Children's centres
Tilbury Family Hub
Address
London Road,
Tilbury,
RM18 8EY
You can phone or visit our Brighter Futures Tilbury Family Hub at the following times:
- Monday to Thursday from 8:30am to 5pm
- Fridays from 8:30am to 4:30pm
Mondays
| Time | Activity | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9am to 4pm | Midwife appointments | Pre-natal checks, advice and support for you and your baby. Book in advance. |
| 9:15am to 10:15am | Start for life – Stay and play | 30 September, 7, 14 October. For ages 12 months to 24 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. All welcome. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 10:30am | Domestic abuse and violence support with Changing Pathways | Drop-in support for victims – female and male – of domestic abuse and violence. |
| 10am to 11am | Essentials bank | Essential items for babies and children. Drop-in. |
| 10am to 4:30pm | Substance misuse and support service | For ages 18 years and older. Drop-in or phone Lorraine on 07485 359 896. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Fun with toys | 7 October. For ages 0 to 12 months. Book in advance. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Start for life – Stay and play: red theme | 14 October. For ages 0 to 12 months. For ages 24 months to 60 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. Book in advance. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Messy play babies: autumn | 21 October. For ages 0 to 12 months. Book in advance. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Start for life – Stay and play: autumn | 28 October. For ages 0 to 12 months. For ages 24 months to 60 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. Book in advance. |
| 10:30am to 12:30pm | Infant feeding | For ages 0 to 12 months. Support sessions for you to discuss any matters relating to feeding your baby – for example, breastfeeding, formula feeding and introducing solid foods. Book in advance by phoning 0300 300 1999. |
| 10:45am to 11:45am | Start for life – Stay and play | No session 21, 28 October. For ages 24 months to 60 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. All welcome. |
| 10:45am to 11:45am | REAL – autumn | 21 October. For ages 36 months to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 12:30pm to 3pm | Peabody – budgeting, benefits and housing advice | First Monday of the month. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Baby massage | From 16 September. For ages 0 to 12 months. This 5-week course offers a wonderful opportunity for you to bond and learn how to communicate with your baby through gentle strokes using your hands. Each week we will focus on a different part of your baby's body. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Domestic abuse and violence support with Changing Pathways | Drop-in support for victims – female and male – of domestic abuse and violence. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Messy play: autumn | 21 October. For ages 12 months to 24 months. Messy activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. Book in advance. |
| 3pm to 3:30pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 4pm to 4:30pm | Sensory room for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) | For ages 5 years to 8 years. Book in advance. |
Tuesdays
| Time | Activity | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9am to midday | Antenatal blood screening | Blood screening during pregnancy. Book in advance. |
| 9am to 4pm | Midwife appointments | Pre-natal checks, advice and support for you and your baby. Book in advance. |
| 9am to 4:30pm | Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) | For ages 0 to 19 years, or up to 25 years for young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND). By referral only. |
| 9:15am to 10:15am | Chatterbox | For ages 24 months to 36 months. A structured language group providing support, advice and guidance to help your child develop their communications skills. Family hub staff are trained and accredited to deliver the Chatterbox sessions. By referral only. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 11am | Childminder support group | 8 October. Offering support to the local community of childminders. By referral only. |
| 10am to midday | STOP parenting programme | For parents and carers. By referral only. |
| 10am to midday | Autumn crafts | 22 October. For ages 3 years to 11 years. Book in advance by phoning Thurrock Adult Community College on 01375 372 476 and quoting course code FL5025Y24. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Chatterbox | For ages 24 months to 36 months. A structured language group providing support, advice and guidance to help your child develop their communications skills. Family hub staff are trained and accredited to deliver the Chatterbox sessions. By referral only. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| Midday to 5pm | Newborn screening | Includes baby weighing and heel-prick blood tests for newborn babies, from day 5 to day 8. Book in advance. |
| 1pm to 2pm | Wellcomm – talk together | For ages 36 months to 28 months. Talk together is a parent and practitioner toolkit that can identify children who need speech and language support. It includes fun activities to enhance your child's speech and language development. Sessions will also share activities and ideas to support your child's speech and language development at home. By referral only. |
| 1:30pm to 2pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Stay and play | 8 October. For ages 24 months to 60 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. All welcome. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Messy play | 15 October. For ages 24 months to 60 months. Messy activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Bring a story to life – Owl Babies/td> | 29 October. For ages 24 months to 60 months. Sessions focus on a chosen theme or storybook to help create and build learning around imaginary play. Book in advance. |
| 3pm to 3:30pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 4pm to 5:30pm | Young carers group | Support sessions for children aged 4 years to 8 years who are identified as young carers. These groups are to give the children a break from caring, to come and have fun and take part in different activities like playing in the garden and socialising with other children in the same situation as themselves. Refreshments are provided for children in the group. By referral only. |
Wednesdays
| Time | Activity | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9am to midday | Speech and language clinic | Third Wednesday of the month. Book in advance by emailing drop-in@nelft.nhs.uk |
| 9am to 1pm | 1 year-olds and 2 year-olds development assessment checks | Health and development assessment to check your child's weight, height, learning, diet and behaviour. Book in advance. |
| 9am to 4pm | Midwife appointments | Pre-natal checks, advice and support for you and your baby. Book in advance. |
| 9am to 4pm | Mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine | 2, 16, 23 October. By referral only. |
| 9am to 5pm | Counselling | By referral only. |
