About Us
About Home-Start Ealing
Home-Start Ealing recruits and trains volunteers from around the borough of Ealing. We then carefully match the volunteer with a family in need of support. Volunteers are from all walks of life, each and every one a parent or even grandparent, all with a little free time available each week to help provide emotional and practical help to local families. Support is confidential, flexible and totally responsive to the family’s needs.
Home-Start Ealing is a local charity which has provided invaluable support and friendship to families in the Ealing area since 1996 and has achieved positive outcomes for hundreds of families living in the community.
Home-Start Ealing is affiliated to the national organisation, Home-Start UK, but we are autonomous and responsible for our own management and securing our own funding. Home-Start UK provides advice and support through a local Family Services Specialist and a stringent Quality Assurance review process ensures the scheme operates effectively.
We have 3 members of staff. A team of 48 trained volunteers visit families at home and help support parents at the Family Groups.
Board of Trustees
Home-Start Ealing is an independent charity run by a Board of Trustees made up of local professionals (e.g. but not limited to Health Visitors, Teachers, Social Workers),
Our trustees come from all walks of life, bringing their experience and individual skills to our scheme. The kind of skills that are in demand are business or personnel management, finance and fundraising, IT and communications. But you don't need special qualifications to be a trustee - common sense, flexibility, time and an ability to work as part of a team, a willingness to learn, understanding the pressures facing parents today and a genuine interest in supporting parents in the local community are just as important to us. Please contact us to find out more.
Home-Start Ealing Impact June 2025 - 2026
During this period Home-Start Ealing received 133 referrals, enabling us to provide crucial 1:1 and group support for 128 families.
Our assessments highlight significant positive outcomes:
- 88% reported improved overall well-being.
- 81% showed an increase in self-esteem.
- 65% demonstrated enhanced children’s development, early learning, and socialisation.
Referrals came from a strong multi-agency network including social workers, health visitors, perinatal mental health teams, midwives, GPs, children’s centres and Early Start services.
Discover Volunteering
Our volunteer driven support makes us totally unique, could you be our next volunteer?
Why volunteer for us?
Over the last 52 years, Home-Start volunteers have improved the childhoods of 1.5 million children
Volunteer opportunities
Check out the various roles Home-Starts offer so that you can support families and children in your community.
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