Primary interest: Families & Parenting
Activity: Support
Primary beneficiaries: --
Area of activity: Reading-wide
Telephone: 0118 942 9518
Fax: 0118 942 9518
Email: hsreading@ic24.net Web site: www.home-start.org.uk
Home-Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children. The families are going through a difficult time such as post-natal depression, the birth of twins or triplets, disability, bereavement, illness or social isolation.
Home-Start recruits and trains volunteers who are usually parents themselves to visit families at home who have at least one child under five and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support.
Home-Start helps give children the best possible start in life. We support parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children and widen their links with the local community.
We also run two family groups for referred families on Friday mornings. One is on the Dee Estate and one is in Whitley. Playleaders organise activities for the children; parents can chat to friends or have support from a group organiser.
Contact details as above
Address as above
Mrs Ruth Fleming - Senior Organiser
hsreading@ic24.net
To oversee the operational management of Home-Start Reading including the recruitment and support of volunteers in their home visiting.
Ms Jackie Oversby - Organiser
hsreading@ic24.net
Home-Start Reading is a representative on Forum Voices
Homestart are looking to recruit a Family Groups Organiser for a six month fixed term contract from 1 April.
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