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Who says there is no news in August…. in HSW we have plenty. Not only are our families enjoying the Summer programme of events that we have arranged for them with more to come but two of our team, Emily and Sunny, have found time to announce their engagements! This is wonderful news and we [...]

We have a limited number of tickets available for this exciting event in the Autumn. Please contact admin@hswestminster.co.uk for details.

This reception will be the highlight of our Autumn events and if you would like to join us for drinks and canapes on the Terrace of the House of Lords and a tour of Parliament please contact admin@hswestminster.co.uk

Congratulations to Karen Buck in north Westminster and Mark Field in the south of the borough who were both re-elected as our local MPs. We look forward to continuing our work with them on behalf of our families.

Please contact us asap if you are interested in joining us at the House of Lords reception on behalf of HSW on October 7th. Tickets are £65 for the champagne reception and tour of the building.

On 8th April staff, families and children enjoyed our annual Easter picnic to Regent’s Park. Parent’s were able to enjoy relaxing in the sun chatting to old friends and getting to know some news ones while we organised games for the children to enjoy such as an egg and spoon race (which some parent’s even took part in!), a sack race, parachute games and the highlight of the day – our annual easter egg hunt. I’m not sure who had more fun, Emily and George hiding the eggs or the children finding them. We were blessed with beautiful weather and over 15 families and 30 children enjoyed the day.

The training for this project with Turn2us and the Child Poverty Action Group is now well underway and our volunteers are very enthusiastic about this new tool. All volunteers who complete the training and pass the online test are given a certificate by Turn2us and updated on further enhancements to the system.

On the 3rd March we were very kindly invited to Numer 11 Downing Street by Maggie Darling to celebrate our tenth anniversary. Over 60 of us, made up of families, children, volunteers, trustees, staff, funders and supporters enjoyed a wonderful tea party in a beautiful setting. Many thanks to everyone at Number 11 for such a wonderfully memorable day.

We are currently running our first training course of the new year and once again we have an interested, committed and inspiring group who will go on to be valuable volunteers. We do need more volunteers as our waiting list is continuing to grow. if you are interested in joining the next training course please contact: admin@homestartwestminster.co.uk

Home-start Westminster is very pleased to be a partner in a project with Turn2us and the Child Poverty Action Group to deliver a new service to help families in need claim money available to them. A group of our volunteers tested the Turn2us Benefit Checker and Grants search programme and we will be training all our volunteers to use this e-learning resource to enable them to offer personalised, practical help to the families they support.