Category: News

Home – Start Colchester worked so hard this year. The scheme quickly picked up momentum to deliver on the schemes new strategic plan. We improved our schemes accessibility and environment and moved to a new accessible office. We met or over performed on our funders Home-visiting Service level targets, which assisted our monitoring to reflect...

Volunteers for new health project needed An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit 10 volunteers for our new project Recipe4health  starting April 2013. Colchester/Tendring The role of the volunteer will be to support the Local aim in halting the rise in Childhood obesity prevalence and encourage changes to help children to live healthier lives. Volunteers...

We have recently been informed that our application for The Health & Social Care volunteering (HSCVF) has been successful! £49,000 over two years! To use volunteers to promote early intervention approaches and targeted awareness rising around healthy eating in primary school children, particularly focussed on those from vulnerable groups. Our aim is to raise awareness...

The Community Budget Group awarded Home-Start Colchester with a cheque for £575.00. This successful bid was to buy  resource bags for volunteers to use when visiting families. The volunteer play session helped to identify the need for the packs and useful contents and we are looking forward to providing all our volunteers with these  innovative...

The trustees of the Truemark Trust have agreed a grant donation to support Home-Start Colchester . The grant would enable us to deliver a weekly support group for 12 weeks for 10 families suffering from low mood and anxiety. The Time 4 U 2 group aims to offer social interventions and shared parent and baby...

Following our recent application to BBC Children in Need we have received fantastic news that the trustees have approved our 2 year grant application for a Fun Start project! The Fun-start project has been created to cover a gap in service that was identified through recent family feedback and monitoring. Our aim is to supports...

Home-Start Colchester is new recruiting volunteers! Please contact the scheme for a volunteer application pack if you are interested in supporting local families. Make a difference in your community! We are also hoping to recruit Deaf volunteers and volunteers with British Sign Language skills to support local Deaf parents and children. Can you help! https://www.home-startcjc.com/volunteer

Happy Newyear! Home-Start Colchester has supported many parents to access Local Community Learning. Volunteers have supported parents by taking along information on local Adult learning courses. Volunteers have also supported visits to trainer providers and even supported parents with home learning by occupying/playing with the children. A volunteer can support families in many ways and really make a difference. Adult...

Information on how to make a referral Any family with at least one child under five years of age may be referred to Home-Start Colchester for support if they are going through difficulties. With the family’s permission, mothers, fathers, step-parents and carers can all benefit. Families choose to accept Home-Start support and can decide to end...