Our Services

Millmead Children's Centre provides services for children and their families through developing Service Wings.  On this page you can find details of all our services.   

Visit our Activities page to see the latest timetable of events.

Children's Centre
The children's centre provides services in conjunction with a number of partners. These include:

• Millmead Mini Movers
• Y.A.P.S (Tiny Toes)
• Book and Toy Library
• One Step Ahead Behaviour Management
• Baby Group and Little Explorers
• Adult Education Programme and ICT Suite
• Accelerated Baby Communication
• Stay and Play Group
• Smoking Cessation
• Baby Days
• Boobie Doo's Breastfeeding Support Group (not running at present)
• Windmill Allotment Group
• Your Views Count (Community Focus Group) 
• Health Visiting Service
• Outpatient Paediatric Services
• Midwifery Services
• Young Persons' Group
• Bonsai Sensory room

Happy Days Cafe
The Happy Days Cafe is the hub of the Children's Centre. It is a warm, welcoming and safe space for all residents, parents and children. It provides a wide range of healthy, freshly cooked, wholesome foods at affordable prices. It has an internet cafe, a library service and play bus to entertain all members of the family. It is a popular focal point for many groups, including the Art Group, Peer Breastfeeding Support, Allotment Project, Community Action Group, Mini Movers and the Toddler Group, and is the home of the Millmead Young Persons' Group and Healthy Eating Workshops.

Meadow Nursery
The nursery provides a high quality service for young children between birth and five years of age. It is open from 8.00am to 6.00pm for 49 weeks of every year. It is run in three separate rooms, two of which are interconnected, so that all children have opportunities to mix with others in different age groups during the day. There is a dedicated baby unit which can cater for nine infants. There are two outdoor play areas - a courtyard designed especially for the younger children, and another to provide a range of fun and activities for older children. Children benefit from a range of activities such as story time, challenge, IT, construction play, creative play, water and sand play, obstacle courses and role play areas.

Opening Hours and Room Booking
For information regarding our opening hours, visit our Room booking page.

Rainbow Creche
This flexible service has been developed due to demand, and has continued to provide mobile creches for use by our partners, such as Thanet College, as well as companies in the private sector.

If you would like to find out about booking a creche contact us. 

Riverbank Out of School Club & Holiday Club
The out of school club has 24 places for children between 5 and 14 years, and currently the club is the only provision of this service for 11-13 years in Thanet. The club is open until 6.00pm each day during term time, and between 8.00am and 6.00pm during the school holidays. The club focuses on the promotion of health, and it recently received an award for its fourth 'Walking Bus' from local schools. The club provides healthy meals and snacks, with a relaxed and fun approach to activities.

Windmill Community Allotment Project
The Windmill Community Allotment Project (WCAP) is situated just 400m from the main centre, and offers training, work placement opportunities and a wide range of activities for parents and children from the community. With its partners in the NHS, the local council and other children's centres, WCAP works closely with many organisations to support the community and produce environmental products. One of these - 'Millmead Honey' - is the result of a bee-keeping project involving local young people. WCAP works to involve local people more closely with nature and its surroundings, and to enable them to experience the health benefits of working with nature.