About Home-Start Leith & North East Edinburgh

Welcome to Home-Start Leith and North East Edinburgh:

Being a parent, whatever your age, background or other circumstances, isn't always easy. This, coupled with other pressures in life such as illness, stress or financial worries can make parenting even more difficult and overwhelming.

Home-Start Leith and North East Edinburgh have been based in Leith since 1985. We are a registered charity managed by a board of trustees. We train volunteers to visit families once a week in their own homes.

All of our volunteers are trained over a 6 - 8 week period, have enhanced disclosure checks and are parents themselves. We work with families in need of support who have at least one child under the age of five.

The Home-Start Leith and North East Edinburgh team is friendly, approachable and caring. We consist of a senior coordinator, a coordinator, an administrator, two creche workers and a team of volunteers.

'My mums volunteer is her life-line, someone she looks forward to seeing each week.'

[A Home-Start Family]