Paradise Park Children's Centre

The first ever under-fives setting to be awarded Quality in Play Award

Enjoy free activities with your little one

Paradise Park Children’s Centre

For more information on fun and free activities for families with children under 5 years old, please contact Bright Start and the Islington Family Information Service here

Paradise Park Children’s Centre is a haven for families with children under five. We aim to be a welcoming and warm space so that local families can find a place to spend time with their children, get information about services and play.

Our nursery provides great early education and operates an open door policy from the building to the garden, ensuring that children can play outside whenever they want whether it rains or shines, allowing them to feel freedom and make choices from the earliest opportunity. We offer forest school sessions and free play, we have fires, a massive sandpit and loads of water play. All the food is cooked from scratch on site thereby ensuring that children get access to all the elements they need to build healthy bodies and minds. For more information, visit our Paradise Park Children’s Centre nursery page.

History

Paradise Park Children’s Centre was built by Islington Play Association and Islington Council in 2005. The money was partly raised through IPA’s neighbourhood nursery in Arundel Square, which then transferred into the current Paradise Park site in December 2005. Some of our staff have been there from the very beginning and have been part of developing the amazing free play nursery with us.

Originally the building housed IPA’s nursery and the Hillmarton Sure Start offices and then the two were amalgamated under IPA as one children’s centre in 2006/7. Since then we have built the centre into a one stop shop for local families, encompassing health services like midwives and health visitors, family support, ESOL classes, healthy eating sessions and much more.

Paradise Park was the first ever under-fives setting to be awarded Quality in Play.

Find us

Address: Paradise Park Children’s Centre,
164 MacKenzie Road, London, N7 8SE
Tel: 020 7697 7341
Email: info@islingtonplay.org.uk

 

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Hire our space

We are not currently taking party bookings or private hire requests. We are sorry for any inconvenience or disappointment. We hope to resume later in 2023.

All our spaces make fantastic places to party. Paradise Park Children’s Centre is a perfect place for you little one to run free with their friends in our well designed and totally safe garden, the café area can be exclusively yours at the weekend to hold the best party of the year. This year we are introducing a range of options that you can choose from that will make the day even easier for you and even more fun for the kids. Sign up to our mailing list (below) to get news of this new service coming soon.

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Our Staff

Nursery Manager: Joy Abegunde

Meet all our other members of staff here!

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