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VOLUNTEERS

Home-Start Bexley is recruiting volunteers and our next FREE Training Course is starting soon

Could you help make a difference to a local family?

Have you got a few hours a week to spare?

You can be any age, and the only qualification you will need
is experience of the stresses of being a parent.

 

As a parent you'll know just how tough it can sometimes be.  Did you sometimes long to have someone to talk to, to confide in or just to share a coffee and a chat with?
  1. Will I be the right sort of person to support a family?
  2. Home-Start volunteers are all ages and from all walks of life.   All that we ask of them is that they have experience of bring up children and can spare between two and four hours a week.
  1. What would visiting a family involve?
  2. This varies.  You could spend time with a young parent, helping to build their confidence as they adapt to life with a small baby or share an outing with a family who finds getting out of the house difficult.  The visits might involve offering an extra pair of hands to a family with several children or providing a listening ear to a mother who is suffering from post-natal illness.
  1. I'm not a parent, can I get involved?
  2. Yes, you can.  We always need volunteers, parents or non-parents, who could support schemes by helping with fundraising activities or by joining the Management Committee and get involved in the running of the scheme.  For these roles you would not need to be a parent.