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Easington Family Hub


Find out what's on at Easington Family Hub.

Weekly activities

Activity/group

Day

Time

Baby and MeMondays1.00pm to 2.30pm
Toddler and MeTuesdays9.30am to 11.00am
Infant Feeding Support Group - Support for mams, dads and carers around feeding their baby or child.Mondays2.00pm to 3.00pm

Growing healthy drop-in sessions

Thursdays

10.30am to 11.30am

Early Latch - Our early latch support appointments are for babies aged between 10 days and 6 weeks and will give you hints and tips to help you breastfeeding successfully. Appointments are available at the Family Hub and can be booked with your health visitor.Tuesdays10.00am to 1.00pm

More activities

Activity/course

Start date/time

Duration

Starting Solids - Is a free 90 minute workshop and looks at how to know your baby is ready to start solids, suitable first foods and progress to finger foods and family foods. Choking is also discussed. All participants will receive a free resource that can support them on their journey.

Monday from 1.00pm to 2.30pm on:

  • 10 March 2025
1.5 hours

Healthy Teeth - Is a free 90 minute workshop that looks at how consuming certain foods and drinks can affect our teeth, healthy swaps and tooth brushing, how, when to start and strategies for encouraging our children to clean teeth. All participants will receive a free resource that can support them on their journey.

Monday from 1.00pm to 2.30pm on:

  • 24 March 2025
1.5 hours

Fussy Eaters - Is a 90 minute workshop for parents and carers where we explore the difficulties of coping with a child that eats a limited range of foods, looking at portion sizes and ways to create enjoyable family mealtimes.

Tuesday from 1.00pm to 2.30pm on:

  • 14 January 2025
1.5 hours

Chill kids - For children aged 7 to 11 years old, helping them to understand their big feelings and find positive ways to manage them.

Wednesday from 4.00pm to 5.00pm on:

  • 4 March 2025
6 weeks

Durham SEND Information Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) drop-in sessions - For parents/carers of families with special educational needs and/or disabilities, drop in to ask SENDIASS for impartial information or advice

Wednesday from 12.30pm to 3.30pm on:

  • 5 February 2025
  • 5 March 2025
  • 2 April 2025

Drop-in

DurhamWorks Drop-in - Support to help 16 to 24 year olds into education, employment or training.

Thursday from 10.00am to 1.00pm on:

  • 12 December 2024 
  • 9 January 2025
  • 13 February 2025
  • 13 March 2025
  • 10 April 2025

Drop-in

Supporting Speech and Language Development (WellComm) (online booking required) - To identify children aged 3 to 4 years who are experiencing barriers to speech and language development and provide strategies and activities for you to use at home.

Book a place on a Family Hub event

Friday from 9.30am to 12.30pm on:

  • 3 January 2025
  • 7 February 2025
  • 7 March 2025
  • 4 April 2025

1 hour

Staying Cool Teen - For teenagers, looking at anger management and ways to deal with their feelings.

Tuesday from 12.30pm to 4.30pm on:

  • 11 February 2025 and 18 February 2025
2 half days
Let's Talk at Home - For mams, dads and carers of children aged 3 to 4 years. These play based sessions are fun, practical and filled with talking tips to help develop your child's speech, language and communication skills, at home using their favourite activities.

Tuesday from 1.30pm to 2.30pm from:

  • 4 March 2025
6 weeks

Supporting your Autistic Child - For mams, dads and carers of young people who are autistic (or pre diagnosis) to help you have a better understanding of autism and how to meet the needs of your child.

To book a place Contact Durham Learn.

Wednesday from 12 noon to 2.00pm from:

  • 22 January 2025
10 weeks

Safer Choices -For young people secondary school age to understand risky behaviours, peer pressure, consequences and how to make safer choices.

Wednesday from 4.00pm to 5.00pm from:

  • 5 March 2025
6 weeks

Incredible Years Pre-school - Learn how to improve the positive interactions between you and your child. Develop skills to help you promote your child's social, emotional, and language development, and make sure that they are ready to start school.

Thursday from 9.30am -to 1.30pm from:

  • 6 February 2025
9 weeks
Education Psychologist - Talk to the Educational Psychology team about any concerns you may have about your child such as learning, communication and language, social and emotional-wellbeing, practical skills or being independent.

Thursday from 12.30pm to 2.00pm on:

  • 16 January 2025
  • 20 March 2025
1.5 hours

How to get here

Easington Family Hub
Whickham Street
Easington Colliery
Peterlee
County Durham
SR8 3DJ

Parking

There is a small car park with 4 parking spaces. Street parking available nearby.



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