Home-Start Omagh District
There for parents when they need us most, because childhood can't wait
About Us
Home-Start Omagh District recruits and trains volunteers from around the Omagh District region of Northern Ireland. We then carefully match the volunteer with a family in need of support. Volunteers are from all walks of life, each and every one has parenting, or caring experience, 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 Omagh District is a local charity which has provided invaluable support and friendship to families in the Omagh District area since 1994 and has achieved positive outcomes for hundreds of families living in the community.
Home-Start Omagh District 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 2 members of staff. A team of 22 trained volunteers visit families at home and help support parents at the Family Groups.
Management Committee
Home-Start Omagh District is an independent charity run by a Management Committee 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.
Annual Report
You can download our Annual Report for the period 2022-23 by clicking on the button in this section.
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