Local Events

FOOD Club invites you to celebrate the festive season with food, activities, arts and crafts and fun for all the family.   FOOD Club provides families with good-quality food at a low cost, while also reducing food waste.  

YourFamily offers free programmes in partnership with specialist health professionals and Southend Family Centres, providing valuable learning and activities for expectant parents and those with newborns, from pregnancy through the early months.  • Journey to Parenthood: A 6-week evening antenatal

The ABSS Specialist Health Visitors for Perinatal Mental Health invite past and present families for a fun drop-in event.  Bring the whole family to this festive celebration.   A Better Start Southend | Specialist Health Visitors for Perinatal Mental Health - A Better Start Southend

St Augustine's church along with Safe Harbour Bereavement Group are organising a Christmas Party with a difference for those who are lonely, bereaved, suffering from dementia and their carers - food, music, bingo, free raffle but also will be joined by support experts who will sit at the tables with

Tea and Tots have a few special dates to add to diaries from now until March 2025. The sessions are a great chance to meet local families, and for little ones to play and borrow Storysacks from the Southend Storysacks Library.

Please email mse.journeytoparenthoodsouthend@nhs.net for more information

WorkSkills have a number of free courses available for families with children aged 0-3 years who live in an ABSS ward within Southend. Email workskills@southend.gov.uk to find out more and book. Spaces are limited.

Work Skills have a few courses coming up this month, including a mental health awareness course for parents, a food safety course, and a first aid course.   All of the sessions are available to families with children aged 0-3 years who live in an ABSS ward within Southend. Email workskills@southend.

Pregnancy & Post Natal Yoga | Leigh-on-Sea | Yoga4all

A free financial wellbeing programme to help people improve their relationship with money has been expanded following a successful bid for funding. The workshop helps people learn more about budgeting, creating positive relationships with money, and how to manage income-related anxiety. To find o

A Better Start Southend | Work Skills - A Better Start Southend

If you are a young person with special educational needs and/ or a disability (SEND) or the parent carer of a child or young person with SEND and live in Southend, we want to hear from you. Southend SEND Independent Forum, the parent carer forum for Southend and the SEND Local Offer team invite you

Families Growing Together is a free project for families with children aged 0-4, offering a variety of activities like arts and crafts, sensory play, and outdoor sessions. A Better Start Southend | Families Growing Together - A Better Start Southend

YourFamily offers free programmes in partnership with specialist health professionals and Southend Family Centres, providing valuable learning and activities for expectant parents and those with newborns, from pregnancy through the early months. • Journey to Parenthood: A 6-week evening antenatal c

If you are on your own this Christmas call 01702 292620 and speak to Shoebury & Thorpe Bay Baptist Church & join them for Christmas lunch - booking is required in advance. Transport can also be arranged if needed depending on location STBBC

Families Growing Together is a free project for families with children aged 0-3, offering a variety of activities like arts and crafts, sensory play, and outdoor sessions. A Better Start Southend | Families Growing Together - A Better Start Southend

STBBC 90 Thorpedene gardens, Shoeburyness, Essex, SS3 9JD

Courses Run By Havens Hospices 31st October & 1st November- Children and Grief In this supportive, interactive and creative course, explore ways of working with pre and post- bereaved children up to the age of 11. 18th October- Teens and Grief This course will give you an insight into how teenager

Tuesdays 1.15-2.15pm Shoeburyness Youth Centre Free exercise class Achieve Thrive Flourish (atfcommunity.com)

An information event for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) in school year 9 and above, their parent carers, and professionals The Southend-on-Sea City Council Preparing for Adulthood team invite you to a Preparing for Adulthood Fair on Friday 18 October 2024. The