Riverside Family Hub - For Every Family

Riverside Family Hub offers a welcoming space for families with babies, children, and young people from birth up to the age of 19 (or up to 25 for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities).

Our staff work closely with local services to provide you with information, advice, and guidance on a range of topics that families may need support with. We have activities and services for you and your family which can be accessed online or in person at the Family Hub.

Located just off Stanhope Road, within walking distance of Chichester Metro, come and meet our friendly team who will be happy to help.

Contact details

Garrick Street
South Shields
NE33 4JT

Mon-Fri 8.30am-4:30pm

0191 423 4971

Helen Mitchell: 0191 423 4971 / 07557 204 004

Riverside Family Hub

Upcoming Events

Learning With Play 0 – 4 Years

This group promotes quality time and learning through play, as well as an opportunity for you to access information and advice from professionals.

HENRY Healthy Family Right From The Start

Henry is an 8-week, programme to give babies and young children 0 to 5 years a good start. The programme helps the whole family to adopt a healthier lifestyle, creating more opportunities to play with your children, and helps parents to support their children’s health and social development. HENRY workshops include understanding behaviour, looking after

Early Words Together (3 – 4 years)

A 6-week programme to help families to support their child’s communication and development. Receive free books and spend quality time with your child.

KalmaBaby Yoga (Booking required)

We have teamed up with KalmaBaby South Tyneside to bring you a course of KalmaBaby Yoga sessions. Cost: £7

HENRY Preparing for Parenthood (Antenatal)

A 6-week programme to help expectant parents develop a healthy lifestyle for themselves and their baby whilst preparing for birth and caring for a new baby.

Little explorers

Little Explorers is a 6-week programme for toddlers led by Early Years Practitioners who will provide you with guidance and support to use in your own home. The programme focuses on communication, health and wellbeing, safety, development milestones and leaning through play.

Baby Explorers

For ages conception to mobile – a programme of 6 sessions. Focus is on bonding and attachment, communication, health and wellbeing, safety, development milestones and learning through play. Booking essential – please contact the family hub directly.

HENRY Understanding Behaviours

90-minute workshop The workshop gives opportunities to share experiences within a small group with other parents and carers, find new ways of reducing stress and gain new ideas to manage daily family life to get your little ones off to a great start.

Next on 16 Oct 2024 09:30am

Weigh Baby Clinic – Appointment only

A weekly clinic to get your child weighed, with advice and support from a Health Visitor. Appointment only by calling 0191 283 2677.

Next on 16 Oct 2024 09:30am

Little Hearoes

A pre-school group for deaf babies and young children which gives them the opportunity to play and learn with other deaf children, to develop early communication, listening and social skills through songs and play as well as encouraging curiosity through a wide range of creative and explorative activities. Parents and carers will have the opportunity

Next on 16 Oct 2024 09:30am

Learning With Play 0 to 4 Years

A group for children aged 0 to 4 years that promotes quality time for parents / carers and their young children.

Next on 16 Oct 2024 09:30am

Learning With Play 0 to 1 Year

A play session for children from birth to 1 year that promotes quality time for parents / carers and their young children.

Next on 16 Oct 2024 10:00am

Learning With Play SEND

Learning with Play (SEND) is a group for families with children under 5 years with an additional need or waiting for assessment and is led by early years practitioners.

Next on 16 Oct 2024 11:00am

Breastfeeding Support Group

A group for antenatal and postnatal women who would like support around breastfeeding, with support from professionals.

Next on 16 Oct 2024 01:15pm

NICU Stars

NICU Stars are babies who have been discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, have additional medical needs and reside in South Tyneside. Referral only.

Next on 16 Oct 2024 04:00pm

Science Buddies (5+)

Science Buddies provide Fun, 1 hour hands on sessions with new experiments each week! Gooey slime, exploding volcanoes, amazing rockets, potion magic and colourful bath bombs are just some of the fun experiments for everyone to use their investigative skills.

Next on 17 Oct 2024 09:30am

Triple P Babies

Triple P Baby is an evidence-based programme which consist of four sessions, followed up by four individualised sessions. Trained Early years Practitioners will support parents with the transition to parenthood and the first year with baby, offer the opportunity to find out about sensitive and responsive parenting and take part in activities to develop positive

Next on 17 Oct 2024 01:00pm

Bright Futures Young Parents Group (Referral Only)

A friendly group ran with Bright Futures for young mums aged 25 years or under.

Next on 17 Oct 2024 04:15pm

KalmaYoga (5+)

We have teamed up with KalmaBaby South Tyneside to bring you a course of KalmaBaby Yoga sessions. Make yoga and massage fun with serious developmental benefits. Yoga inspired stretches with child in order to promote healthy and deeper sleep patterns, suppleness in joints and muscles, co-ordination and gross motor skills. Who the sessions are for:

Next on 18 Oct 2024 01:30pm

GroBrain

GroBrain Baby course is for parents of babies pre-birth to 12 months and consists of four sessions, lasting around 2 hours each. The course focusses on bonding and brain development, and the vital part parents and carers play in ‘wiring up’ the connections in their baby’s brain in the first 1001 critical days of life.

Next on 21 Oct 2024 10:00am

Baby Massage

Learn different massage strokes, strengthen your bond with your baby and meet other parents / carers. Booking essential for this 3 or 4 week course.

Next on 21 Oct 2024 01:00pm

Solihull Parenting Group

A programme based on the Solihull approach that supports parents and carers to understand their child’s behaviour in the context of their development and child-parent relationship.

Next on 22 Oct 2024 10:00am

First Words Together

Enjoy exploring rhymes, stories and games to play with your child once a week for five weeks.

Next on 22 Oct 2024 04:00pm

Williby Rocs (5+)

Williby Rocs aim to increase community inclusion to develop and use local green space for play, connection, therapy and learning. We want to provide inspiring and engaging environmental education sessions to all. They aim to provide regular interactions with nature to help build confidence and self-belief, respect and wonder for the world around us and

Next on 13 Dec 2024 10:00am