Here is a list of local facilities and initiatives to explore with your little ones. Not only are they fun for the kids, but they are a great way to meet other local parents in the community too!
Baby Zone
Free drop in for babies aged 0 to 5
Every Thursday 9.30am to 2.30pm (term time only)
Legacy Youth Zone, 125 Whitehorse Road, Croydon, CR0 2LG
www.babyzone.org.uk/parents
Bouncers
Tuesday: 10.00am to 11.30am
Beulah Family Church, Beulah Crescent, Thornton Heath, UK
Contact: office@beulahfamilychurch.co.uk
Christ Church Methodist - Addiscombe
For ages 0 to 5, £1 per family group per session
Mondays and Thursdays 9.30am to 11.30am
54 South Way, Shirley, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 8RP
Contact Adelle: 02087775148
Christ Church - Purley
Tuesdays 9.30 to 11.00am for under 5s and their carers. Suggested donation for a family £1
Christ Church Purley, Brighton Road, Purley, Surrey, CR8 2BN
Email: office@christchurchpurley.org.uk
www.christchurchpurley.org
Emmanuel
£2 per child (age 1+) or £1 per baby (under 1)
Wednesday 10.00am to 11.30am
Term Time
Normanton Road, CR2 7AF
Contact: joanna.lines@emmanuelcroydon.org.uk
emmanuelcroydon.org.uk/toddlers
Mindful Mums
Free peer support groups, with mums supporting mums
Tuesdays - 1.00pm to 2.30pm
Eliot Bank Children's Centre Thorpewood Avenue, Sydenham, London, SE26 4BU
www.happity.co.uk/blg-mind
Posh Tots
Tuesday - 10 to 11:45am
Norbury Methodist Church, Pollards Hill North, London SW16 4NL, UK
www.croydonmeth.org/pre-school-groups
Rhymetime
Croydon Children's Library - Free sing-along sessions for under fives and their parents or carers
Thornton Heath Rhymetime - Wednesdays 11am
Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7JB
Tel: 020 7884 5185
Central Rhymetime - Thornton Heath Rhymetime - Wednesdays 11.00am
Level 0, Central Library, Croydon Clocktower, Katharine Street, Croydon, CR9 1ET
Tel: 020 8726 6900
Norbury Rhymetime - Thursdays 11.00am
Beatrice Avenue, London, SW16 4UW 020 7884 5215
www.croydon.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-04/croydon-libraries-rhymetimes---under-fives-sessions---april-2022.pdf (EXTERNAL PDF DOWNLOAD)
Songs and Smiles
An intergenerational music group for 0 to 4 year olds, their grown-ups and older people, held in care homes and assisted living schemes. Free/ donate what you can
Wimbledon (South London)
Kew House (Hallmark Care Home)
58 Spencer Hill Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EL
Tuesday 11.00am
Contact: Jenny Reed, Content and Communications Manager 07747 004491
Tunstall Road Nursery Baby and Toddler Group
The baby and toddler group is run by volunteers 3 mornings a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9.10am till 11.15am.
Tunstall Road
Croydon
CR0 6TY
www.tunstall.croydon.sch.uk/contact-us