1979    Toyhouse started through Adult Education Home Visiting.

1984    Grant to set up Baby Bounce & the Mobile Toy Library for Groups

1984    Revenue grant aid meant Toyhouse could employ 3 part time workers

1986    London Borough of Tower Hamlets took over funding

1990    Funding enabled Toyhouse to employ 2 part time Toy Library Support Workers

1990    Annual Toy Library Training Course first held

1990    Docklands Childminders Mobile Toy Library started

1990    Co-ordinator post began

1991    Bilingual Support Worker started

1991    First annual mini Toy Day held

1993    Mobile service renamed Home Visiting Mobile Toy Library

1993    First Leisure Library set up

1994    Toyhouse becomes a Company Limited by Guarantee

1995    “Volunteering in Toyhouse Libraries” first of two x 3 year projects started

1996    Toyhouse Special Soft Play started

1998    Toy Purchasing Group established

1999    Part time peripatetic bilingual Family Support Toy Librarian project set up.

1999    Expansion of the Home Visiting Mobile Toy Library service

2000    Service Level Agreement with Tower Hamlets

2001    Start of Surestart work to extend the support to young families

2001    Establishment of the Toyhouse Strategy Group (Manager + senior staff) in response to the growth of the Association.

2002    Start of Family Play Project on a Saturday am & Teenage Parents Soft Play.

2002    Development of family support work via 5 Surestart programmes

            Launch of Baby Clinic Play & Information sessions

2003                Services delivered through all 7 Surestart Local Programmes

            Development of work with Poplar Partnership Education Action Zone

            Launch of Mobile Plus service on Saturday mornings to families with a primary aged child with additional needs.

            Launched the Toyhouse Volunteers Programme

2004    Service to Registered Child Minder re-instated.

Work with BGVPHA to be part of a new social housing and community build.

Toyhouse services clearly linked to Government Policy “Every Child Matters”

2005      Agreed Architectural plans to fit out a new central Borough building, and raised the money to pay for it.

2006    Signed 15 year lease on 92, St Paul’s Way, E3

            Surestart Local Programmes ended and Children’s Centres were established. Secured 2 contracts to deliver services via TH Children’s Centres, in Toy Libraries & Clinics.

2007    Relocated to The Toyhouse Centre, 92, St Paul’s Way, E3.4AL

2008     Secured contract to deliver Play & Information sessions in clinics under TH Children's Centres.

2008  Secured contract to deliver Active Play & Healthy Eating Project under Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust.