0 - 2 Years
Free activities and support for you and your 0 – 2 year olds in Lambeth. Feeding, bonding, playtime and you time. Some sessions include a free creche.
Fathers and influential males (FAIM) Under 5s Stay & Play (Term Time Only)
Brockwell Park PlaygroundOpportunity to meet other local Dad's and share fatherhood experiences. Have fun learning through play and find out what's happening locally. This […]
Zumba Fitness
Myatt's Field North Community Centre 24 Crawshay Road, BrixtonThis is a fun and easy dance workout especially for pregnant women and new mums wearing their baby in a sling or baby carrier (but don't worry if you get tired, baby can lie and watch on the mat). Your baby stays right there with you and is a great part of the workout and very much involved in helping you to tone up, burn calories and release 'happy' hormones.
Myatt’s Field Pantry
Myatt’s Field Centre 24 Crawshay RoadA pantry is a community shop offering members a weekly choice of healthy food. Each visit you pay just £2.50 or £5 […]
Jubilee Hall Pantry
Jubilee Hall Tulse HillA pantry is a community shop offering members a weekly choice of healthy food. Each visit you pay just £2.50 or £5 […]
Little Sunflowers
Allen Edwards Primary School Allen Edwards Primary School, Studley Road, StockwellFor families with children aged 0-3 with: free play, craft activities, light refreshments and guest speakers every fortnight during term time.
-Meet other local parents and careers, and share experiences
- Play and learn in a safe and stimulating environment
- Get ready to start nursery school
Family Dance sessions
GreenHut GreenHut, Brixton Windmill Gardens"Join us for a fun and engaging dance
session suitable for all ages!"
Moorlands Pantry
Moorlands Community Centre 50a Corry DriveA pantry is a community shop offering members a weekly choice of healthy food. Each visit you pay just £2.50 or £5 […]
Dream BiG Young Parents’ Hub ‘Let’s Start Working’ course
GreenHut GreenHut, Brixton Windmill GardensAre you a parent under 30? Is your child 5 years or under? Are you looking to get into work? This course […]
Fathers and influential males (FAIM) Under 5s Stay & Play (Term Time Only)
Brockwell Park PlaygroundOpportunity to meet other local Dad's and share fatherhood experiences. Have fun learning through play and find out what's happening locally. This […]
Zumba Fitness
Myatt's Field North Community Centre 24 Crawshay Road, BrixtonThis is a fun and easy dance workout especially for pregnant women and new mums wearing their baby in a sling or baby carrier (but don't worry if you get tired, baby can lie and watch on the mat). Your baby stays right there with you and is a great part of the workout and very much involved in helping you to tone up, burn calories and release 'happy' hormones.
Support available
Lambeth Larder
CONNECTING PEOPLE, FOOD, & SUPPORT. They help connect local people in financial need to emergency food and other services like advice, debt, and mental health support. Please use this website to find help nearby.
Visit WebsiteTulse Hill Community Advice
Free, in person, debt and benefits support. Appointments available on Mondays and Tuesdays, phone for an appointment.
Visit WebsiteCitizen’s Advice Kennington Hub
Telephone and in person support. They offer pre-booked, in person appointments. They can issue food bank vouchers.
Visit WebsiteCentre 70
Face to face, telephone, and email support. Open door sessions Tuesdays & Thursdays 10-1pm (last entry 12.45pm). Email and online form are the quickest way to make an appointment to speak an adviser Monday to Friday. They can issue food bank vouchers.
Visit WebsiteThe Breast Feeding Network
Get information and support on breastfeeding and find out about what's happening locally to you including support groups, drop-ins, walks, bilingual support and virtual support.
Visit WebsiteResources for new parents
A list of useful resources to advise and guide you as a new parent.
Visit WebsiteSpecialist SEND support services
Here you can find out how the Education Psychology service, the Autism Pathway, sensory support, occupational therapy and other specialists services, can support children and young people.
