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Home-Start

We have decided to raise the sum of £1000 by the end of October 2008 to be donated to Home-Start.

Our total to date (28/10/08) is £1288.12

One in four children in the UK has a difficult start in life because it’s families are under pressure, yet every child deserves the best possible start in life; to be loved, to play, to learn and to grow in confidence. When this happens in a happy, secure family, a child's health, schooling and life-prospects all improve. Home-Start believes that parents play the key role in ensuring that children have a happy and secure childhood, but even the most dedicated parents can face challenges that prevent them from doing all they wish for their children. Home-Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children, and widen their links with the community.

Home-Start's committed and caring volunteers, who are usually parents themselves, offer friendship and informal support to parents with young children under five during difficult times in their lives. They visit families at home and are friendly, approachable people who are relied on and trusted by parents to listen without being judgemental and to respect the needs of each individual family.

To Home-Start, every family is special, and we respond to each family's needs through a combination of home-visiting support, group work and social events.

Home-Start schemes are rooted in the communities they serve and managed locally. They are supported by the National Organisation, which offers direction, training, information and guidance to schemes, and ensures consistent and high-quality support for parents, wherever they are.

Home-Start volunteers, who are usually parents themselves or have had parenting experience, choose to share their time, friendship, parenting-skills and experience because they understand the demands and stresses involved in raising a young family. All volunteers are carefully selected, prepared and supported for their work with families.

 Home-Start Bury is a family-support charity which has run for the past eight years in Bury. Last year, we reached out to over 105 families including 210 children through home-visits, group support activities, parenting classes and nursery safety loan equipment to prevent accidents.

Home-Start supports families with twins, triplets, children with severe disabilities, and families in which the main carer is under 18 or a single parent or teenage mother, as well as helping those suffering from loneliness, post natal depression or bereavement. In other words, these are families facing difficulties!

For more information click:  http://www.home-start.org.uk/

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