The Dad La Soul Sessions: (Playdate) Hove

This isn’t soft play. This isn’t cheap childcare with bad coffee in a draughty old venue.This is Dad La Soul.

For the last nine years, we’ve been running award-winning, kick-ass playdates for dads and kids. Over 12,000 dads and families have come through our doors.

They keep coming back because this works.

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🗓 Saturday 14th March 2026

🕙 10AM-12PM

📍Platform, Hove Town Hall, Church Road, Hove, BN3 2AF

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What this actually is:

A two-hour playdate in a fantastic venue for dads and kids who are bored of pretending soft play is actually anything but a brightly coloured form of purgatory:

We build chaos and creativity where kids can play freely, and dads don’t feel invisible.

• Sometimes it’s Lego, dress-up, crafts and games
• Sometimes it’s DJ skills, filmmaking, robot building or Nerf Wars
• But it’s always cracking tunes, free drinks for kids, decent coffee for adults, great people and space to breathe

All activities included, no hidden costs.

And:

• No one is watching you parent
• It isn’t lukewarm coffee in a dusty church hall
• It isn’t awkward small talk or cheesy games
• It isn’t about pretending everything is fine
• Fully accessible venue
• Toddler-friendly and SEND-aware spaces

Important Info

✅ If money’s tight, we’ll sort it. No stress. No stigma, you can still come along

❌ No mums

❌ Chatham House rules: What you might hear at the event, please do not share

🎟 Booking. Tickets are mandatory and strictly limited. We sell out every month

These rules are what keep it safe and trusted.

👉 Reserve your place now.

Come for the chaos. Stay for the connection.

It doesn’t matter what your postcode is, your marital status, or the size of your bank balance. Dads and male-identifying carers, 16+, from all backgrounds and situations.

Whether you're married, single, co-parenting or still figuring it out, you are welcome.

Maybe you are a dad or male-identifying carer and:

• You’ve just had a baby and haven’t slept in weeks
• You’re surviving the toddler tornado
• You’re trying to reach your kid in a world of screens and stress

Maybe:

• Your child won’t stop talking like some weird American YouTuber
• You just need a laugh and some new mates
• You’re sick of getting called “a babysitter” whenever you take your kids out

In any case, we see you.

This is your space.

• 1 in 3 dads feel lonely most of the time
• 1 in 5 UK men have no close friends
• Suicide is still the #1 killer of men under 50

Dad La Soul exists to change that.

.“If someone’s going to Dad La Soul, it’s really, really unlikely I know the evidence is with me on this one – that there will be some sister or mother setting up yet another charity because their son or their brother has taken his life.”

— Noel McDermott, Psychotherapist

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