Home-Start East Highland
There for parents when they need us most, because childhood can't wait
About Us
Home-Start East Highland recruits and trains volunteers from around the East Highland region of Scotland; East, Mid and West Ross, Inverness and (shire), Badenoch and Lochaber. We then carefully match the volunteer with a family in need of support. Volunteers are from all walks of life, each and every one a parent or even grandparent, all with a little free time available each week to help provide emotional and practical help to local families. Support is confidential, flexible and totally responsive to the family’s needs.
Home-Start East Highland is a local charity which has provided invaluable support and friendship to families in the East Highland area since 1988 and has achieved positive outcomes for hundreds of families living in the community.
Home-Start East Highland is affiliated to the national organisation, Home-Start UK, but we are autonomous and responsible for our own management and securing our own funding. Home-Start UK provides advice and support through a local Family Services Specialist and a stringent Quality Assurance review process ensures the scheme operates effectively.
We have 14 members of staff. A team of 35 trained volunteers visit families at home and help support parents at the Family Groups.
Management Committee
Home-Start East Highland is an independent charity run by a Management Committee made up of local professionals (e.g. but not limited to Health Visitors, Teachers, Social Workers),
Our trustees come from all walks of life, bringing their experience and individual skills to our scheme. The kind of skills that are in demand are business or personnel management, finance and fundraising, IT and communications. But you don’t need special qualifications to be a trustee – common sense, flexibility, time and an ability to work as part of a team, a willingness to learn, understanding the pressures facing parents today and a genuine interest in supporting parents in the local community are just as important to us. Please contact us to find out more.
Home-Start East Highlands Impact Report 2020/21
You can download or view online the Home-Start East Highland Impact report for the period 2020-21. A new one will be out shortly for 2021/22. Click on the button below to view the document.
Next: Getting Support