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+44 20 8698 7433
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41 Rushey Green, London, United Kingdom, SE6 4AS
Catford, Ladywell
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640 ftRosenthal Road
700 ftGeorge Lane Lewisham High St
760 ftGeorge Lane
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Specialties
The aim of the Toy Library, is the education of children within the London Borough of Lewisham by the provision of educational and stimulating toys and play equipment.
Members are able to borrow toys (up to 5 at any one visit) and keep them for up to 4 weeks. The Toy Library caters for children from 0 up to the age of 8.
Tables and chairs for Parties available.
Ofsted friendly toys like positive awareness dolls, dolls with different ethnicities, positive awareness jigsaws, multicultural dressing up clothes and multicultural food available.
We also work together with Kaleidoscope to cater for children on the special needs spectrum. There are toys for vision impared children, children on the authistic spectrum and other special needs. Due to a generous grant by Lewisham Council We also were able to purchase BagBooks which are mutlisensory stories that are very good for children on the authistic spectrum, vision impared children and children who’s first language is not English.
History
Established in 1972.
Lewisham Toy Library was set up to support Bunbury Childminders in 1972. Later, the first session for parents and carers was introduced. Over the years, we did outreach for Bunbury Childminding Groups were we visited one group per week to supply them with a choice of toys. The Toy Library holds nearly 2000 different toys and the outreach work was very limited to what fitted in a car and also very time consuming. It was stopped in 2008. Childminders now come to the Toy Library.
We also had a Satelite Toy Library in Deptford for 2 years around 2006 – 2008.
We used to run Stay and Play Sessions but because of space issues, we don’t do this anymore. There are plenty of very good Playgroups in Lewisham anyway.
The Toy Library was and is run by a very strong and supportive Management Committee.
Meet the Manager
Karin S.
Manager
I joined Lewisham Toy Library in 2004 after I had a break to bring my two children up. I am originally from Germany and we don’t have Toy Libraries in Germany.
