Home Start Harwich

Home-Start Harwich offers a range of services for families which include home visits and weekly and termly support groups. We support families facing isolation, the effects of post-natal illness, disability or mental health issues, bereavement, multiple births, poverty, debt or financial difficulties, and a whole range of other challenges. Families can be referred by organisations or they can self refer. The family must have at least one child under the age of 11 years. Click 'Details' for more information.

Our groups are primarily aimed at parents with under-fives as they run during the mornings. During school holidays parents are encouraged to bring older children, up to the age of 11 years, along too.

Baby-Start: For parents or carers with a baby who are not yet independently mobile - Monday mornings 10-11.30am. 

Fun-Start: Universal group, open to all families with a child under 5 years - Thursday mornings 10-11.30am and family groups run on Tuesdays from 10-12 noon.

Friday Friends: Peer support group, supported by a partner organisation, Extra Parenting Support for Families, weekly during term time, 10-12noon (All at St Nicholas Hall)

Parkeston Stay, Play and Learn Group runs on Wednesday mornings 10-11.30am, weekly during term time in Parkeston Railway Club.

Outdoor Explorers: Friday mornings 10-11.30am at Bobbit’s Hole Nature Reserve, Harwich.  For more details click Harwich Home Start

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