Last updated: 23 April 2025
Next review: 23 April 2026
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Family Hubs
Our Family Hubs provide a wide range of information, activities, and services in your local area. This includes health, learning and play activities, childcare, family support, employment support, housing advice, money and benefits advice, and much more.
We know that all families need support from time to time to look after their wellbeing and help their babies and children thrive.
Our Family Hubs are a place where families, friends, and professionals can come together in a relaxed and friendly environment and support each other to achieve this.
Services provided at these hubs are in partnership with:
Best Start in Life
Family Hubs activities for children aged 0 to 5 are part of Best Start in Life, a government-funded programme supporting Waltham Forest's parents and carers with their children’s growth.
You can find Best Start in Life services in all four Family Hubs and other community spaces throughout every neighbourhood in the borough.
The following provision can be found at Chingford Family Hub:
- Play and learning activities
- Play and Learn sessions (0 to 4 years)
- You and Your New Baby, Stay and Play
- Dads' Club
- Young Parents’ Group
- Grandparents group
- Health and wellbeing support
- Speech and Language Support Drop-in
- HENRY Infant Feeding Cafe (women only)
- Baby Massage
- Child Health Clinic
- Exploring Foods
- Starting Solids Workshop
- Dental Health Drop-In
- Oral Health Promotion
- Initial Sleep Consultation
- Eating Well
- Family support
- Flourish, Post-Natal Support Group
- Community Drop-In
- Quit Right Waltham Forest
- Violence Against Women and Girls Drop-In
- Peer to Peer Support Group
- Sessions for children with SEND
- Learning together - Pre-school
Youth provision
Chingford Family Hub is hosting events and activities as part of the Waltham Forest Space4All youth programme. The Space4All project sits within our Family Hubs programme, bringing key services to residents in their local neighbourhood.
These sessions provide a safe space for young people to
- go and relax in
- meet new friends
- develop new skills.
Every Friday from 4:15pm to 6:30pm
These free after school sessions are for young people aged 8 to 12 and are led by Treasure Me Kids.
Sessions include sports, arts and crafts, homework club, cooking, mentoring and more. All sessions provide warm healthy food.
To sign-up Visit the Space4All Treasure Our Youth Junior Sessions at Chingford Family Hub page