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Home-Start Kirklees

Family Support Volunteer - Dewsbury/Batley and surrounding areas

  • Children/Young People/Families

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Location
  • Batley and Spen
  • Dewsbury and Mirfield

Days available to volunteer
  • Flexible

About the Organisation

Home-Start Kirklees is a volunteer led family support charity, offering volunteer support and practical help to families in Kirklees with pre-school children under the age of 5.

We provide a unique service – recruiting and training volunteers to support parents with young children at home who are struggling to cope.

We offer practical help and emotional support to any family in Kirklees who have at least one child under five and not yet in full time education. The families we help are struggling to cope because of a range of concerns such as ill-health, disability, poor mental health; debt or housing problems; family breakdown; loneliness. In addition, families may also have experienced a multiple birth, be new to the area, or be socially isolated.

Our trained volunteers offer weekly support to young families to help alleviate the challenges and pressures of family life, increasing the family’s capacity to cope, help reduce isolation and build confidence and resilience.

We are part of a national network of Home-Start schemes around the UK. Each scheme is run locally and is responsible for raising their own funding. Home-Start Kirklees has been operating since 1999, and we have helped over two thousand families since then.

Role Description

Location

  • Dewsbury
  • Batley
  • Ravensthorpe
  • Mirfield
  • Heckmondwike
  • Birstall
  • Gomersal

Role Description

Do you live in Dewsbury, Batley, Heckmondwike, or the surrounding areas? Would you like to help local families with young children? If so we are specifically looking for volunteers from your area.

If you are a parent, have experience of caring for children or understand the challenges of looking after children and being a parent then we’d love to hear from you. Or you could be considering a career working with children? Do you need a volunteer role that is flexible and fits around your current commitments, within your local area and fully supported with training and guidance?

Our training covers everything you need to know such as safeguarding, confidentiality, listening skills and why family’s might need support.

After attending our training programme (5 x 5-hour training sessions) you will be matched to support a family living in Kirklees who have children under 5. Together, with full support of Home-Start staff, we will work towards increasing family’s confidence and independence to overcome the challenges that they face.

You will become part of our team of amazing volunteers who support families in need of help, support or maybe just a listening ear. This can be via home visiting or in the community, telephone support or at one of our peer support groups.

*** We run regular volunteer training courses throughout the year at various locations ***

Contact us by submitting your details below and our Volunteer Coordinator will be in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Company/Organisation Name

Home-Start Kirklees

18 yrs and above

Special Requirements
  • Application form required
  • References required
  • DBS (criminal record check that the organisation will organise)

Deadline

03/03/2025

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