Visit WebsiteEducation, Health and Care (EHC) Plans
Information about education, health and care plans, solving disagreements, finding the right school and college places and education personal budgets.
Visit WebsiteEarly years SEND support
Find out how child children with SEND are supported before they start school, what the Early Years SEN service does and what the EarlyBird programme can do for parents. There's also information about early years services in other boroughs around Lambeth.
Visit WebsiteStrengthening Families, Strengthening Communities
Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities is a 13 week group programme offered to parents/carers of young people aged from 11 to 18 years old. The course supports you to achieve positive change for your family by promoting your child’s social skills and self-discipline, helping you to develop strategies to deal with challenges at home and increasing your confidence and competence.
Visit WebsiteHealthy Relationships Matter
See what conflict can look like in relationships, get advice on how to manage it, and access helpful tools and information for further support. Get parenting advice for adults sharing parenting of a child, whether it's with a current or former partner or another family member.
Visit WebsiteStronger Relationships
Stronger Relationships programmes offer a comprehensive approach, combining online sessions, engaging workshops, and valuable resources for anyone co-parenting children. Co-parents can expect to learn effective communication styles, problem-solving skills, and conflict-resolution techniques.
Visit WebsiteOnline Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities
Online Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities is a virtual 6 week group programme which introduces the key concepts of the full Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities programme. These key concepts include healthy relationships, understanding and managing behaviour and enhancing children’s self-esteem.
Visit WebsiteBeing a Parent 2-11
Being a Parent is a 9-week group programme offered to parents/carers of children aged from 2 to 11 years old. The course aims to help children and families get the very best start in life by supporting you to manage your and your child's feelings, communicate and interact positively with your child, use positive behaviour management strategies, and manage parental stress.
Visit WebsiteBeing a Parent 1-3
Being a Parent is a 9-week group programme offered to parents/carers of children aged from 1 to 3 years old. The course aims to help children and families get the very best start in life by supporting you to manage your and your child's feelings, communicate and interact positively with your child, use positive behaviour management strategies, and manage parental stress.
Visit WebsiteEarlyBird
EarlyBird is a 3 month group programme offered to parents/
Visit WebsiteCircle of Security
Circle of Security Parenting is an 8 week group programme offered to parents/carers of children aged from 4 months to 5 years. The course aims to help you to understand and respond to your child’s needs, support your relationship with your child, improve your child’s self-esteem and be a confident parent.
Visit WebsiteTogether Time
Together Time is a group for parents with babies between 3 and 8 months old. It's a safe space to explore your relationship with your baby, learn about baby-led play and share feelings and experiences with other parents. These sessions often take place in your local children's centre.
Visit WebsiteBaby and Us
Baby and Us is a 9-week group programme offered to parents/carers of babies under 12 months. The course is led by parent group leaders. It will help support you in understanding your baby’s cues, coping with challenges around feeding, sleep, and crying, interacting positively with your baby and managing parental stress.
Visit WebsiteParenting Support Service
The Parenting Support Service offers a range of group based or online parenting courses for families living in Lambeth.
Visit WebsiteIRMO
IRMO work to enable the development, agency, and participation of Latin Americans and other Spanish and Portuguese speakers, by responding to both immediate needs and structural inequalities. They offer high-quality information and advice services, opportunities for development and training, support for children and young people and a platform to seek social and systemic change.
Visit WebsiteBreastfeeding Peer Support Network
BFN offer advice and support from fellow parents with breastfeeding experience. Support groups, social activities and 121s if you need it.
Visit WebsiteHome Start Lambeth
Home-Start Lambeth may be able to help by offering you volunteer home visiting support or you may wish to attend one of the Family Groups if you ever feel isolated, post-natal illness, coping with illness, struggling with overwhelm, recently arrived in the UK or other difficulties you might be experiencing.
