Where: At your local Home-Start
Commitment required: An hour a week
Training provided: Yes

About becoming a Home-Start hour volunteer:

The Home-Start Hour was created so volunteers can share your skills for an hour to make a difference to your local community. 

The Home-Start Hour gives you the freedom to share a skill, try out volunteering and make connections that could blossom.

To give you some inspiration before your first chat with your local team here are some ways Local Home-Starts said a volunteer could support them for an hour. 

Watch the video below where Fiona, our Volunteering Development Manager, talks to you about how you could use your hour

Requirements of the role:

Our online volunteers are required to:

• Commit to our training programme
• Undergo referencing and an enhanced criminal records check
• Understand that support provided to families is completely confidential
• Have a non-judgemental attitude and understand about the pressures of bringing up a family

Training provided:

All volunteers are required to complete training to prepare them for their volunteer role.

The training provides an opportunity for you to ask questions and understand the importance of your role, whilst also giving staff the time to get to know you, so that they can match you with the right family.

Our training is designed by family practitioners and experts in the industry and covers essential information including:

• The role of a Home-Start volunteer
• Values, attitudes and inclusivity
• Confidentiality
• Listening and communication
• Meeting the needs of families and children
• Safeguarding

Support provided:

We invest in our volunteers from day one, ensuring they are supported by a paid member of staff throughout their time volunteering with us through:

• regular support and supervision sessions
• paid expenses during training and while you support a family
• additional training
• formal qualifications (available at some local Home-Starts)

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