Well-being & Family Hub

When?

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!

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

plymouthcceast@barnardos.org.uk

01752 875 933

Opening times:

Monday - Thursday 8.30-4.30pm

Friday 8.30-4pm

plymouthccnorth@barnardos.org.uk

01752 875 933

plymouthccnorth@barnardos.org.uk

07808 200 207

plymouthcccentral@barnardos.org.uk

plymouthcccentral@barnardos.org.uk

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

Southway Youth & Community Centre

Hendwell Centre, Hendwell Close, Plymouth, PL6 6TB

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!

The Barn

When?

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!

High View Children's Centre

When?

9.30-11am

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!

Compton Church

When?

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!

Nomony 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!

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!

St Francis Church, Honicknowle

When?

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!

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!

Central Library

When?

10.30-12pm

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.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Elm Church

When?

10 - 11.30am

What?

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

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Bookable through YMCA website

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YMCA

When?

Thursdays

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 starting from 25th July. 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.

Elm Church

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.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Little Box Café, The Box Museum

When?

4th August, 10-3pm

What?

Peep is for parents and carers with children from birth to five. We share ideas and activities that support your child's learning and development in everyday life - talking, singing, sharing books and playing together.

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.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Saltram, Plympton, Plymouth PL7 1UH

When?

28th July, 10.30-12.30pm

What?

Bring some snacks and join us for a picnic and a walk around the gardens at Saltram. We will meet by the duck pond at 10.30am.

Do I need to book?

Yes Please, call any of our Family Hubs to book a place.

The Little Box Café, The Box Museum

When?

5th, 12th August, 10-3pm

What?

Peep is for parents and carers with children from birth to five. We share ideas and activities that support your child's learning and development in everyday life - talking, singing, sharing books and playing together.

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.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Little Box Café, The Box Museum

When?

6th, 13th August, 10-3pm

What?

Peep is for parents and carers with children from birth to five. We share ideas and activities that support your child's learning and development in everyday life - talking, singing, sharing books and playing together.

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.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Little Box Café, The Box Museum

When?

7th, 14th August, 10-3pm

What?

Peep is for parents and carers with children from birth to five. We share ideas and activities that support your child's learning and development in everyday life - talking, singing, sharing books and playing together.

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.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

The Little Box Café, The Box Museum

When?

8th, 15th August, 10-3pm

What?

Peep is for parents and carers with children from birth to five. We share ideas and activities that support your child's learning and development in everyday life - talking, singing, sharing books and playing together.

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.

Do I need to book?

No need to book, just come along!

Whitleigh Family Hub

When?

What?

Pop up Play Village will be visiting our Family Hub and is all about making child's play of the world around them, inspiring and nurturing young minds through imaginative play.

Do I need to book?

Yes please, contact any of our Family Hubs for more information and to book your place.

Highview

When?

19th August

What?

Pop up Play Village will be visiting our Family Hub and is all about making child's play of the world around them, inspiring and nurturing young minds through imaginative play.

Do I need to book?

Yes please, contact any of our Family Hubs for more information and to book your place.

Whitleigh Family Hub

When?

19th August, 10-11.30am

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, just come along :)

Whitleigh Family Hub

When?

12th August, 10-11.30am

Do I need to book?

No need, just come along :)

The Barn Family Hub

When?

30th August, 9-4pm

What?

A fun day out for all the family. Free to attend.

Do I need to book?

No need, just come along :)

Elm Church

When?

15th August, 1-4pm

Do I need to book?

No need, just come along :)

Tothill Community Centre

When?

22nd August, 1-4pm

Do I need to book?

No need, just come along :)

Mount Edgcumbe

When?

Tuesday 22nd July, 11-3pm

What?

For parents aged under 25, with or without the little ones

• Join us as we explore Mount Edgcumbe, picnic and games  

• We’ll be using the cremyll foot ferry from Admirals Hard (fare not included)

• Don’t forget your sunhat, suncream, or waterproof and wellies and a picnic

Do I need to book?

BOOKING ESSENTIAL by 16^th July

TO BOOK CALL THE BARN FAMILY HUB 01752 362320 or any other Barnardo’s hub  

St Francis of Assissi Church, Honicknowle

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!