Home-Start North Somerset is a local charity which has provided invaluable support and friendship to families in the North Somerset area since 2005 and has achieved positive outcomes for hundreds of families in the community.
At the heart of our work is our home-visiting service. Home-Start North Somerset recruits and trains volunteers from all across North Somerset. We then carefully match the volunteer with a family in need of support. Volunteers are from all walks of life, each one with parenting experience and a little free time available each week to help provide emotional and practical help to local families. Volunteers visit families in their own home for two or three hours once a week. Support is confidential, flexible and totally responsive to the family’s needs.
As well as our home-visiting service, we offer a range of groups to support parents, and help to connect families with other support services. Details of our groups can be found in the ‘Getting Support’ menu.
We are an early years support charity and in order to receive help from us you must have at least one child under 5 in the family.
Home-Start North Somerset 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 through a local Family Services Specialist and a stringent Quality Assurance review process ensures the scheme operates effectively.
The charity is run by a Management Committee and there are 5 part-time members of staff. A team of around 40 trained volunteers visit families at home and help support around 60 families per year.
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Confidentiality Policy March 2023
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