Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page.

More people are moving away from sending Christmas cards and are donating the money they would have spent on the cards and the postage. 

We would be delighted if you chose us to donate to Home Start Horizons this year. 

Because you can help us change a child's life

The emotional, physical and psychological cost for children experiencing tragedy, hardship and neglect is immense and can last a life-time.

The need for our work is acute and growing.  In the Leicester right now 41% of children live in poverty. Across the UK:

• 93,000 children live in care – an increase of 10,000 in 10 years


• 1 in 10 children aged between 5 and 16  have a mental health problem


• 2 million children are regular witnesses to severe forms of domestic violence
  

We want to see a society in which every parent has the support they need to give their children the best possible start in life.

We believe that the best possible start in life for a child begins at home with their family. A nurturing, loving, stable family and home environment strongly determines a child’s future life chances. Children whose parents are struggling to cope can miss out on the love, routine and support that are vital for their future.

Each year we have to turn away thousands of parents and children because we don’t have the funds to help them all. When children face severe illness, or disability, when their mother has postnatal depression, when their father loses a job and spirals into debt and mental ill health or alcohol abuse, when they are in shocking housing or their family is threatened with losing their home… our volunteers want to be there for them – to help them and their whole family until they can cope again. We want to reach each child in their vital early years so they can have the best possible start in life. Very often we are the last chance they have.

Home-Start depends heavily on donations from people like you to fund our work with parents and children. Everyone needs help at some time in their life... please help us to make a difference this Christmas to a child's life

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Thank you & Merry Christmas

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