About us
About Home-Start Flintshire
Home-Start Flintshire volunteers support families in a sensitive and flexible way. They share their time and friendship and work alongside parents, focusing on their strengths and offering families the opportunity to develop new relationships, ideas and skills. Supported parents are better able to engage in community life, to the benefit of themselves and their children.
We are suported by our umbrella organisation, Home-Start UK, on policy, training, information and personal support, enabling Home-Start Flintshire to respond to local needs. We are, however, an independent charity, responsible for all our own fundraising. We aim to help to reconnect and reintegrate families with their community. Children, parents and the wider community all benefit from Home-Start Flintshire’s work.
Helping families in Flintshire since 1995
Families supported
Volunteers
Children Supported
What we do
We provide support to families across the whole of Flintshire who have at least one child under the age of 11. Volunteers are recruited, trained and supported to support families offering a unique mix of emotional and practical help.
All parents need help at sometime, and parents ask for help from Home-Start for one or more of the following reasons:
- Feelings of isolation
- Experiencing effects of ill health and/or disability
- Difficulties in managing the household budget
- Struggling with emotional health/depression
- Difficulties in managing children's behaviour
- Bereavement
- Multiple birth
- Housing issues
- Stress associated with conflict in the family
Our Volunteers
Volunteers are carefully matched - linking the skills of each volunteer with the needs of the family. Our volunteers are friendly, approachable and give their spare time to provide encouragement, a listening ear and an extra pair of hands for a few hours once a week. We also provide support to families through our group offers. These include stay and play, learn and play and tumble and tales group sessions.
Reach the Family Reach the Child
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Areas we cover
Home-Start Flintshire provides a service to Mold, Connah’s Quay, Buckley, Flint and Holywell covering all of Flintshire.
“Home-Start raises self-confidence, improves social networks, reduces difficult behaviour on the part of the child and improves mental and physical health”
Resources for parents
we can help you regain confidence and be the parent you want to be. Find out more about some of the areas we can help with.
Support for parents
Being a parent has never been easy. It can be lonely, frustrating, heart breaking and over-whelming. All parents struggle at one time or another. You are not alone. Home-Start’s expert staff and trained volunteers work alongside families just like yours to give non-judgmental, compassionate and confidential support.
Family Voices
The help isn't you being incapable, it's a tool to be utilised to make the quality of life for you and your family better. Use it!
Emil
Anna
Anna was referred to us whilst pregnant with her third child. She is from the Congo and was separated from her older two children, who were unable to escape with her.
Marian
With two older children, Marian was pregnant when we met her. The family were living in unsuitable accommodation and Marian was experiencing mental ill-health and problems with her mobility.
We're here for parents when they need us the most
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