Home-Start Spelthorne
We're there for parents when they need us the most,
because childhood can’t wait.
Fundraising
How you can help us
To download the Home-Start Spelthorne “How you can help us” newsletter click here!
Home-Start Spelthorne currently receives funding from Spelthorne Borough Council but we are responsible for raising all the funds to make up the shortfall required to run our home-visiting family support service. Our shortfall is over £50,000. The competition for funding has always been fierce and is even more so now due to the current economic climate. This has necessitated Home-Start Spelthorne searching for new avenues of funding. There are various ways in which you can help contribute financially to our charity.
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, all sorts of different events can be a way of raising funds to support our work. If you have any great ideas about fundraising events please contact us!
Contact us:
- If you can help in any way
- Make a Donation – see our JustGiving donation page
- Leave a gift in your Will
- Donate items/crafts/unwanted gifts for us to sell at local fetes and events
- Join our 100 Club (£20 per year membership with 3 draws a year with 3 prizes – £20, £15 and £10)
- Join our Gold Club (for £10 per month with a monthly prize of £50)
- Take part in sponsored runs/walks/skydiving – set up your own fundraising page on BT MyDonate or JustGiving
- Hold a coffee morning/garden party/bring and buy sale to raise funds
- Attend a car boot sale to raise funds
- Donate items for raffle prizes
- Donate your loose change
- Donate foreign notes left over from your overseas holiday/business trip
- Donate home-made cakes for our events
- Ask your employer about match funding one of our events
- Encourage your business/company/school to nominate Home-Start Spelthorne for their Charity of the Year
- Use www.easyfundraising.org.uk for your online shopping, a percentage of everything you spend can be donated to us if you register online (see below)
- Donate your spare time to help at fundraising events
- Like our Facebook page and share with friends. www.facebook.com/homestartspelthorne
- Follow us on Instagram. @homestart_spelthorne : https://www.instagram.com/homestart_spelthorne/
If you are interested in learning about any of these initiatives please contact us
Gold Club
Since its launch in April 2014, the Gold Club has proved to be a successful method of fundraising. We are now encouraging more people to join for £10 a month with a monthly prize of £50. If you or your friends would like to support us by making a regular donation then contact the office now for an application form. It is easy to do – you just need to set up a regular monthly payment to our bank account of £10. The lucky winner is posted each month on our website and if you are our lucky winner we will contact you directly!
For a monthly payment of £10 you will be entered into a draw every month for the chance to win £50!! For more information please contact us. Or download a leaflet here.
100 Club
Please help us to raise funds by supporting our 100 Club.
100 Club information poster to share.
You can join now for just £20 a year. There are four draws each year with three prizes. 1st prize £20, 2nd prize £15 and 3rd prize £10.
A percentage of the money will be donated to Home-Start Spelthorne. Please contact the office to join.
Download the 100 Club new member application form here.
To renew your membership there are various payment options: an annual standing order payment payable on 1st April (please use your name and 100 Club as a reference), one off payment into our bank account (Account No. 60153850 Sort Code 20:81:11), cheque or cash direct to the office.
Download the 100 Club membership renewal leaflet here.
Corporate Sponsorship
We welcome corporate sponsorship. There are many benefits to a company for corporate sponsorship, even small donations can make a big difference to our scheme.
If your company would like to fundraise on behalf of Home-Start Spelthorne we would love to hear from you! We would be happy to come and speak to your staff about our work and how they could help. Please contact us.
Buy a Home-Start Spelthorne Gift Voucher – Looking for a gift and struggling for some ideas?
Why not purchase a Home-Start Spelthorne gift voucher for £20, which will entitles the lucky beneficiary to one year’s membership of our 100 Club which has four draws a year and three prizes each time of £20, £15 and £10.
Not only would you be giving them the opportunity of winning a prize but you would be supporting a worthy cause.
All monies received would help support young families who are facing challenging times.
For further information please contact the Home-Start Spelthorne office:
Tel: 01784 463200
or email info@home-startspelthorne.org
JustGiving
You can help support the work of Home-Start Spelthorne by visiting our JustGiving account. JustGiving can also collect Gift Aid on our behalf. Please click on the icon below to visit our account.
Please note: Although we will receive all donations made via JustGiving, we won’t always know who the donation is from and so we cannot send our thanks. Therefore, we thank you in advance for your generosity!
What your donation would mean to us…
When isolation began, parents expressed their worries and concerns about looking after and feeding their children. It is an ongoing worry.
With over 2,000 babies born every day, new parents are stuck at home and have no one to help them through what is already an uncertain time.
We need your help more than ever to be able to support families in Spelthorne.
A £15 donation would cover a volunteer’s expenses for a month.
£10 would help us support a struggling family with practical goods, e.g. nappies and baby food.
£25 donation would help us support a family for a week.
If anyone feels they are able.
£300 would enable us to support and supervise a Home-visiting Volunteer for a year.
£250 would enable us to recruit and train a Home-visiting Volunteer.
And the big one.
£1500 would enable us to support a family for one year.
Easyfundraising
Raise funds for Home-Start Spelthorne when you shop online!
Easyfundraising is a shopping directory listing many of your favourite online stores, including Argos, Next, Amazon, Debenhams, John Lewis, TUI, Booking.com, Lastminute.com, Haven Holidays, Expedia, Hotels.com, and over 600 other companies. Whenever you shop with any one of them using the links provided on the easyfundraising site, you will generate a free donation for us of up to 15% of the purchase price every time. It really is that simple!
It is completely FREE to register and you won’t pay a penny more for your shopping when you use the easyfundraising site. In fact you can SAVE MONEY as many retailers give discounts, special offers and even ‘e-vouchers’ exclusive to easyfundraising.
Please go to our page on EasyFundraising.org.uk and register for free. Follow this link to learn more about EasyFundRaising.
Remember to use easyfundraising every time you shop online. It’s free to use and we benefit from your online purchases. Click on the icon below to sign up or make a purchase through our account:
Collection Boxes
Raise money by collecting your loose change in one of our collection boxes. Available from the Scheme office.
A big thank you!
Home-Start Spelthorne would like to give thanks to all our generous supporters. We thank our principal funders Spelthorne Borough Council and BBC Children in Need, and many other generous people and organisations.
Follow this link to see our Annual report 2024-2025 with an up-to-date list.
Thank You Too!
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