Playgroups:

What: A Ministry of Education endorsed playgroup for parents, caregivers and their children where you can enjoy playing and socialising in our inviting venue.

When: Every Monday and Tuesday during term time between 10 and 12 am.

 

Music Playgroup:

What: A Ministry of Education endorsed music group for preschoolers, run by a professional music group teacher. There is a cost associated with this playgroup.

When: Every Thursday during term time between 10 am and 12 pm (music starts at 11am).

 

Dad's Playgroup:

What: A playgroup just for dads, where they can come and have fun with their children and meet other dads, bake and butties will be served - blokes only!

When: The last Saturday of the month between 9.30 and 11.30 am.

Workshops:

What: We run regular workshop on all sorts of topics; depending on the interests of the parents and caregivers we meet.

When: Dates and times vary. You can find out what’s on when by contacting us.

Pamper Night for Mums:

What: A relaxing evening for mums where they can socialise and be pampered; for an evening it’s all about you!

When: Once a year. The pamper night will be advertised closer to the date with more details.

Parenting Courses:  

What: We run parenting courses for parents of preschoolers, primary aged children and teenagers. These are relaxed, informal parenting sessions run over six weeks. The focus is on making your parenting experience a really positive one.

When: Our next parenting course will be the Toolbox one for parents of 0-6 yearolds. They will take place on Monday evenings beginning on the 23rd of April 2012. The course will run for six weeks. 

 

About the cost

 

The Family Space aims to help you strengthen your family life. We try to keep costs to an absolute minimum and we are grateful to the people and trusts who donate generously to help make this happen. Some of our programmes unfortunately do have costs associated with them to keep them going. We want everyone to be able to come to our activities and are committed to finding a way to enable this. So please contact us to find out about the costs and to find a way to make it work for you.

 

                                                                                                                                                           

Community Support                                                                                                    

The Family Space wants to support families by providing them with a place where information is available and a community worker is there to take the time to listen and journey with families for a better outcome.

Community support service can be very broad, the most common issues are: WINZ assistance, support in communication with other agencies and organisations, providing information, referring and practical assistance.

We acknowledge the privilege we have in working alongside families and we are committed to doing this in the most respectful and culturally sensitive way we know. All community work is supervised and we have policies in place to ensure the integrity of our staff and the privacy of our visitors.

This is a free service.