Find activites and groups for you and your pre-school age children.
We offer a wide range of free activities at our libraries suitable for under 5’s. These include our regular Baby Boogies, and a Baby Boogie just for dads, stories, play, art and singing and more.
Every family in Brighton & Hove can get a free Bookstart Baby Pack for each child, before they're 12 months old, to encourage them to read.
A Bookstart Baby Pack includes 2 board books and a rhyme sheet. It also has a booklet of tips and ideas for sharing books with young children.
You should receive your pack from your Health Visitor or Family Hub.
If you don't have it, or you’d like more information, send an email to familyhubs@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
You can visit the BookTrust website for more information about Bookstart packs, as well as other helpful resources for parents.
Our Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme provides free activities during the school Easter, summer, and winter holidays, for people who receive benefits-related free school meals.
Activities include sports, arts, music, personal development, and more.
Kids in Brighton is a resource and community for those living in, or visiting, Brighton & Hove and the surrounding area with kids.
They have directories specifically aimed at parents with children under 5 including:
The Early Childhood Project is a Brighton & Hove-based charity that helps develop knowledge and skills to challenge and combat prejudice, discrimination and injustice in the lives of young children.
They have a toy library and everyone is welcome to borrow toys, books and resources from them.