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Family Centres

Activities and services to support family life. 

YMCA East Surrey Family Centres offer a wide range of activities and services to support family life for parents and carers of children and young people aged 0-18 years (25 with additional needs and disabilities).

Free Drop-In Sessions

Looking for support and information for your family? Come along to our free drop-in sessions for families living in Reigate and Banstead. Our Family Support Coordinator, Anya, will be able to help with general advice, signposting, referrals, advocacy and connecting you with the right services. She can also help register you with your local family centre and any of the groups we run.
Drop-in sessions are held roughly once per month every 3 weeks at our Horley Family Centre and at Merstham Hub.
We also offer 30-minute, online advice sessions with Anya, our Family Support Coordinator. If you would like information, advice or to learn about other services, please book a session or email Anya.Destiney@ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk

Our Family Centres

We work in partnership with Welcare and HomeStart East Surrey to ensure that services and support are available across East Surrey and at the following Family Centres:

We work with you to build on your strengths as a family.

Once we have agreed to work together, you will be allocated a dedicated Family Support Worker who will support you to achieve the best outcomes for you.

This could be on a 1:1 basis to support the needs of your family in the home and community. Once a family’s support needs are identified, there are a range of things we can do to make a positive difference:

  • Visit children at their schools and community
  • Visiting families in their homes or in the community – wherever work best for you
  • Working together with other partners to make sure you and your children are supported

We provide a range of parenting support activities through groups at our Family Centres and other community venues.

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What else do we offer?

  • One-to-one support for you and your family
  • Children’s behavioural development advice and support
  • Emotional wellbeing and mental health support for children, young people and parents
  • Help with accessing financial assistance such as benefits, services and grants
  • Further education and employment support advice
  • Support groups for parents with children with additional needs
  • Online parenting support workshops
  • Health and wellbeing support for all the family
  • Providing referrals to specialist services in the community including free and supported school holiday play and youth clubs
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