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Internationally renowned children’s author Cornelia Funke has joined Home-Start Westminster as our patron. As you will see from Cornelia’s biography, a better match would be hard to imagine!
Biography
Following university, Cornelia worked for three years as a social worker in an educational project, working with children from difficult backgrounds. Following this she worked as a designer [...]

Our new trustee Penny Wigram surprised us all with an introduction to and a visit from the renowned children’s author Cornelia Funke – creator of the internationally best-selling Ink Heart series. Cornelia’s publishers had sent us a collection of her books to distribute to our families, which Cornelia not only signed but also individually illustrated [...]

On 7th December we held our Family Christmas Party together with Newpin family centre. It was a fantastic party, with delicious food, santa and entertainer Mike Belgrave with his two guitars, balloon animals and amazing energy!
Then on 8th December we held our Volunteer End of Year party. A huge thank you to our longstanding [...]

A massive thank you to the 16 charity walkers from ING who completed a 5k walk around the city for HSW on 26th October. Each walker had a target of £50 sponsorship to raise and this will be generously matched by ING. The final total is being counted up, but it looks like the team [...]

Click here to see our latest Annual Report, with details of all our activities and events in 2010-11…
Annual Report 2010-11

We are pleased to announce that HSW has been awarded a grant by the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund / the Big Lottery Fund’s People Powered Change programme! We have been awarded £5,000 towards our free counselling and psychotherapy service for parents with young children who are facing severe difficulties – including depression, social isolation, [...]

We wish all our families, volunteers and supporters who are fasting a blessed month and a joyous Eid

We are proud to announce that HSW is the joint winner of the 2011 Westminster Volunteer Award for best organisation! This award is for excellence in volunteer best practice, creating a range of interesting volunteering opportunities & providing positive experiences to volunteers. The awards ceremony took place on Wednesday 1st June at the Abbey Centre, [...]

“As you are reading this I will be either in the planning of, climbing or having climbed Kilimanjaro!  This is going to be a great challenge for me and I am sure that the experience will stay with me for the rest of my life. I would also like my efforts to have an impact [...]

On 25th March we received the fantastic news that HSW has been awarded 5 years funding by the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme! We have been awarded £280,796 over 5 years, to offer emotional support and practical help to parents with at least one child under five. Please click here to link to the [...]