Home-Start North and West Gloucestershire is a branch of the national Home-Start UK network offering practical and emotional support to families in Tewkesbury, Cheltenham, and the Forest of Dean. Ours is a unique service - recruiting and training volunteers who are parents themselves, to visit families at home who have at least one child under five and offer informal, friendly and confidential support. To help give children the best possible start in life, Home-Start supports parents as they grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children and widen their links with the local community. While all Home-Start schemes are guided by the same national principles, each is an autonomous unit, individually registered with the Charities Commission, and with its own local management committee responsible for its own funding. We regularly partner with local businesses in North and West Gloucestershire as their chosen charity, and have been able to help even more families as a result of their support.