Home-Start Blog

A little more love for Mother’s Day

This year, more than ever before, mums deserved some recognition and with the help of our John Lewis partnership, we were able to surprise the...

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HOPE (poem) – a constant in these unsettling times

It’s nearly a year now that as a country we have been battling the coronavirus. In some respects, it feels like a lifetime ago when...

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Keeley smashes her squat challenge for Home-Start

We want to say a tremendous thank you to Keeley Thomas, one of our incredible supporters, who has raised a whopping £1,672 for Home-Start! Keeley...

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Books, blankets and bags of ideas

National charities, local organisations and supportive individuals continue to encourage us with their generous offers of time and resources to help the families we are...

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Navigating the Motherhood Maze: First Time I Walked In (poem)

I don’t think anyone ever really explained to me how, when you’re a parent, you suddenly have to step up, or if they did, I...

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Local celebrations for Love your Home-Start day

So far, 2021 has been a pretty strange year: home-schooling, home-working, still no contact with friends and family, and planning for in-person events continues to...

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Navigating the Motherhood Maze: Chaos Tag

Our children bring us so much joy. And yet often, in this world of social media; Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, it’s easy to measure yourself up...

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Play the East Herts Lottery and support local families

If there’s one thing that the last year has shown us, it’s how we pull together as a community to support each other. There have...

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Navigating the Motherhood Maze: Same Same But Different

As our life with the coronavirus continues you might find yourself thinking “we’re all in the same boat” and “all in it together” – because...

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Cam Valley Crematorium show their support for local families

Just before Christmas, Claire Butcher, Manager of Cam Valley Crematorium, got in touch. She told us that Home-Start had been selected as one of five...

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Charity Partnership helps us to ‘Give a Little Love’ to our families

It was a great joy for us to ‘Give a Little Love’ to our Home-Start families at Christmas, thanks to our partnership with John Lewis...

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Johnson Matthey employees help make Christmas 2020 special for our families

2020 is perhaps a year that many people will be glad to see the back of. Without a doubt, it has been one of the...

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