Home-Start Winchester & Districts
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Charity Name: Home-Start Winchester & Districts
Home-Start Winchester & Districts offers free support, friendship and practical help to parents with at least one child under the age of five, by means of home visits provided by trained volunteers. Our expertise is in providing non-judgemental practical and emotional support, which helps build the family’s ability to cope. Our home visit-based befriending service enables families to become more confident in general and able to access all relevant services, including Children’s Centres.
Our volunteers offer informal, friendly and confidential support for at least two hours a week. However support is not time-limited and we will stay with a family for as long as they need us and, because Home-Start volunteers go into the home as a friend and not as a professional, they do not appear as a threat. Our families come from a huge variety of backgrounds. Families may be struggling for many different reasons, such as loneliness, low self-esteem, depression, illness or disability of a parent or child. We recruit and train volunteers and match them to a family. Each family has different needs.