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Home-Start Flintshire Volunteering

Last updated: 22/08/2025
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What we do

Home-Start Flintshire are a charity that work with families across the Flintshire area with the support of a trained volunteer team. We provide practical and emotional support to families with at least one child under 11 years.

Volunteers support families in a sensitive, flexible way to make sure that a child’s early years count. They share time, friendship and work alongside parents, focusing on strengths, offering opportunity to develop new relationships, ideas and skills and helping reconnect families with their community. Children, parents and the wider community all benefit from HSF’s work.

Families tell us how valuable HSF volunteers are:
“[The volunteer...was a regular part of the children’s lives, so I knew that they trusted her… It was the regularity that made it such a support – something to look forward to when things were difficult.'

Who do we support

Volunteering is a great thing to do if you are preparing to return to work, progress your career– or just want to do something amazing with your spare time. It can be tailored to suit a volunteer’s skills, experience and time available.
Volunteer roles include:
Home-Visiting Volunteer
Phone Support Volunteer
Group Session Volunteer
Office Volunteer
Student Volunteer
Social Media and Marketing Volunteer
Trustee/Advisor
Volunteers are offered free induction, up to date training and given expert support from staff. We pay travel expenses for volunteering activities, subscribe to the Tempo Time Credits scheme and offer access to our wellbeing programme.
‘I absolutely feel valued, 100%. Support has been fantastic. When I started volunteering my mental health wasn’t great but has really improved since volunteering. Life has improved, volunteering has been a game changer - it's been brilliant.'

This service is for people aged 18+.

Is there a charge to use this service?

No

Can anyone use this service?

No referral is required to volunteer with Home-Start Flintshire however we do complete DBS checks and request 2 references.

 Opening times

Monday to Thursday
9am-5pm

Friday
9am to 4.30pm

Where do we provide our service?

We will take reasonable steps to ensure the information within the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of this information. The contributors themselves maintain their own information and they welcome feedback about the accuracy of the information they provide. Those accessing it are advised to take reasonable steps to consider its content before acting upon it. This could include seeking professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the information within our website.

Please note that the results found when searching in English or Welsh on the English and Welsh sides of the website (www.dewis.wales or www.dewis.cymru) will sometimes differ. Providers can (subject to rules around language standards that apply to some provision) choose to enter their information in English only, in Welsh only, or bilingually. Whilst we try to use the technology within the site to limit the impact of their choice, both terminology and the structure of the languages mean that differences in the results produced is sometimes inevitable.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links are provided for your information only and should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We reserve the right to reject or remove links to any website if we find the site content inappropriate.

For more information please refer to the full terms and conditions.

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We will take reasonable steps to ensure the information within the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of this information. The contributors themselves maintain their own information and they welcome feedback about the accuracy of the information they provide. Those accessing it are advised to take reasonable steps to consider its content before acting upon it. This could include seeking professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the information within our website.

Please note that the results found when searching in English or Welsh on the English and Welsh sides of the website (www.dewis.wales or www.dewis.cymru) will sometimes differ. Providers can (subject to rules around language standards that apply to some provision) choose to enter their information in English only, in Welsh only, or bilingually. Whilst we try to use the technology within the site to limit the impact of their choice, both terminology and the structure of the languages mean that differences in the results produced is sometimes inevitable.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links are provided for your information only and should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We reserve the right to reject or remove links to any website if we find the site content inappropriate.

For more information please refer to the full terms and conditions.