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 11am | Children's continence adviser | Second Monday of the month. For parents and carers of children aged 18 months and older. This drop-in session offers toilet training advice, support and early intervention from the age of 18 months, where it is known or anticipated there may be difficulties with toilet training. |
| 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 | No session 29 July. 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 11am | Soft play | 22 July. For ages 0 to 12 months. Book in advance. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Baby into books | 1 July. For ages 0 to 12 months. Book in advance. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Start for life – Stay and play: black and white session | 8 July. For ages 0 to 12 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. |
| 10:30am to 11:30am | Start for life – Messy play | 15 July. For ages 0 to 12 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. |
| 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 29 July. 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. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 11am to 5pm | Children's continence adviser | Second Monday of the month. For parents and carers of children aged 18 months and older. This session offers toilet training advice, support and early intervention from the age of 18 months, where it is known or anticipated there may be difficulties with toilet training. By referral only. |
| 11:30am to 12:30pm | Soft play | 22 July. For ages 12 months to 36 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. 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 – Baby massage | For ages 0 to 12 months. A 4-week course that offers a wonderful opportunity for you to bond and learn how to communicate with your baby through nurturing touch and massage in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Outdoor play | 22 July. For ages 24 months to 60 months. All welcome. |
| 3pm to 3:30pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 3:30pm to 4:30pm | Outdoor play | 22 July. For ages 4 years to 8 years. All welcome. |
| 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. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 10:30am | 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. By referral only. |
| 9:30am to 10:30am | Small world play | 16 July. For ages 24 months to 60 months. All welcome. |
| 9:30am to 11am | Childminder support group | Last Tuesday of the month. Offering support to the local community of childminders. By referral only. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 11am to midday | Small world play | 16 July. For ages 12 months to 24 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 48 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 | Bring a story to life – 'Handa's Surprise' | 2 July. 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. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Music and rhyme | 2 July. For ages 0 to 12 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Toddlers into books | 9, 16 July. 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. |
| 4pm to 5:30pm | Young carers group | Term-time only. Support session for children aged 4 years to 8 years who are identified as young carers. This group gives 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 | Immunisations | 3 July. Book in advance by phoning 01375 364 663. |
| 9am to 4pm | Mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine | No session 3, 17, 31 July. By referral only. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 9:30am to 10:30am | Start for life – Baby massage | For ages 0 to 12 months. A 4-week course that offers a wonderful opportunity for you to bond and learn how to communicate with your baby through nurturing touch and massage in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Book in advance. |
| 10am to 11:30am | Parent and carers panel | First Wednesday of the month. Sessions aim to improve services available by listening and giving opportunity for the voices of the community to be heard, whist encouraging networking and interpersonal interaction between professionals and community members. By referral only. |
| 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. |
| 12:15pm to 2pm | One Community – Steps to success job club opportunity | Drop-in session for parents and carers who receive Universal Credit. |
| 1:30pm to 2pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Let's talk potty training | 10 July. For ages 24 months to 60 months. An interactive session to help families gain knowledge and understanding about potty training. 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 31 July. 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. |
| 9:30am to 12:30pm | Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Parent Advisory Team Thurrock (PATT) | First Thursday of the month. For parents and carers of children aged 0 to 25 years, with their child or young person. Staff from Parent Advisory Team Thurrock (PATT) offer advice and support with issues around education – in particular, special educational needs support, education, health and care (EHC) plans, annual reviews, and exclusion from school. Book in advance by phoning 07702 127 252. |
| 10am to 11am | Start for life – Stay and play: just for dads | 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 dads welcome. |
| 11am to 11:30am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 11am to 1pm | B3 – Birth, Bumps and Belonging | Last Thursday of the month. A safe place for parents and carers with a child under 2 years, and for parents to be, of Afro-Caribbean heritage. 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 | 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 dads welcome. |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Start for life – Stay and play: just for dads | For ages 0 to 12 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. |
| 3pm to 3:30pm | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 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. |
| 9:15am to 10:15am | Garden group | For ages 24 months to 60 months. Fun activities in the garden for families with children. Please wear appropriate clothing. All welcome. |
| 9:30am to 10am | Sensory room | For ages 0 to 60 months. Book in advance. |
| 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. |
| 10am to midday | Empowering parents, empowering communities (EPEC) – Living with a teenager | 5 July. For parents and carers with children aged 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. |
| Midday to 1pm | Soft play | For ages 0 to 60 months. 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.