Registered office: Home-Start UK

2 Salisbury Road, Leicester,  LEI 7QR Tel: 0116 233 9955 Fax: 0116 233 0232

Home-Start Deveron , 5 - 7 Strait Path, Banff, AB45 1AD

Registered Company No: SC280867  Registered Charity No: SC026191 Tel: 01261 819964  

E-mail info@homestartdeveron.org.uk  Wbesite: homestartdeveron.org.uk

 

A quick guide to Home-Start support

You could benefit from Home-Start's help if:

• You are feeling lonely or isolated in your community, have no family nearby and are struggling to make friends.
• You are finding it hard to cope if your child is ill or because you are ill.
• You have been hit hard by the death of a loved one.
• You are struggling with the emotional and physical demands of having a baby, young children, twins or triplets.
• You need help with practical things like budgeting or healthy eating.
• You'd like to get to know what is available for parents and children locally but don't know where to go or don't have the confidence to find out or join in.
• You'd like to find out about local further education courses but don't know where to start.

What happens next?

• After asking for our support you will meet with one of our local organisers who will carefully match you with one of our volunteers.
• Your volunteer will visit you at home for a couple of hours a week.
• You choose to have a Home-Start volunteer and you decide when Home-Start support should stop.
• You can also join in our family groups or social activities if you want to.

Many parents need help, friendship, advice or support during those early years when children are young.

There is no rule book for raising a family and sometimes it can seem overwhelming, particularly if your family is going through difficult times.

But if you can get the support you need when you need it, then day-to-day family life and your children's future can be so much brighter.

Do you ever feel like this?

Isolated in your community, with no family nearby and struggling to make friends.

Suffering with post-natal illness but finding it hard to talk to anyone about it.

Having a hard time coping with your child's illness.

Overwhelmed by the death of a loved one.

Struggling with the emotional and physical demands of having twins, triplets or more.

Struggling to cope with a disability or relationship problems.

Tired, unhappy, exhausted.

...or any similar problems.