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.

Home-Start Kirklees are recruiting a new Treasurer

Would you like to help a local charity that supports families with young children?

Would you like to work with likeminded people and be our new Treasurer and a Trustee for Home-Start Kirklees?

Our current Treasurer has taken up new employment and no longer has the time to support us.  We are therefore seeking to appoint a Treasurer.  As a Treasurer, you will make a positive difference to the lives of children and parents. The Treasurer is also a Trustee and shares responsibility for ensuring Home-Start Kirklees is working effectively and within charity law.

We are seeking a qualified and experienced accountant (CIMA or ICAEW) to take over the role of Treasurer. We have a small but effective administrative team in-house and outsourced support for payroll and month end processes. We use cloud-based accounting software (Quick Books) and have well developed financial procedures and policies. We are strengthening our in-house team to reduce the burden on the Treasurer to around 2 or 3 days per month.  The new Treasurer will have the opportunity to amend/finalise any new approach.  The Treasurer will oversee the financial processes, monthly fund analysis and reporting, budgeting, project costing, financial forecasting and the preparation of year end accounts. We are looking for someone who understands Charity finances and who can play an active role in supporting the further growth of our services to families who are facing challenges.

We are keen to have a diverse range of skills and outlooks on the Board and welcome interest from people of all ages, backgrounds, and communities.

18 yrs and above

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