Home-Start Campaigns
Details of recent, current and forthcoming campaigns running for Home-Start across the UK.
The Big Tea Party 2008
The
Big Tea Party is Home-Start's UK-wide fundraising campaign and has raised a grand total of
£284,000 since 2005. Many of Home-Start's 340 schemes in local communities hold Big Tea Parties, as well as hundreds of individual supporters, companies and community groups.
If you want to join in with the next Big Tea Party, find out more.
"We're Asking"
Home-Start, launched its "We're Asking" trustee recruitment campaign during National Volunteers Week 2006. The campaign is still running across the UK and aims to recruit more than 500 volunteers with business experience and specialist skills, to help manage Home-Start's 340 local schemes.The charity is running the campaign to help fill a trustee shortfall across the entire country after research showed that 11 million people said they would volunteer...... if only they were asked.
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Real Parents
Super Nannies not wanted - we needed real parents to volunteer.Home-Start linked up with TimeBank in March 2006 to appeal for parents to come forward to be home visiting volunteers for Home-Start. 1,400 people did just that and are now being trained or are supporting families in their local communities.
The Real Parents Campaign was a pilot scheme, concentrating on Birmingham and Norfolk. It is now finished, but new volunteers are still welcome at Home-Start's local schemes across the UK.
The campaign was supported by a host of experts such as Dr Miriam Stoppard, and clinical psychologist Oliver James, and by people from all walks of life: Olympic gold medallist Denise Lewis, and celebrity mums Natasha Hamilton and Ulrika Jonnson.
Ulrika said: "Being a parent is one of the toughest jobs in the world - I've certainly had times of doubt and despair when I didn't know which way to turn. But you do get through it and the experience you gain by being a mum or dad is a brilliant asset.
