About Orchard Children's Centre

Tring is a small market town in the County of Hertfordshire. It is 30 miles North West of London. Tring lies at the extreme western edge of Hertfordshire and borders both Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.

Tring High Street is a hive of activity with shops and many small businesses. The Charter market is held on Fridays in Tring market place and there is also a farmers market on alternate Saturdays. Tring is a fair-trade town and also a Transition town.

Orchard Children's Centre will be designated as a Sure Start Children's Centre in October 2009. The Centre's Lead Agency is Dundale Primary School and the centre is located on the entrance to the Infant School on Silk Mill Way.

The Centre offers services and support to all children and their families aged 0-5 years in Tring and the surrounding villages. Please feel free to contact us with any queries you may have about what is available locally.

We are very lucky to have a new building which has a large entrance area packed with information and leaflets, there is also a room that can be used for groups and has the facility to be made into two smaller rooms if needed.

The Centre works closely with the Extended Schools Consortium, which works with children and their families aged 5-19. The local consortium is based at Tring Community Centre. To find out more about parenting courses or extended schools initiatives contact:
Co-ordinator: Sue Atherton
Tel: 07743 634830
Email: sue.atherton@groveroad.herts.sch.uk
Support Worker: Samantha Lindars
Tel: 07598 329823
Email: coordinator.tring@hertsextendedschools.org.uk
Web: www.hertsextendedschools.org.uk/tring

Information and support for families in Hertfordshire can be found at:
Web: www.hertsdirect.org.uk/fsd

I would love to hear your views about services you would like. Please feel free to email me, give Orchard Children's Centre a call or pop in with your ideas or requests.

What is a Children's Centre?

Children's Centre's provide information and services for families with young children aged 0-5 years, and aims to build on good existing services rather than starting new ones where it's not necessary.

By visiting Orchard Children's Centre, you will receive support and help in finding childcare, family support, health services and even employment advice. If you are looking for day care as a working parent, the centre will be able to give you information about the options for you and your child.

Orchard Children's Centre is:

An agency to support families, groups and organizations for under 5's.
The aim is to help you give your children the very best start in life.
It can be hard to know what services are available or what they actually offer, the Children's Centre will help with this and be a one-stop shop to find out what is about.
It will also provide some services that are currently missing from your community. Finding out what you want and need will be vital to developing the services that will be offered.
Support with training and links with Jobcentre Plus and health professionals will also be available.

To ensure the quality of services, all Children's Centres have to be designated by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). Orchard Children's Centre will be formally designated as a Sure Start Centre from October 2009.

If you have any suggestions about what you would like the Centre to offer, or comments on the services please get in touch.

Other Children's Centres in Dacorum

Grovehill, Woodhall Farm
Worldshapers Children's Centre
Lillian Andreasen, The Community Centre, Datchett Close, Woodhall Farm, HP2 5JT
Tel: 01442 269804.
Email: lillian@worldshapers.org.uk
Web: www.worldshapers.org.uk

Hemel Hempstead Central
Heath Lane Children's Centre
Anita Harris, Heath Lane, HP1 1TT
Tel: 01442 255418
Email: manager.heathlane@hertschildrenscentres.org.uk
Web: www.hertschildrenscentres.org.uk/heathlane

Hemel Hempstead Central
Windmill Children's Centre
Caroline Keeler c/o Broadfield Primary School, Windmill Road, Hemel Hempstead HP2 4BX
Tel: 01442 426303, 07909 555299
Email: manager.windmill@hertschildrenscentres.org.uk
Web: www.hertschildrenscentres.org.uk/windmill

Kings Langley, Nash Mills, Bedmond
Three Villages Children's Centre
Angela Welsh, Conniston Road, Kings Langley, WD4 8DF
Tel: 01923 481670, 07811 166 378
Email:threevillages@pre-school.org.uk
Web: www.pre-school.org.uk/hertfordshire

Leverstock Green and Bennetts End
Green Lane Children's Centre
Joanna Moss, Green Lane, Leverstock Green, HP2 4SA
Tel: 01442 265410, 07938 805 028
manager.greenlane@hertschildrenscentres.org.uk.

Warners End, Chaulden and Gadebridge
Galley Hill Children's Centre
Terri Burfield
Tel: 0750 722 7418
Email: manager.galleyhill@hertschildrenscentres.org.uk.

Bovingdon, Chipperfield - Builidings coming soon!
The Lanes Children's Centre
Zoe Hier
Email: zoehier@pre-school.org.uk

Berkhampsted are getting two new Children's Centres soon. There are two managers:
Ben Sladden
Email: ben.sladden@berkhamstedchildrenscentre.org
Tel: 01442 384144
Lillian Andreasen
Tel: 01442 269804
Email: lillian@worldshapers.org.uk

For more information go to www.hertschildrenscentres.org.uk.