Intro
Supporting families in Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale & Pennines
Every year Home-Start helps thousands of families in hundreds of local communities across the UK and many others based with the armed services abroad every year. Parent volunteers offer support and friendship to other parents through home visiting, via family and specialist groups and through social events. Volunteers are recruited, trained and supported by staff in local Home-Start schemes, which are guided and supported by the national organisation, Home-Start UK.
Home-Start works in partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations locally to help parents build better lives for their children.
Across the UK thousands of Home-Start volunteers visit families at home each week, supporting parents in situations as diverse as isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness, disability or those who are just finding parenting a struggle. They provide non-judgemental practical and emotional support and help build the family’s confidence and ability to cope. Home-Start runs more services and has more volunteers supporting more families than any other family support charity in the UK.