Home-Start Southwark

Who we are

We are a Home-Start scheme working in the London Boroughs: Southwark and Lewisham. We provide high quality support for families with babies and children under the age of 5. We believe that the earliest years make the biggest impact, and we want to make sure those years count so that no child’s future is limited.

Our culture and values

Most parents would agree that being a parent, wherever you live, whatever your circumstances, isn’t always easy. Combine that with additional pressures such as illness or financial worries, and without the support of family and friends, the pressures can seem overwhelming. Our approach is simple, but it works! We provide trained volunteers to help any parent, with at least one child under five, who is finding it hard to cope.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Working in such diverse parts of London as Southwark and Lewisham, makes us especially focused on DEI - for everyone involved in Home-Start Southwark's mission it is more than policies, programmes or headcounts. To provide more suitable support for both families and volunteers, it is essential to better understand our local community and its character, earn deeper trust from the families, gain more commitment from the volunteers.

And we do it all by applying DEI principles in our day-to-day processes.