A message from Helen

Volunteer Recruitment & Training Manager

Home-Start offers a unique service. We recruit and train volunteers, who understand that family life can be challenging at times, to phone or visit families at home and offer them informal, friendly and confidential support. The families we phone or visit have at least one child under 12. We also support families in a range of groups throughout Suffolk.

To help give children the best possible start in life, Home-Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationship with their children and widen their links with the local community.

Volunteers may help families with isolation and loneliness, mental health or post- natal depression, money issues and budgeting, disability and illness, routines and behaviour or any other support needed. We cannot offer this without our team of volunteers. We are lucky to have support from volunteers from a range of backgrounds and experience.

Volunteering can offer amazing opportunities, including:

• Free training courses

• Experience in offering support, which is a real asset on CVs!

• Travel expenses

• Being part of our volunteer community

• Making a difference to families in Suffolk