Bedford Borough Family Hubs are welcoming places where you and your family can go to enjoy fun-filled activities, meet people in your community and learn new skills. From coffee mornings and workshops, to storytelling, cooking, and gardening, there's something for all ages.
We are here for all families from the moment you are expecting a child until they turn 19 or, if they have special needs, until they turn 25. We have activities and support for all ages. If you want to meet other parents, want something fun to do with or just need some advice, we can help.
We have two Family Hub buildings: Queens Park on Marlborough Road and Pine Cones on Slade Walk.
Much more is on offer through our Best Start Bedford website and through our ability to connect families with a range of services and professionals across Bedford Borough.
We have a full timetable for 0-5 year olds and we are working hard to introduce activities for older children. A lot of our sessions are drop-in but you can also find bookable activities.
You can find regular updates on things to do, information and ideas to help families in the local area on our Family Hubs Facebook page and by signing up to receive our half-termly newsletter straight to your inbox.
Here is a list of activities and services running from the Family Hubs and Children’s Centres:
You can email us for more information on familyhubs@bedford.gov.uk or send us a message via our Family Hubs Facebook page and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
If you’d like to speak to someone please call our Children’s Centres on 0300 323 0245 (8.30am-4.30pm Monday-Friday) or the Family Information service on 0800 023 2057 (open Monday-Friday 9-4pm with a 24 hour answerphone service).
In the summer of 2023 we completed a local Needs Assessment to find out. This meant working with lots of local families and organisations through conversations, surveys and focus groups.
Download the Needs Assessment Executive Summary (PDF) to read more about what we found. We are using this information to help us shape the vision for Family Hubs and local family services moving forward.
Yes! We want our Family Hubs and Children’s Centres in Bedford Borough to be right for parents and their families and the only way we can make sure we are doing that is to have you involved.
There are few ways you can do this:
We are working with the bpha and Faith in Queens Park to run Café Connect – Queens Park is a community café at the Community Centre on 52 Marlborough Road, Queens Park, MK40 4LF.
The café is run by local volunteers offering home-cooked food to buy at a low price as well as free tea, coffee and biscuits. It happens every two weeks on Wednesdays, in term-time, from 12.15-2.15pm.
Local services join us regularly give information on the support available and to run activities for children and adults.
The café is running on the following dates in 2024:
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