🚨 URGENT: Help Stop Home-Start Flintshire From Closing This September

Hundreds of local children and parents are about to lose the lifeline they depend on. We need your help now.

Home-Start Flintshire has supported families through their toughest moments for more than 30 years but without emergency funding, we will be forced to close our doors in September 2026.

This would mean no home visiting support, no family groups, no early intervention and no trusted volunteer by the side of parents who are struggling.

We urgently need to raise £250,000 to keep our vital service running.

Without it, Home-Start Flintshire will disappear.

💛 What Closure Would Mean

If we close in September:

• Parents facing crisis will have nowhere to turn.

• Children will lose a trusted, consistent adult who helps them feel safe

• Families experiencing isolation, mental health struggles and poverty will be left completely unsupported

• Early intervention work that prevents crisis will stop

• Volunteers with lived experience, the heart of our service, will no longer be able to help the families who need them most

This is not just the loss of a charity.

It is the loss of a lifeline.

🌟 Why We Must Fight for Home-Start Flintshire

Every week, families contact us because they are desperate.

Every week, new parents reach out because they feel alone.

Every week, children benefit from a calmer, safer, more nurturing home because a volunteer walked through the door.

We step in before crisis escalates.

Before a parent breaks down.

Before a child’s world becomes unsafe.

If we close in September, those early intervention moments simply will not happen.

🎯 Our Emergency Target: £250,000

This funding will allow us to:

• Keep our home visiting service running

• Support families before they reach breaking point

• Sustain and train volunteers with invaluable lived experience

• Continue our groups like Stay & Play, Bump, Baby & Me and Play & Learn - vital for social interaction, building confidence, with expert support on hand.

• Prevent isolation, support mental health and give children the best possible start

Every pound helps keep Home-Start Flintshire open.

🧡 Voices From Our Volunteers

“I know what it feels like to struggle. I volunteer because I want families to know they’re not alone. The thought of Home Start closing breaks my heart, families need us.”

Your support keeps these volunteers by the side of parents who need compassion, understanding and hope.

Our volunteers are the heart of Home‑Start Flintshire. Their lived experience builds trust, hope and connection in a way nothing else can.

Your support helps us train and sustain this incredible team.

🌟 How Your Donation Helps

Every contribution, big or small, moves us closer to ensuring no family faces tough times alone.

£1 – Could provide a snack for a child attending group

£10 – Could fund phone credit for essential volunteer check ins

£15 – Could fund our school readiness pack to help a child start school ready to learn

£25 – Could provide a family with specialist support from a Home-Start Co-ordinator

£50 – Could fund emergency essentials for a family in crisis

£75 – Could fund 3 hours of volunteer training to support families in crisis

£100 – Could fund a month of regular bespoke volunteer support for a family

£115 – Could fund perinatal and infant mental health training to volunteers, to set the foundation for babies emotional and physical wellbeing

£240 – Could fund 6 families to attend a ‘Pram Walk & Talk’ to improve their mental health and prevent isolation

£360 – Could fund a Stay & Play session for 25 children and their parents

£560 – Could fund 10 hours of targeted support for families most at risk of family breakdown and social services intervention

£1,000 – Could fund the entire support package for a family receiving targeted volunteer support in their home

£2,205 – Could sponsor a 7 week programme of ‘Play & Learn’, an innovative school readiness programme for up to 10 children

£5,000+ – A transformational gift that helps keep us open and able to support children & their families when they need the help the most.

Every donation, of any size, is a step closer to survival.

🙌 This Is the Moment We Need You Most

If Home-Start Flintshire has ever touched your life —

If you believe every child deserves a safe, nurturing start —

If you want to protect a vital service that prevents crisis —

Please act now.

Share. Donate. Fundraise. Partner with us.

Help keep Home-Start Flintshire open.

Help us reach September and beyond

💛 Who We Are

Home‑Start Flintshire supports families through some of the most challenging moments in their lives. Our trained volunteers, many with lived experience of parenting struggles themselves offer compassionate, non‑judgemental, early support to families with young children.

We step in before challenges escalate, helping parents build confidence, strengthen relationships and create safe, nurturing homes where children can thrive.

This is early intervention at its most human and most effective.

🌱 Why We Need Your Help

Right now, families across Flintshire are facing increasing pressures — financial strain, isolation, mental health challenges and reduced access to local services. At the same time, demand for our support is rising faster than ever.

Our local authority funding has ceased and funding has become more difficult to secure.

To protect and expand our vital early‑intervention work, we are launching our most ambitious campaign yet. We are reaching out to our community to ask for your help and support.

🤝 Why Early Intervention Matters

Early support changes lives.

When a volunteer walks through the door, families feel seen, heard and understood. Parents gain confidence. Children feel safer and more secure. Homes become calmer. Relationships strengthen. Futures brighten.

Early intervention matters because families need support long before challenges become overwhelming. Our groups give parents a safe, welcoming space to connect, share experiences and build confidence, while children learn, play and thrive. By offering support early through Stay & Play, Bump, Baby & Me and Play & Learn, we help families feel less alone and strengthen the foundations that make a lasting difference.

This is not short‑term help — it’s lasting change. Early intervention stops families from reaching crisis and prevents more costly statutory services having to step in.

Your donation helps us continue this life‑changing work.

🧡 Together, We Can Make Sure Families Don’t Fall Through the Gaps

Your generosity will help us:

• Reach families earlier

• Prevent crisis

• Build resilience

• Strengthen communities

• Give children the best possible start in life

This is your chance to make a real, lasting difference for families across Flintshire.

🙌 Join Us

Donate. Share. Fundraise. Partner with us.

Whatever you can give — time, money or support — will help us change lives.

Together, we can reach £250,000.

Together, we can help families thrive.

Contact us:

Tel: 01352 744060

Email: admin@home-startflintshire.co.uk

Website: www.home-startflintshire.co.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HomeStartFlintshire95

Address: Unit 3 Mold Business Park, Wrexham Rd, Mold, CH7 1XP