Our Charity News
Welcome to our charity news blog. Below you will find our Bedfordshire charity’s news on volunteering, making donations & fundraising ideas as well as information on our domestic abuse and PND support services.
Kiddi Caru Donates To Home-Start Central Bedfordshire
February 13th, 2015 | donating
A heartfelt thank you to Kiddi Caru Day Nurseries for their donation to our Snowflake Appeal for local vulnerable children. Our Family & Children’s Charity supports hundreds of families with young children in Bedfordshire and Luton each year. It costs us just £15 to support a local family for a week, donations from local businesses […]
Inspiring Music Fundraises For Our Charity
December 30th, 2014 | fundraising
Thank you to Inspiring Music who had a collection for our Bedfordshire Snowflake Appeal at their senior strings concert for schools in Biggleswade earlier this month! A special thank you to Alison Brown who organised the concert and Charlotte one of the directors. Inspiring Music provides music lessons for schools across county, find out more […]
‘Big Fat Wedding Party’ Raises Money For Our Charity
October 22nd, 2014 | fundraising
A very heartfelt thank you to Lisa Jacobs from Leighton Buzzard for organising the ‘Big Fat Wedding Party’ in aid of Home-Start Central Bedfordshire and the Leighton Linslade Homeless Shelter. Lisa had the wonderful idea of having a party where everyone could dust off their wedding dresses and suits whilst fundraising to help local charities. […]
Parenting – Parents Helping Other Parents…
June 5th, 2014 | parents
Parenting young children is an incredibly rewarding experience. However, as we all know, parenting is not always easy! In this article, Linda our charity’s CEO discusses why we provide essential parenting support services across Central Bedfordshire. It’s still incredible to think that I’ve been working here for the past 17 years! I have stayed for […]
Home-Start – Becky’s Story
February 25th, 2014 | volunteer-bedfordshire
Becky is a single mum with three children, two are teenagers and younger son James will be 2 years old in September. She was referred to Home-Start by her health visitor as she was feeling low and had just been prescribed ant-depressants. When Home-Start was first mentioned to Becky, she was surprised that a service […]
The Parent CV: Skills You Didn’t Know You Have!
October 24th, 2013 | volunteer-bedfordshire
In our last two articles for Bedfordshire Parents Week we talked about ‘making one change’ (the theme of this years Parents Week) but what about the things we already have right now? What wouldn’t we change? We put this question to our staff who said that they wouldn’t change most of their experiences being a […]
Volunteer Interviews: Volunteering In Sandy, Bedfordshire
October 23rd, 2013 | volunteer-bedfordshire
My name is Amanda and I am a Home-Start Volunteer in the Biggleswade and Sandy area. I have two young children; a boy age 10 and girl age 8 and have been volunteering with Home-Start for 4 years! I also volunteered with Christian Family Care at Manor Farm and also with Sweet Peas which is a support group […]
7 Ideas For Quality Family Time!
October 22nd, 2013 | parents
This years National Parents Week theme is ‘Make One Change’. With the week fast approaching on the 19th October, we asked our staff & volunteers – ‘If you can make one change for Bedfordshire Parents Week, what would it be?’. The majority said that they wanted to spend more time with their family. But just […]