Home-Start Elmbridge

Home-Start is a family support charity- its ethos is to help parents build better lives and better futures for their children. It does this by recruiting and training local parent volunteers to offer practical and emotional support to families in their own homes. Families who are struggling to cope for a variety of reasons, from poverty and isolation through to domestic violence and poor mental health.

Home-Start helps families with young children deal with whatever life throws at them. They support parents as they learn to cope, improve their confidence, and build better lives for their children.

Home-Start wants to see a society in which every parent has the support they need to give their children the best possible start in life. The criteria for our support is:

• The family has a child under five
• They live in the Borough of Elmbridge or in Leatherhead
• The family has a need and would be helped by weekly volunteer support
• The family has given consent for referral (if referred by an outside agency).