Home-Start is a voluntary organisation offering support, friendship and practical help to families at home with children under seven.
Here at Home-Start West Somerset, we support families from Minehead to Watchet and from Porlock to Dulverton!
Bump-Start is our innovative early intervention programme using volunteers to support families through pregnancy, the birth experience and during the first year of their baby’s life.
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Big Hope Big Future aims to enable Home-Start volunteers to promote parental engagement with their children to support them to be ready for school.
Volunteers will support families to:
- Establish good routines,
- Help parents to manage children’s behaviour,
- Encourage parents to focus on raising levels of early literacy.
Jump-Start is a friendly and informal parent-lead support group who meet once a month.
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Story-Start encourages families to read, tell stories, sing, rhyme and encourages imagination in a once a month book club held at different locations across West Somerset.
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Supporting Parents and families with their babies and children to learn together, building on the skills and opportunities that are all around us to enhance their learning outcomes.
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