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Home-Start Wessex Shortlisted in National BQF UK Excellence Awards

Home-Start Wessex Shortlisted in National BQF UK Excellence Awards Home-Start Wessex is delighted to have been shortlisted for the Patron’s Award for Charity Organisations in the nationwide BQF UK Excellence Awards 2026. The BQF UK Excellence Awards highlight the...

Home-Start Wessex helps record number of families in crisis

Home-Start Wessex reports another record year, supporting over 500 local families in crisis and transforming 1,716 lives  With local families continuing to feel the strain, Home-Start Wessex has stepped up to support a record 526 families in crisis, transforming the...

Families First for Children Pathfinder Project

Families First for Children Pathfinder Project We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Dorset Council as part of the Families First for Children Pathfinder programme. Through this collaboration, we are delivering Home-Start services to support local families,...

Cost of Living Support

Jo Hebditch, Connected Communities Coordinator at BCP Council, along with her colleague Amy Gallacher, are working alongside other teams and partners to deliver cost of living support for local residents, including the Household Support Fund 4 scheme. The Cost of...

Big Hopes, Big Future

Home-Start UK has developed the unique Big Hopes Big Future programme to work directly with parents and children and help them to build the skills they need to be ready for the first day of school. In the UK around 600,000 five-year-olds start school for the first...

Rapid Response Early Intervention Service

At Home-Start Wessex we are fortunate enough to have received a grant from the NHS Charities Together Partnership Grants Programme to fund a ‘Rapid Response Intervention Worker’ in the team to provide specialist 1:1 home visiting support to families with the most...