Support for Saturday Dad’s Club
The Newark Trust are delighted to support Home-Start Inverclyde.
Lisa Carberry, Director of Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde said, “In the ten years since being with Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde, never have the challenges families are facing been more complex. The donation is gratefully received and appreciated more than words can describe.”
The Newark Trust has donated £10,000 to Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde to support their work for families in Inverclyde.
They offer a unique service which provides volunteer led parent-to-parent support to families with at least one child under 5 years of age. They work alongside families, providing practical and emotional support, to improve family life and help the children achieve their full potential.
The families supported often face barriers to engagement and are amongst the most marginalised in society. They work with parents coping with a combination of difficulties: mental and physical health challenges, social isolation, distressed child behaviour, post-natal depression, unemployment, poverty, and trauma. Home-Start are connected and integrated with the local communities and can see first-hand the inequalities faced by too many families.
The focus is on prevention and early intervention, and they describe their approach as a sort of scaffolding around the family. Families are supported throughout their life stages, a family may be referred to in crisis and need the support of their Family Support Workers, once things become more manageable this family may then move to volunteer and group support before then moving to group only. Although a linear example, the service is often not linear as families progress and falter, so the service is tailored to the needs of each family and support is provided for as long as necessary.
The funds will be used towards the costs of the Saturday Dad’s Club, supporting the Summer Trip to Blair Drummond and premises.
This is such an important service and offers amazing support to local families and The Newark Trust are delighted to begin their relationship with Home-Start.