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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 very pleased to welcome Miriam Philip who has joined us a co-ordinator while George is on maternity leave. Miriam has lots of experience working with families. She has previously worked with refugees and on an early years education project in Zanzibar.
Miriam can be reached on Georgina’s old mobile number 07931 524979 or at the Home-Start Westminster office on Rossmore Road.

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.

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.

We have recently launched a new website that is intended to provide more information about what is going on at Home-Start Westminster. Please visit regularly to keep up with our exciting news.

Favourite nursery rhymes was the theme of our joint celebration with New Pin to mark National Bookstart day and we had tremendous fun letting our imagination run riot producing rockets and stars galore.  Adults and children were all engaged in the activities – both fun and educational – organised by a representative from Westminster Adult [...]

In October 2007 we were delighted to receive the Investing In Volunteers Award, as recognition for the high standards of service that we have achieved. We embarked on the process of the Investing in Volunteers award to not only ensure that we were following best practice and procedures in supporting our valuable volunteers but also