Home-Start St Helens
There for parents when they need us most, because childhood can't wait
About Us
Home-Start St Helens recruits and trains volunteers from St Helens, Merseyside. We then carefully match the volunteer with a family in need of support. Volunteers are from all walks of life, each and every one a parent or even grandparent, all with a little free time available each week to help provide emotional and practical help to local families. Support is confidential, flexible and totally responsive to the family’s needs.
Home-Start St Helens is a local charity which has provided invaluable support and friendship to families in the St Helens area since 1988 and has achieved positive outcomes for hundreds of families living in the community.
Home-Start St Helens is affiliated to the national organisation, Home-Start UK, but we are autonomous and responsible for our own management and securing our own funding. Home-Start UK provides advice and support and a stringent Quality Assurance review process ensures the scheme operates effectively.
We have 6 members of staff. A team of 42 trained volunteers visit families at home.
Management Committee
Home-Start St Helens is an independent charity run by a Management Committee made up of local professionals (e.g. but not limited to Health Visitors, Teachers, Social Workers),
Our trustees come from all walks of life, bringing their experience and individual skills to our scheme. The kind of skills that are in demand are business or personnel management, finance and fundraising, IT and communications. But you don’t need special qualifications to be a trustee – common sense, flexibility, time and an ability to work as part of a team, a willingness to learn, understanding the pressures facing parents today and a genuine interest in supporting parents in the local community are just as important to us. Please contact us to find out more.
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