Parks & playgrounds · Barkingside
Barkingside Recreation Ground
A local recreation ground featuring a newly updated, fully fenced children's playground, open fields, multi-sports courts, and tarmac paths perfect for scooters.
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Things to do in Redbridge
A hand-picked guide to real days out with the kids — free and budget-friendly first, sorted by weather, age and what's nearby.
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Nature & outdoors · Woodford Green
Claybury Park
A large conservation park featuring ancient oak woodland, nature trails, a wildlife pond, a children's play area, and an outdoor gym. Excellent for nature spotting and family walks.
Sports & active · Barkingside
Fairlop Waters Boulder Park
The UK's largest outdoor bouldering park. Features 9 individual granite-style boulders of various shapes and difficulties, offering free climbing for beginners to experts.
Nature & outdoors · Barkingside
Fairlop Waters Country Park
A large lakeside country park offering outdoor walks, sailing, windsurfing, rowing, a large children's play area, and a bar and restaurant.
Animals & farms · Hainault
Foxburrows Farm
A free-to-enter community farm located inside Hainault Forest Country Park. Kids can see goats, sheep, donkeys, pigs, meerkats, and chickens up close.
Story time & libraries · Barkingside
Fullwell Cross Library Under-5s
Rhyme Time and Story Time sessions held weekly in the circular children's library, introducing children to library books and group activities.
Parks & playgrounds · Goodmayes
Goodmayes Park
Features multiple children's play areas, a lovely ornamental lake, tennis courts, sensory gardens, an outdoor gym, and basketball courts.
Nature & outdoors · Hainault
Hainault Forest Country Park
A massive forest and country park covering over 300 acres. Features adventure play areas, woodland walking trails, a boating lake, and a newly updated visitor centre with a café.
Story time & libraries · Ilford
Redbridge Central Library Rhyme Time
Free weekly library sessions for babies and toddlers. Filled with interactive singing, popular nursery rhymes, action songs, and simple stories.
Museums & culture · Ilford
Redbridge Museum
A local history museum inside the central library. Features interactive children's displays, historic room recreations, local history trails, and holiday workshops.
Parks & playgrounds · Seven Kings
Seven Kings Park
A popular local park featuring a newly updated adventure playground, tennis courts, a skate park, a multi-use games area, and open grassy fields for sports.
Museums & culture · Ilford
Valentines Mansion & Gardens
A beautiful 300-year-old historic house with period rooms, interactive games for kids, art studios, and beautiful formal gardens featuring a wishing well.
Parks & playgrounds · Ilford
Valentines Park
A beautiful historic park in Ilford featuring multiple children's playgrounds, ornamental lakes with rowboats, duck ponds, flower gardens, an outdoor gym, and a cozy café.
Nature & outdoors · Wanstead
Wanstead Park
A historic parkland forming part of Epping Forest. Offers beautiful lakes, ancient woodland trails for walking and cycling, a children's play area, and the Temple visitor centre.
Cinema · Ilford
Cineworld Ilford
Multi-screen cinema offering the "Cineworld Juniors" programme, showing popular family and kids' movies at discounted prices on weekend mornings.
Swimming & water play · Barkingside
Fairlop Waters Aqua Bounce
A seasonal, giant inflatable obstacle course floating on the lake. Kids and teenagers can jump, slide, bounce, and climb over various wet obstacles.
Swimming & water play · Barkingside
Fullwell Cross Swimming Pool
A leisure pool offering family swim sessions, dedicated swimming lessons for all ages, and seasonal inflatable pool parties.
Performing arts · Ilford
Kenneth More Theatre
A community theatre hosting professional family shows, puppet theatre, Christmas pantomimes, and local youth theatre drama classes.
Arts & crafts · South Woodford
Lollipops Pottery Painting Cafe
A friendly craft cafe where kids and parents can choose from a wide range of ceramic items (plates, mugs, animals) to paint, which are then glazed and fired.
Cinema · South Woodford
Odeon South Woodford
Historic Art Deco cinema showing family blockbusters, with special "Odeon Kids" screenings on weekends and school holidays at discounted family prices.
Indoor & soft play · Barkingside
Owls Play Centre
A large indoor soft play facility featuring multi-level play frames, giant slides, obstacle courses, and dedicated safe play zones for toddlers and babies.
Sports & active · Hainault
Redbridge Cycling Centre
A world-class cycling facility featuring a 2km purpose-built road circuit, BMX track, mountain bike trails, and a cycle hire shop with bikes for kids and teens.
Performing arts · South Woodford
Redbridge Drama Centre
A dedicated centre for youth drama, dance, and music education. Runs term-time classes for all ages, holiday theatre clubs, and regular family theatre performances.
Sports & active · Barkingside
Redbridge Sports & Leisure Centre
A major sports complex offering kids' sports courses, badminton, squash courts, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, gymnastics classes, and holiday activity camps.
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