Home-Start Medway
There for parents when they need us most, because childhood can't wait
Home-Start Medway is responsible for raising all the funds required to run our services. There are various ways in which you can help contribute financially to our charity:
SUPPORT US BY SHOPPING AT CO-OP!
We’re delighted to let you know that from today, Co-op Members can officially support Home-Start Medway (Cause ID: 79300) as part of the Local Community Fund!
The funding period will run until next year, closing on 19 October 2024!
If you’d like to find out more, you can do so by clicking here or you can watch the webinar here.
IT’S OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY 🧡💜
We have now been supporting families for 50 whole years!
We are starting our 50 for 50 campaign so please get involved or donate if you can!
To make a donation from you bank online please just click the CAF donate orange button to be directed to our online fundraising platform
Fundraising Events
We are always happy to offer help and support to individuals or companies looking to hold fundraising events on our behalf. From tea parties to quiz nights to sponsored walks, there are many ways to raise funds to support our work. If you have any great ideas about fundraising events please contact us on 01634 570717 or send us an email through our contact us page.
Corporate Sponsorship
Corporate sponsorship can bring many benefits to a company and even small donations can make a big difference to our scheme. If your company would like to contribute to the work of Home-Start Medway we would love to hear from you! We would also be happy to come and speak to your staff about the role we play and how they could help. Can you help by sponsoring us? Please contact us.
Easyfundraising
Shop Online and Raise Money for Home-Start Medway!
Have you heard about easyfundraising yet? It’s the easiest way to help raise money for Home-Start Medway! If you already shop online with retailers such as Amazon, M&S, Argos, John Lewis, Comet, Vodafone, eBay, Boden and Play.com, then we need you to sign up for free to raise money while you shop!
So how does it work?
You shop directly with the retailer as you would normally, but if you sign up to our account for free and use the links on the easyfundraising site to take you to the retailer, then a percentage of whatever you spend comes directly to us at no extra cost to yourself.
How much can you raise?
Spend £100 with M&S online or Amazon and you raise £2.50 for us. £100 with WH Smith puts £2.00 in our pocket and so on. There’s over 2,000 retailers on their site, and some of the donations can be as much as 15% of your purchase.
Save money too!
easyfundraising is FREE to use plus you’ll get access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and voucher codes, so not only will you be helping us, you’ll be saving money yourself.
Sign up and start making a difference…simply by shopping clicking on the logo below.
Fundraising News and Events
Find out what we have been doing, and what is coming up. Below we are featuring news items relating to Fundraising activities for Home-Start Medway. Click on the image, title or read more link to open the item for more details.
50 FOR 50
IT’S HOME-START UK’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY 🧡💜 They have now been supporting families for 50 whole years! We have started our 50 FOR 50 Campaign and if you want to get involved, you could do an activity 50 times to raise funds! Just to give you some examples of what...
Give A Little Love
Families are running on empty. The pandemic has been toughest on those already struggling. But we’ve also seen communities coming together. We want to keep that spirit of generosity alive by encouraging everyone to give a little love this Christmas and give their...
Capturing the spirit of generosity in our communities
A new partnership launched today between Home-Start, FareShare, John Lewis and Waitrose aims to create an outpouring of kindness to help Britain’s struggling families this Christmas. This festive season is sure to be one like no other. Parenthood is challenging enough...
Celebrating our first donation via CAFDonate
I would like to thank our first online donor for the £50 they donated to Home-Start Medway using CAF Donate. Donations like this help us to make a difference to Medway families, so a massive thank you CAF Donate is our new online tool to receive one off and regular...
It takes ‘Allsorts’ to make a community! Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund
It takes 'Allsorts' to make a community! We are excited to announce that The National Lottery Community Fund 'Awards for All' has given us £10,000 to continue to run Allsorts our weekly Stay 'n' Play group in St Francis Church, Galahad Avenue, Strood and also extend...
We made it into the Gill’s FC programme!
We got a mention in the Gill's FC programme at the weekend!If you think you could be a Gill's fan and a Home-Start Medway fan, why not contact us about volunteering, fundraising or donating?
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