Home-Start UK
 United Kingdom  |  Community/Family

To offer support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children in local communities throughout the UK and with British Forces in Germany and Cyprus.

Home-Start offers a unique service. We recruit and train volunteers who are usually parents themselves to visit families with at least one child under five, at home, and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support. We help to increase the confidence and independence of families by visiting them in their own homes to offer support, friendship and practical assistance, we reassure parents that their childcare problems are not unusual or unique. We encourage parents' strengths and emotional well-being for the ultimate benefit of their children and try to get the fun back into family life. When Home-Start was founded in 1973 no-one involved in this unique parent-to-parent support service imagined that one local Home-Start in Leicester would be so effective and so popular with families that it would expand to more than 300 within 30 years. It did and now Home-Start is the UK's leading family support charity and is expanding into even more areas of the UK.

Family support

Friendship

Advice

Volunteers

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