Supporting Us
By supporting Home-Start you are helping struggling parents give their children a better start in life.
Family life can be hard and challenging for many parents. Loneliness, relationship breakdown, bereavement, physical and mental illness or even multiple births can have a profound effect on families. With your help, Home-Start can be there to help parents cope, to help them towards independence and a better future.
Home-Start depends heavily on donations from companies, charitable trusts and people like you to fund our work with parents and children. Everyone needs help at some time in their life...so go on, help us to make a difference to a child's life today.
Home-Start depends heavily on donations from companies, charitable trusts and people like you to fund our work with parents and children. Everyone needs help at some time in their life...so go on, help us to make a difference to a child's life today.
Making a donation
- Doing a charity challenge:
- see how Graeme Dawson and friends tried to break an unofficial golfing world record for Home-Start.
- see how one of our staff members ran the Great North Run
- read about Viv Birk's Peru trip: charity challenge diary
- Set up a Justgiving account like Viv Birk did for his bike ride to Peru
- Donate your loose change through Coinstar and Sainsbury's
- Buying an Easy Peasy Teas recipe book
- Raise money for us when you shop online
- Find out about celebration gifts
- Find out about memorial gifts
- Take part in Home-Start's Big Tea Party
- Buy Christmas cards to support our work
- How companies can help
- How employees can help
- How trusts can help

Home-Start raises self-confidence, improves social networks, reduces difficult behaviour on the part of the child and improves physical and mental health
"Every Child Matters"
Government Green Paper


So, the man from Mars coming here today would say: ‘Why as earthlings are you not investing every penny you can possibly afford into your most precious resource, which is your children and families?'
Professor Al Aynsley-Green
Children's Commissioner for England

