Why Home-Start needs more Trustees

You can't build a house without foundations. So it doesn't matter how many home-visiting volunteers we have helping to improve family's day-to-day lives - without volunteer Trustees our Home-Start Schemes would lack management, direction and cohesion.

Every single one of our 337 Home-Start Schemes is independently governed by Trustees who oversee every aspect of their Scheme's work, from funding to recruitment to strategy and policy. At the moment there are 2,396 people giving their time to Home-Start as Trustees.

Many Trustees serve their local Home-Start for a considerable number of years. But there is always a turnover of Trustees as they move areas, or their own circumstances change and they are no longer able to volunteer their time.

Through the "We're Asking" campaign, Home-Start would like to recruit another 500 Trustees to increase the numbers of Trustees in Schemes across the whole of the UK.

Research by TimeBank and the Charities Commission for their Get on Board campaign to recruit more trustees for charities across the UK shows: over half of all charities claim to have problems recruiting new trustees, and only 15% of trustees are less than 40 years old and only 5% from a black, minority and ethnic background.



What skills Trustees need
What Trustees do for Home-Start
What Trustees gain from Home-Start
Trustees' stories
What our Trustees say
Frequently Asked Questions about Trusteeship
What our families say about Home-Start
Leaflets, postcards and posters
Useful web links
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