About Home-Start Southport & Formby
| Annie Ives and Julie Cheetham look after a
team of volunteers providing this much-needed support and
befriending service to families with at least one child under the
age of five. Our volunteers are people from a wide variety of back-grounds and vary in age but all are either parents or have parenting experience. They are carefully selected for their friendliness and understanding, and appropriately approved and all attend a course of preparation before being linked with families. Each volunteer is asked to visit a family once a week for a couple of hours. In addition to home visiting there is a Family Group where parents enjoy some "me time" taking part in sessions such as Parenting Programmes, Healthy Eating and Art and Craft activities while the children are playing in a creche. Katie Smith, our Play Leader, organises activities for the children and co-ordinates these sessions with some of our volunteers who help out on a rota basis. We have an Entertainments Committee which is run by several of our volunteers. They organise various fund raising events throughout the year. We are managed by a Trustee Board of representatives from local statutory and voluntary agencies, representatives of the volunteers, and independent members. Dealing with the administration of the office is Julie Mullen and her assistant Dawn Whalley. Julie and Dawn also help out at the Family Group. 46 volunteers supported 108 families last year. Home-Start Southport & Formby is an independent registered incorporated charity-charity no. 1108802 |
The Team
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