Volunteer with Home-Start
With just a couple of hours a week, you can help transform the lives of families in your community.
Volunteers are at the heart of Home-Start. The time you gift to volunteer makes a genuine difference and has a lasting impact on families and children.
We offer various volunteering options from supporting parents in the home to helping in our charity shop. Whether you have a few hours each week, a month, regularly or ad-hoc, we have something for you.
In 2024/25…
volunteer hours contributed
volunteers moved into employment or education
volunteer home-visits with families
Volunteer Opportunities
Take a look at our opportunities below to see what’s right for you, or give us a call to chat about what you’re looking for!
Corporate Volunteering
Looking for a meaningful way for your team to give back?
We offer Corporate Volunteering Days at our Baby Bank, where businesses can spend a day supporting families with young children who are facing difficult times. From sorting donations to preparing essential bundles for delivery, your team will make a real, practical difference to families in your local community.
Benefits of volunteering
Make connections
Expand your social network and meet new people
Build your skills
Gain experience, and learn new skills, that can help you change careers or find a job.
Offer support
Help determined families build bright futures for their children.
Feel a sense of purpose
Contribute to helping a child get the best start in life: it feels good!
Get in Touch
Not sure which volunteering role is right for you? We’d love to help. If you’d like to find out more or have an informal chat about the different volunteering opportunities available, we’re here to answer your questions.
Call us on 0161 344 0669 to speak to a member of our team, or Enquire online and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
What our volunteers say…
Volunteering for HOST is so rewarding, I think the volunteers get more out of the experience than the families themselves.
Parenting is amazing but it’s also really lonely. I’ve had experience of being a parent myself and I thought I could that experience to help another family”.
I love seeing Mum’s confidence grow every week and I really enjoy playing with the children and seeing them happy
I was a single parent so feel like I have lots of experience; I struggled with finances and loneliness when my child was little. I became a volunteer for HOST as I feel that I have plenty to give to others. I wish I’d known about Home-Start when I was struggling on my own because it’s good to talk to someone.
Lesley HOST Volunteer, Tameside Borough
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. I can’t remember what my HOST volunteer said but I do remember how she made me feel. That’s what I hold with my whenever I support a Mum now I’m a volunteer for HOST. Volunteering makes me feel ace!