Visit WebsiteFathers and influential males (FAIM) Under 5s Stay & Play
This ‘Dads Stay and Play’ session takes place every Saturday morning, why not come and join in. The session runs term time only and is a great opportunity to meet other local dads, share fatherhood experiences and have fun learning through play. There’s also lots of opportunities to find out and share what is going on locally.
Visit WebsiteCaring Dads
Caring Dads is a group intervention programme aiming to help fathers, of any age, improve their relationship with their children. It helps dads learn how to spend time with children in healthy ways, and to understand the impact on children of controlling, abusive and neglectful actions, which include witnessing domestic violence.
Visit WebsiteTurn2Us
Turn2us is a national charity providing practical information and support to end financial insecurity. Use their free Benefits Calculator and Grants Search to find out what help you can get.
Visit WebsiteBrixton Advice Centre
Brixton Advice offer free online, in person on phone call advice service. Including: Help with the cost of living, Housing, Benefits, Debt, Legal advice around Work, Family, Consumer, Support for Older people, Younger people, Domestic Violence, Immigration, Health and Care and Discrimination.
Visit WebsiteUnity Matters
Unity Matters support parents and bring families together. They work with families from conception through to children starting school. They offer a range of workshops and activities: dad-focused work; what to expect when expecting ;parenting advice; supporting early development; potty training & sleep workshop; parenting programmes; and group story & rhyme time.
Visit WebsiteSunshine International Arts
Sunshine International Arts (S.i.A) is an artistic, educational and carnival production company. They are committed to inspiring the next generation through the art of carnival and traditional folklore. They run community outreach projects and workshops for school children and adults, including arts, crafts and culture workshops, creative dance, and holistic health workshops.
Visit WebsiteGrove Playground
The playground in Gordon Grove has some of the most adventurous climbing structures in London. It is free to come along and normally for ages 6-14 but they also now have early years stay and play sessions. There is also a range of year around midweek after-school special needs and integrated play sessions.
Visit WebsiteThe Platform Café
The Platform Café is a community space in the heart of Loughborough Junction, providing healthy, nutritious food and a welcome space to feel at home. They prepare homemade lunches using freshly picked seasonal produce grown at their community garden, the Loughborough Farm, as well as surplus donations. They offer catering and local delivery.
Visit WebsiteLoughborough Farm
Loughborough Farm are a group of local people from a diverse range of backgrounds who grow, learn, work and have fun together. They also run a weekly nature group for parents, toddlers and babies for families to learn and get outside for play and exercise, growing food and healthy eating.
Visit WebsiteLoughborough Junction Action Group
Loughborough Junction Action Group (LJAG) is a group of volunteers who live or work in Loughborough Junction. They share a passion for their neighbourhood and want to see it thrive even through challenging times. Their projects bring opportunities to talk to neighbours, make new friends, learn new skills, and develop innovative ideas.
Visit WebsiteBesty’s Inspirational Guidance (BiG)
BiG run motivational programmes that enable children to enhance physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, including their ABC Football Programme for 4 - 6-year-olds and their Dream BiG Young Parents’ Hub which is a place where young parents can enjoy self-care and self-development activities to enhance their health and physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
Visit WebsiteDream BiG Young Parents’ Hub
Dream BiG Young Parents’ Hub is for young parents to come together to meet, play, grow, strive and be healthy. The Hub provides the platform where young parents can focus on their needs through engaging in an employability skills course as well as self-care and self-development activities. Creche and lunch provided.
Visit WebsiteBrixton Wings
Brixton Wings is a volunteer-led parent organisation which provides early intervention programmes for children and young people. They run term-time programmes including group classes, music, drama, chess club, cycling, rowing, Maths and English booster sessions, and a full range of other activities.
Visit WebsiteBilingual Support
Do you need advice or advocacy support? Do you need help applying for jobs or benefits? Would you like support with budgeting? Do you need other forms of support? Stockwell Partnership offers both general support and bilingual Portuguese/English advice.
