Home-Start Portsmouth turns 30

Needles and Pins Knitting Group are knitting 30 Trauma Teddies for our volunteers gift to children.

A great stress reliever and tool for those who have experienced trauma, this really is an amazing gift for us to be able to give to our families

Click here to sponsor a teddy today

Our Big Hopes Big Future Co-Ordinator, Jen, is running a whopping 30k around Portsmouth on 30th October

To support and donate to Jen’s chellenge, click here

I am running this year’s Great South Run, Portsmouth (Sunday 16th October 2022) for a local charity: Home-Start, specifically to support a local charity and families. Whilst teaching in Portsmouth schools (since 2003), I’ve seen how family life has changed and have been affected; and the needs & wellbeing of our children (our future) too … particularly, during the last few ‘Covid’ years.

It’s the first time Home-Start Portsmouth, have entered a runner into our local ‘Great South Run’, and I’m very happy and honoured to be able to run for them.

Please do consider donating and help support our local community. 

Click here for Paul’s JustGiving page

Do you want to join me in making a difference? I’m raising money in aid of HOME-START PORTSMOUTH and every donation will help. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

Click here to visit Lucy’s Go Fund Me page

Take part in our charity golf day next month!

As part of our 30 for 30 anniversary celebrations this autumn, one of our Trustees, Hayley, is organising a charity golf day at Portsmouth Golf Centre.

Sign up individually for £55, or as a 4-ball for £200. To secure your place, email hayleyc@hsportsmouth.org.uk.

Join our volunteers for a fun filled action packed Quiz evening!

Thursday 20th October – 7:30pm – 10pm

Havelock Centre, Southsea, PO4 0LQ

£2.50 per person – payable on the door

Max 6 people per team

Bring your own booze and snacks!

Book your spot here

This year I will be running the GSR 10 miles raising funds for the awesome Homestart- Portsmouth who have been supporting families for 30 years this October!  As a health visitor I have worked alongside Homestart on and off for over a decade and have seen the incredible difference that they make. We refer families for variety of support including groups and 1:1 peer support. Their volunteers have been a life line to many families, being someone they can talk to and offering vital links into the wider community, helping them to access playgroups, parks and other services, reducing isolation and stress. Over the last few years this has been more important than ever! 

When I said I was running and shared the help Homestart offer my awesome son Sam (aged 10) said he wanted to do something to help families access this support.  So he has signed himself up for junior (9-15 year olds, 2.5km) event. 

Please consider donating even a small amount for this amazing organisation.

Thank you! 

To support Charlotte and her son click here

Our Finance Officer here at Home-Start Portsmouth HQ is running the Great South Run and raising funds for families in the city and giving her support to our 30-for-30 challenge

To donate click here

This year is tough for everyone and without Charitys such as these who depen on fundraising events so many families will be pushed further down into poverty debt and depression. 

Home-Start works with families in communities right across the UK. Starting in the home, our approach is as individual as the people we’re helping. No judgement, it is just compassionate, confidential help and expert support.

Last year Home-Start supported 56,000 children in 27,000 families, in communities across the UK.

There are over 180 local, independent Home-Starts working in 71% of local authority areas across the UK.

Across all four nations of the United Kingdom, 13,500 home-visiting volunteers support over 27,000 families and 56,000 children to transform their lives.

Families struggling with post-natal depression, isolation, physical health problems, bereavement and many other issues receive the support of a volunteer who will spend around two hours a week in a family’s home supporting them in the ways they need.

Home-Starts across the UK also support families in groups, hold day trips and Christmas parties and help access local services, as well as lots of other support.

As i partake in the GSR most years I always try to do a little bit of donation raising for charitys close to my heart, this year I have decided to take it to the next level and compete and the HYROX birmingham doubles on the day prior to the race as an added challenge. For those who arent aware HYROX is a competetive fitness event consisting of 8 1km runs with a functional exercise between each run the stations are 1000m skierg, a heavy sled push, a heavy sled pull, 80m broad jump burpees. 1000m row, 200m kettlebell farmers carry, 100m walking sandbag lunges, 75 wall ball to 9ft target.

To donate to Lisa’s challenge click here

To donate to Alyson’s run, click here

Thanks for clicking through, please let me reassure you that absolutely any donation will go directly to Home-Start Portsmouth where the small staff team support amazing volunteers to help local families. 

I used to work for Home-Start Portsmouth, I know first-hand the difference the organisation makes to the families it supports. Thank you so much for any donation you can afford. 

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

To donate to Suzy’s challenge, click here

One of our wonderful volunteers is making craft kits for the children we support for our 30-for-30 challenge.

Alison will be making 30 craft kits (with the ability to make more) for the month long challenge and is asking you to sponsor one

Simply donate here to support this great no-waste fundraising

The Home-Start Portsmouth office team are attempting to ride 300 miles in 3 days to kick off their 30-for-30 month long fundraising extravaganza – this sort of works out to our Head Offices in Leicester and back!

A bike has been brought to the office on loan where each team member will take it in turns to complete the task – all around their day-to-day work too!

Please click here if you would like to make a donation to Home-Start Portsmouth and their efforts to kick off this campaign

Anna Marie from Pamodzi Creatives in Portsmouth, is asking for sponsorship for 30 good deeds for our 30-for-30 challenge

Bringing the amazing community of Portsmouth together, she plans to take on a challenge or good deed a day to raise awareness for support out there for a variety of struggles

You can follow what Anna is doing each day here

Sponsor Anna’s challenge here 

The wonderful cantando Choir are sinigng 30 songs back to back as their 30-for-30 challenge 

Celebrating their own 10 year anniversary, they are challnegeing themselves to some non-stop singing to support Home-Start Portsmouth

Friday 21st October

The Jolly Sailor, Southsea

7:30pm – 10:30pm

You can sponsor them here

On Sunday 6 November, Lucy Jackson will be hosting three wine tasting sessions in her wine shop on Albert Road, Wines By The Sea. The tasting sessions are free, but she’ll be asking for donations to Home-Start Portsmouth as part of our 30^th anniversary celebrations, and giving 10% on selected bottles as a donation to Home-Start. Find out more.