Last updated: 24 April 2025
Next review: 24 April 2026
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Family Hubs
Our Family Hubs provide a wide range of information, activities and services in your local area including 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 Leytonstone Family Hub:
- Play and learning activities
- Young Parents' Group
- You and Your New Baby, Stay and Play
- Play and Learn for Under-2s
- Play and Learn (0 to 4)
- Let's Create
- Tambini Music and Rhymes
- Dads' Club
- Health and wellbeing sessions
- Child Health Clinic
- Healthy Eating and Dental Health Drop-in (Wednesday and Thursday)
- Speech and Language Support Drop-in
- HENRY Infant Feeding Cafe (women only)
- Baby Massage
- Initial Sleep Consultation (sleep support sessions)
- Exploring Foods
- Eating Well
- Oral Health Promotion (Thursday and Friday)
- Family support
- Flourish (post-natal support group)
- Community Drop-in
- Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Drop-in
- Sessions for children with SEND
- Learning Together - Preschool