The council has signed a deal with a local company that will see the opening of a new child friendly café in Battersea Park this summer.
The new café will be open seven days a week and offer snacks, drinks and meals, including special children’s portions, made freshly on the premises using locally sourced produce.
Diners will be able to eat both indoors and alfresco and there will be an outdoor play area for toddlers.
The café will be housed in the vacant play building next to the playground in Battersea Park and will be operated by the same company behind the refurbished café and mini-golf course that recently opened in Wandsworth Park.
Discussions are also continuing with leisure companies and voluntary groups for the provision of new attractions in the remaining part of the vacant play building that is not required for the new cafe. This could involve using it as a venue for exciting hobbies and pastimes like dance and drama classes, singing and music tuition, clown and circus trick workshops and others popular with young people.
Work is also nearing completion on a £117,000 scheme to provide young families in Tooting with a refurbished and modernised children’s centre.
The brighter and better equipped Triangle children’s centre on Tooting Common is due to reopen at the end of next month and will offer a full daily range of free children’s and family services including drop-in stay and play, health advice and parenting support.
This investment in the Triangle coincides with the start of work on a £400,000 new-look children’s centre in King George’s Park, which will offer parents a wealth of family–oriented services in a bigger and better facility in the heart of Wandsworth.
Named ‘West Hill in the Park’ the revamped centre will offer a daily full range of free children’s and family services including free drop-in stay and play services, health advice and parenting support.
Free stay and play sessions are also offered at the borough’s network of 14 children’s centres. Similar sessions are also available at various playgroups and children’s centres run by Wandsworth’s voluntary sector providers.
Stay and play sessions for toddlers will also commence in the first week of April in the former Windmill one o’clock centre on Wandsworth Common and also at Coronation Gardens in Southfields.
Changes to the way that the borough’s former one o’clock centres operate mean that 1,800 free nursery places are being offered to two-year-olds from lower income families in Wandsworth as part of a £6m investment in their education and development.
The parents of these children can access 15 hours of free nursery care a week, giving them the opportunity to find employment or take up training or educational opportunities.
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