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Our address: at Heath & District Lighthorne Heath & District Children’s Centre Stratford Road Children’s Centre Lighthorne Heath CV33 9TW 01926 691105 [email protected]

Becki Cameron Helen Townsend Liz Dovey Anne Smith Manager Sylvia McKenzie Michelle Sutton Jacqui Waldron Ceri Durrant Gemma Blumberger Admin Support Aisha Jinks Early Years Family Workers Nurture Nursery Staff

Visit: Our new website www.parentingproject.org.uk We can now been found for the latest timetable of on facebook activities, news and useful information about our Centre www.facebook.com/pages/ and all the others in the Group lighthorne-heath-childrens- centre/767277346720682  Activities and sessions for you and your child under 5  Useful information and links to other organisations Please speak to one of the team if you are interested in volunteering  Parenting courses or becoming a parenting project  Family support in the home trustee. We also welcome any feedback about our services, so  A place to meet others, take part and have fun please share your thoughts with us!

Tel: 01926 691105 This Surestart Children’s Centre is managed by Email: [email protected] ‘The Parenting Project’; a local charity working within the Stratford District for families with Facebook: www/facebook/parenting project children from 0-19. For more information call 01789 264741 What is a Children’s More about what we offer... Centre? Health Visitors 0-5 yrs clinic and Baby Play Sure Start Children’s Centres are places where you and your family other Health services This group suitable for babies under 1, can access a range of services under one roof. All of the services are The Health Visitors and Children’s runs every Friday for anyone to drop in, Centre staff run baby clinics at designed to support families with children under five with a purpose to explore sensory play, chat to other Lighthorne Heath, and help you manage the challenges of family life and to provide parents and join in with some singing at Temple Herdewyke for weighing opportunities for your child to develop and thrive. the end. It’s a great place to make your baby, a chance to ask ques- new friends and share in the joys and tions, and stay for a chat with other challenges of baby’s first year! Lighthorne Heath & District Children’s Centre is open to families living in parents. the Lighthorne Heath & District community. Our community is defined Stay and Play as the streets and postcodes that are part of our local ’reach area’ as Baby massage A weekly play session run at LHCC on designated by Warwickshire County Council. This area includes Our baby massage courses run for a Tuesday morning, open to all fami- Lighthorne Heath and the surrounding villages including Farnborough, four weeks, all through the year, for lies with children of any age under 5. Fenny Compton, , Kineton, Ladbroke, Northend, Priors Marston, babies from 6 weeks old. It is a There’s always lots to play with a baby Temple Herdewyke, Tysoe etc. wonderful opportunity to learn an area, messy/craft activities and finish- easy massage routine that will es with snack time and singing. Families living beyond our community area are very welcome to soothe your baby and help you to attend our ‘open’ sessions. We work very closely with the other Parent- create a close bond. Stay & Play sessions are also held at ing Project Children’s Centres in Stratford, , Studley, Clopton, Kineton on Monday mornings andTemple Herdewyke on Wednes- , & Shipston to ensure that all families receive Chatter matters the support they require and have access to services that are most We will be running chatter matters Speech and language support helpful to them. We also work in partnership with Health Visitors, speech courses from September—Look out Liz, our speech and language cham- & language and physiotherapists, social care teams including counsel- for more information. The course includes lots of fun with songs, pion, is available to discuss any con- lors, and many others to bring you consistent and up to date infor- rhymes, instruments, scarves, treas- cerns or questions about your child’s mation and support. ure baskets and other activities. The talking. Cate Cooke (Speech & Lan- sessions really help to encourage guage Therapist) holds drop in ses- Lighthorne Heath Nurture Nursery your child’s communication skills, sions on a regular basis. and gives you ideas to carry on at LHCC runs a nurture nursery for children from the age home . Additional Drop In Sessions of two until the term after their third birthday who are CAB entitled to funded childcare. The experienced, qualified staff provide Domestic Violence individualised care in an environment tailed to the needs of very young Triple P Courses PCAN children. For more information contact us on: 01926 691105. Our family workers are trained to deliver Well-being Triple P courses for groups of parents and on a 1-1 basis. They give you easy to use strategies to encourage positive behav- Please see our iour and support strong relationships. current timetable for special sessions or one offs that we occasionally run