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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£64.8K
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Spending
£75.5K
Public benefits
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 can be demonstrated by the completion of review visit forms which track an individual family's journey of change. Also feedback questionnaires are are completed by families and referrers at 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 the 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 trains volunteers who help families facing isolation, the effects of post-natal illness, disability or mental health issues, bereavement, multiple births, poverty or financial difficulties or a whole range of other challenges. After meeting with the family to discuss their specific needs, Home-Start will match the family to a volunteer.
The help we give each family is unique and depends entirely on their circumstances, requirements and what they want help with. We also run parent and child support groups which include accredited parenting programmes. These are delivered in a relaxed, informal way to encourage parents to meet, socialise and support each other.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- 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
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Ethnic minorities
- Learning disabilities
- Mental health
- Parents
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Travellers
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Disability
- Education/training
- Medical/health/sickness
- Relief of poverty
- Volunteer development
- Welfare/benevolent
