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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£286.3K
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Spending
£272.2K
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from our purposes include; improved health outcomes and improved uptake of health appointments. happier, safer children and happier safer homes. As a result fewer children suffer cruelty or maltreatment. parents and children feel less marginalised. Families make better use of local services and are less isolated and
have wider horizons. Families are better able to cope with their needs. families develop improved coping strategies and parents become more confident through increased education in childcare standards. All of these benefits are demonstrated by the completion of review visit forms which track an individual family's “journey of change”. Also feedback questionnaires are completed by families and referrers at the close of support. The benefits of all our purposes are also demonstrated by regular evaluation of the services by Health and Social Care Trusts, funders and monitoring and evaluation of the service. The purposes do not give rise to any harm. The beneficiaries of our purposes are families who are experiencing difficulties or suffering stress and who have at least one child under 5 years of age and live in the Area of Benefit. A private benefit to volunteers may arise from our mandatory training in values and attitudes, safeguarding children, confidentiality etc. Through the training volunteers gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. A second private benefit to Trustees may arise from our programme of training in good governance, finance etc. Through the training trustees gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. These private benefits are relevant to all our purposes
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Home-Start provides informal, friendly family support. Volunteers offer regular support, friendship and practical help to young families under stress in their own homes. Home-Start volunteer visits families regularly, in their own home, usually once a week for between two and four hours. Many Home-Starts across the country run groups for families
in their area. These provide a space for parents to gather, meet and talk, and create their own local support network. Home-Start groups are mostly parent and toddler groups. But there are also more targeted groups to meet the needs of people in local communities. These include: • breast feeding support • post natal illness groups for mothers and for fathers • dad's groups • help for asylum seekers and refugees • teenage parents' support groups • and many others Families who do not want to accept the support of a home visiting volunteer may come to one of our groups. After a while there, building their trust in the way we work, they feel able to ask for more personal support at home. Very isolated parents who don't have the confidence to meet others, may well take the first steps to building links into their own communities after our home visiting volunteers take them to a Home-Start group.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Ethnic minorities
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Parents
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Sensory disabilities
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Victim support
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Counselling/support
- Education/training
- Playgroup/after schools
- Relief of poverty
- Research/evaluation
- Volunteer development
