Best Start Family Hub — Oldham Library

  • District Leader: Karen Bennett
  • Senior Development Officer: Suzanne Hudson
  • Development Officers, Early Years: EvaD Ould-Okojie and Karen Jowitt

Opening hours

  • Monday to Thursday: 9am – 7pm
  • Friday: 9am – 5pm
  • Saturday: 9am – 5pm

Contact:

Oldham Library
Greaves Street
Oldham
OL1 1AL
Phone: 0161 770 8000
Email: libraries@oldham.gov.uk

Activities

Advice and Information

Baby Play and Weigh: A free-to-access play session for babies and children aged 0–12 months (or not walking) on Thursday afternoons, 12–2pm, at Oldham Children’s Library. The play session runs alongside a weighing clinic, where you can have your baby weighed and checked. You can also seek advice about any and all aspects of feeding, nursing, and caring for babies and pre-school children from our team and peer supporters from Home-Start HOST.

You don’t need to book: you can just drop in. If you want your baby to be weighed, please arrive before 1.45pm.

Speak English group: Drop-in, free to join conversation classes on Mondays and Fridays at Oldham Library, 10–11.30am.

You are also welcome to contact:
Family Information Service
Health Visiting Team

Getting here

Cultural Quarter
Greaves Street
Oldham
OL1 1AL

Access and Parking

  • Wheelchair access and lifts to the upper floor
  • Induction hearing loops at reception desks and in the performance space
  • 2 disabled parking spaces on Greaves Street (next to the library)
  • Southgate Street car park (access to the library across Southgate Street)
  • Pay and display car parks close to the library
  • Free on-street parking after 6pm