Home-Start UK

Home-Start is one of the UK's leading family support charities working in local communities for the last 40 years.  Hundreds of local Home-Starts support thousands of families through a network of trained parent volunteers. 

Our  volunteers  offer emotional and practical support to families in their own homes. Support is confidential and non-judgemental, and Home-Start is there for any family that is struggling to cope. We support families for many reasons including; post natal depression, poverty, isolation, multiple births, illness & dissability and domestic abuse to name but a few. Our volunteers support families for however long is needed, or until the youngest child reaches five.

In Northern Ireland there are 22 local Home-Starts. Our 930 volunteers work with over 1,600 families, and almost 3,500 children.  

What Home-Start does is make fragile families strong again.

To find out more about the work of Home-Start please visit our website. www.home-start.org.uk

Home-Start in Northern Ireland has recently had a BBC Radio Ulster charity appeal. You can hear our appeal by clicking on the link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/community/aac/appeals/homestart.shtml