Visit WebsiteStockwell Partnership
Stockwell Partnership undertake a range of activities in their own neighbourhood, Stockwell, including: bilingual advocacy – Portuguese / Spanish / Italian; community engagement and events; a public forum about neighbourhood issues; and Thriving Stockwell – forging links with the health sector and local community to reduce health inequalities.
Visit WebsiteOnline Art and wellbeing resources
Try out some of Art4Space's art and wellbeing activities at home. Lots of ieas to try out including making mosaics, creating natural dyes and mindfullness activities.
Visit WebsiteVolunteer with Art4Space
Come and get involved by volunteering at Art4Space studios and experience an excellent way of gaining new skills and hands on experience. Creative Surgery: This is a weekly volunteer session held on Tuesdays between 1 and 5pm. Come when it suits you.
Visit WebsiteArt4Space
Art4Space encourage's children, young people, and adults to appreciate art and creativity, through activities like drawing, crafts, and open discussion. Their programmes foster safe spaces to address mental health concerns and the impacts of social isolation. They specialise in mosaic, ceramic, and textiles to deliver projects, training courses, and classes in a range of education and community venues.
Visit WebsiteHealthy Recipes
Try out one of Healthy Living Platform's tasty recipes shared by parents and volunteers. Delicious recipes from around the world.
Visit WebsiteFood pantry (Community shop)
The Healthy Living Platform pantry is a low-cost, community shop offering members a weekly choice of healthy food for an affordable price. Food offered is a mix of fresh fruit and veg along with other food and cupboard staples.
Visit WebsiteBecome a Food Ambassador
Calling all Lambeth residents! Are you passionate about food and nutrition? Are you ready to make a positive impact on your community? Join Healthy Living Platform's Food Ambassadors course! Unlock Your Culinary Potential! Cook with Confidence! Make an Impact: Volunteer with HLP! Get into work! Free for Lambeth Residents!
Visit WebsiteHealthy Living Platform
Healthy Living Platform offers activities which benefit the health and wellbeing of the whole community. We encourage healthy and sustainable lifestyles by giving practical training, education, information, and support on topics such as nutrition, cooking, food growing, health and wellbeing. Our food pantries offer weekly choices of healthy food for a pay-as-you-go modest cost.
Visit WebsiteWhippersnappers
Whippersnappers provides workshops and performances in music, dance, art, and theatre to schools, nurseries, one o’clock clubs and community organisations. Our ‘Choose what we do club’ is for pre-school children with SEND; children who are displaying early signs of additional needs (but are undiagnosed); and their family members.
Visit WebsiteFree library of songs and videos for children and their families
You can watch your child’s favourite songs performed by Whippersnappers and enjoy our original animations made by local Camberwell Arts students. You can watch short single clips or enjoy a longer themed session. Check out Caroline’s Ghana clips for a more international vibe.
Visit WebsiteLambeth Childcare options
Find out about the different types of childcare available to you. Including: Childminders; Breakfast clubs after-school clubs and holiday playschemes; Nurseries and preschools; and Nannies, au pairs and babysitters
Visit WebsiteStart for Life
Lambeth's Start for Life offer provides support to parents and carers from a child’s conception until their second birthday. This is a critical time in a child’s development and a time of significant change within a family's life. There is a wide range of universal, targeted and specialist services to support you and your child.
Visit WebsiteLambeth Family Hub Directory
Find local activities, organisations and services using their directory of services for children and young people, including all Ofsted registered childcare available in Lambeth.
Visit WebsiteFamilies Information Service
Families information service provides free, reliable and impartial information and assistance to parents, carers, professionals and young people about local services and activities available to you and your family.
Visit WebsiteLambeth Children’s Centres
Children’s centres are the main base for the delivery of Better Start services for babies and children aged from 0-4 and their families in Lambeth. These include health services like: ante-natal and post-natal care; baby clinics; groups to support breastfeeding and infant feeding; support around children’s diet and nutrition; and stay and play sessions
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