How Honey House started
About us
Drawing on careers in events, property and the arts and their lived motherhood experience, Daisy Hill and Corinne Smith have been building Honey House since 2024 as a direct response to the isolating yet unimaginative existing family and baby events category.
That desire for something better has been sharpened by direct feedback from hundreds of early years parents over the past two-plus years. It's given us a clear picture of where the market falls short - leisure experiences designed for children, or for adults, but rarely both together - and an understanding of how that gap is affecting parent and family mental health, and why it needs to change.
Honey House exists to create, curate and champion an alternative to the current leisure options available to parents and families in the UK.
Our approach is a product of our Parent Wellbeing work with the University of Brighton, our anthropological research into childrearing from the past and our on the ground experience with our Honey House parents.
Underpinned by thousand-year-old family-centric cultural practices and informed by modern authors like Hunt, Gather, Doucleff, Payne and Druckerman – we’ve found an ancient-inspired solution for today’s parenting challenges.
We’re helping parents feel calmer and more confident in their parenting.
Why work with us?
Emily
“Loads of wonderful, creative, simple crafts that my daughter (& I) absolutely loved sharing. A wonderful welcome and farewell and a really nice bunch of people just appreciating the opportunity to be with their small ones but not have to conjur up all the energy and ideas!”
Marie
“Believe me when I say every town needs a Honey House! They have saved my sanity in this crazy transition to parenthood. Their events are so welcoming and so chill, my little one loves it as much as I do and it’s rare these days to find something that’s genuinely enjoyable for children AND parents! I always leave feeling like I’ve had a giant hug.”
Fiona
“So pleased I found Honey House! It’s really refreshing to go to parent and baby events / meet ups that are as much about the parents as they are about the baby. Great place to build real connections with people who get it, in a relaxed, fun environment. Everyone is so welcoming!”
Elka
“I always leave feeling lighter than before and my little one is always on such a high too! Always a bonus to meet such lovely parents in the same boat too and everything feels so relaxed.”
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