How trusts can help
Ever since Home-Start UK was established, charitable trusts and foundations, large and small, have played a crucial role in supporting our work and continue to do so today.
How trusts can help, and who to contact
Today, some of our most exciting projects are entirely funded by charitable trusts. In recent years, trusts have funded development worker posts in London, the Central Belt of Scotland, North East England and in Wales. Without this development funding, Home-Start could not grow into new areas and help families who otherwise would have no access to our support.
Grants made to Home-Start UK are vital in enabling us to achieve our aims, in particular:
- Ensuring the highest possible quality of service is offered to families consistently across the UK.
- Responding to demands from families and communities by developing new and existing schemes.
- Offering training, support and guidance to staff and volunteer Trustees.
If you prefer to fund in a particular geographical or subject area, it is quite possible that we will have a project in which you might be interested.
How trusts help support the development
of best practice
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life throughout the UK by funding charities that have the ideas and ability to achieve change for the better. This trust generously awarded a major three year grant in 2009 to Home-Start UK to establish an Innovation Fund to encourage, evaluate and replicate innovation at the local level.
"The Home-Start model has proven success in enabling thousands of families to better cope with the problems they face, and improving life chances for children. The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is keen to support the development of new ideas and practices, and we are delighted to be supporting the establishment of an Innovation Fund which matches this interest well. We hope the Fund will enable local Home-Starts to trial new approaches and ways of working, share learning with others and thereby expand the boundaries of what is possible and achievable within Home Start schemes".
Sharon Shea, Grants Manager
If you are a Trustee or Trust Fund Manager, please contact:-
Diane Kaczmar, Trust Fundraising Manager
dkaczmar@home-start.org.uk
0116 258 7923.
Or you can write to us at:
Home-Start UK
The Home-Start Centre
8 - 10 West Walk
Leicester
LE1 7NA
We would also be happy to arrange for you to visit us.
