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A small team of people are running Basingstoke Half Marathon/10k or 5k (known to be challenging routes) on Sunday 5th October 2025. They are raising money for a great local charity that relies on fundraising to enable them to continue their work with over 200 families each year across Basingstoke and Deane, our wonderful runners are:-
Sam Baker
Graeme Jones
Keith Burroughs
Rachel Williams
Elizabeth Belcher
Bethan Rixson
Seren Rixson
Luke Thorpe
Home-Start Basingstoke & Deane provide a unique local service for families facing challenging times. Supervised by a professional staff team, their trained and experienced volunteers are role models for parents in their own homes, helping them develop good routines, encouraging them to interact positively with their children and to build support networks in the community.
Their home-visiting service is complemented by a number of peer support groups in the local community which bring parents and children together.
The families Home-Start work with are not failing, and they are not fixing them, they are walking beside them offering them the friendship, encouragement and opportunity to learn the skills they need to get to a happy place together as a family.