| 9:15am to 10am | Story time and rhymes | 23 October. For ages 0 to 12 months. All welcome. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 11:30am | Henry | For ages from pregnancy to 60 months. Supporting the whole family to make positive lifestyle changes, creating healthier happier home environments, and building healthier communities. This includes improving nutrition, emotional wellbeing, parenting skills, breastfeeding and getting more active. Book in advance. |
| 10:15am to 11am | Story time and rhymes | 23 October. For ages 12 months to 60 months. All welcome. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 11am to 11:45am | Developmental play group | For ages 8 months to 3 years. By referral only. |
| 11am to midday | Baby sign and communication – Treetops speech and language | 16 October. For ages 3 months to 18 months. Book in advance |
| 12:15pm to 2pm | One Community – Steps to success job club opportunity | Drop-in session for parents and carers who receive Universal Credit. |
| 1pm to 2pm | Parent carer panel | 16 October. For parents and carers. Sessions aim to improve services available by listening and giving opportunity for the voices of the community to be heard, whilst encouraging networking and interpersonal interaction between professionals and community members. By refrral only. |
| 1:30pm to 2pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 3pm | Baby weighing clinic | Drop-in session for ages 0 to 60 months. All welcome. |
| 1:30pm to 3pm | Start for life – Stay and play | No session 9 October. For ages 0 to 24 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. All welcome. |
| 3pm to 3:30pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 4pm to 4:30pm | Sensory room for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) | For ages 5 years to 8 years. Book in advance. |
Thursdays
| Time | Activity | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9am to 4pm | Midwife appointments | Pre-natal checks, advice and support for you and your baby. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 11:30am | Well Homes | Second Thursday of the month. Improving the health and wellbeing of Thurrock homeowners and non-council tenants by providing support with repairs and safety in the home and offering referrals to a range of health and lifestyle services, such as free NHS checks, exercise and debt advice. Drop-in session. |
| 10am to 11am | Start for life – Stay and play: just for dads | 17 October. For ages 0 to 60 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. All dads welcome. |
| 10am to midday | Halloween crafts | 31 October. For ages years to 11 years. Book in advance by phoning Thurrock Adult Community College on 01375 372 476 and quoting course code FL5026Y24. |
| 10am to 12:30pm | Empowering parents, empowering communities (EPEC) – Living with a teenager | 3, 10, 17 October. Parents and carers of young people of ages 11 years to 16 years. A friendly and fun course run by parents for parents. These are informal sessions to give new ideas on building better communication and relationships with your child. Book in advance. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 11am to 1pm | B3 – Bumps, Birth and Belonging | 31 October. For parents to be and those with a child under 2 years. A safe place for parents and carers of Afro-Caribbean heritage and parents to be. All welcome. |
| 1:30pm to 2pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Stay and play | No session 31 October. For ages 12 months to 24 months. Fun activities for you and your child. Sessions promote social skills and stimulation to support your child's development, encouraging speech and language, sharing and turn-taking, and exploring new and exciting activities. Sessions also offer ideas to support your child's learning at home. All welcome. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Toddlers into books | 17, 24 October. For ages 12 months to 36 months. Introducing your child to books that will promote their speech and language and support their literacy and mark-making skills. Book in advance. |
| 3pm to 3:30pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 3:15pm to 5pm | Come dine with me | For ages 7 years to 11 years. Book in advance by phoning Thurrock Adult Community College on 01375 372 476 and quoting course code FL5021Y24. |
| 3:30pm to 4:30pm | Outdoor play | 10 October. For ages 5 years to 8 years. All welcome. |
| 4pm to 5pm | Children's support group | By referral only. |
Fridays
| Time | Activity | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9am to midday | Antenatal blood screening | Blood screening during pregnancy. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 10:30am | Early words together | For ages 36 months to 48 months. Enjoy exploring stories, rhymes and being creative with your child. This programme shares ideas and activities that support learning and development in everyday life – talking, singing, sharing books and playing together. Book in advance. 4 October – Imaginative play. 11 October – Songs and rhymes. 18 October – Books and stories. |
| 10am to 11am | Soft play | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 10am to 11am | Time for you and baby too | From pre-birth to 24 months. Weekly wellbeing group offering emotional support in a safe environment for you and your little one. All welcome. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| Midday to 1pm | Soft play | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| Midday to 2pm | Triple P babies | Pre-birth and ages up to 1 year. This programme gives you practical strategies to create the best environment for your baby's development, helping you feel more confident as you begin your parenting journey. Learn ways to cope with frequent crying, set up good sleep habits, read your baby's cues, look after yourself, adapt to changes in family life, and more. It's easier with positive parenting strategies. Book in advance. |
| Midday to 4:30pm | New born screening | Includes baby weighing and heel-prick blood tests for new born babies, from day 5 to day 8. Book in advance. |
| 1pm to 2pm | Essentials bank | Essential items for babies and children. Drop-in. |
| 1:30pm to 2pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Special educational needs and disability (SEND) – Just for You | An informal play and activity session for children with additional support needs, and their parents. The sessions have visitors from other services and support agencies. This also gives parents and carers the opportunity to network with other parents in the community. Phone the family hub for more information. |
| 3pm to 3:30pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 3pm to 4pm | Soft play | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
More activities and support
A wide range of activities are organised at other family hubs across Thurrock. You can find out more about these activities in the document below. Check the timetables of individual family hubs for latest details.
For information on local support services during pregnancy and for families with a baby up to 2 years-old, go to Start for Life.
Registration
You can use the registration form below to register yourself and your child at this family hub, or any of our other family hubs.