Roles available for volunteers at Home-Start Mid and West Suffolk
Home-Start Mid and West Suffolk are running training courses during September for new volunteers.
They are on the lookout for home visiting volunteers and family play group volunteers.
The organisation is part of the national charity Home-Start UK, with schemes in over 200 local communities. It recruits and trains volunteers to help families with young children under age of 11, either via home visiting or at family groups.
This support to families is crucial in helping them to cope, develop resilience and stay positive through perhaps the most challenging time in their life.
They may need support due to situations as diverse as isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness, disability or because they are just finding parenting a struggle.
It will be running training courses during September for home visiting volunteers supporting a family in their own home. The next training course starts September 22, in Thurston, and will run on Thursdays from 10am to 2pm for seven weeks.
Family play group volunteers next training course is on Monday, September, 13, 9.30am to 1.30pm, via Zoom.
The following roles are also available:
- Encouraging development of speech and language in the LENA project (full home visiting volunteer training would need to be completed as well as LENA project training);
- Assisting in the charity shop in Eye, either customer facing, behind the scenes or with data input, or with the team in the eBay selling hub in Stowmarket;
- Using professional skills as a trustee to help develop the organisation and ensure it is run to charity commission standards.
Anyone who feels they would enjoy any of thee roles and would like to find out more and register for training contact Alison Crane on 07936 913929 or email alison@homestartmidsuffolk.org.uk