Fundraise
Help us change a child’s life
Thank you for considering to help us Fundraise
What we need to raise this year with your help is:
What can I do?
Home-Start Horizons depends heavily on donations from people like you to fund our work with parents and children.
Everyone needs help some time in their lives. Please give generously and help us to make a difference to a child’s life today.
We’ve listed our most popular fundraising options below, please click on each item for more information.
Alternatively, if your ideal method isn’t listed here we’re always excited to hear of new and unique ways to fundraise so get in touch with the team and give us your best suggestions!
For every £1 you give to Home-Start Horizons:
- 88p is spent directly on our charitable activities
- 12p is invested to generate future income/fundraising
Leave a legacy
Leaving a gift to charity in your will is a fantastic way for your generosity to last beyond your own lifetime to help the next generation. In certain circumstances it can also be tax efficient.
Choosing to leave a gift in your will to Home-Start Horizons will allow us to continue our important work to support and help families in Leicestershire and Rutland. Whatever amount you decide to leave you will know that you will have helped us support families at a difficult time in their lives so that the children in those families are able to develop and thrive.
As a local charity we don’t have the resources to help you write your will or the right expertise to give advice. We recommend you speak to a solicitor when writing or updating your will. You will need to give the full name of the charity which is Home-Start Horizons and our charity number which is 1108455.
Thank you for considering us.
Amy Ratcliffe’s Fundraising Story
Amy took part in and completed the Venice Half Ironman to raise money for us. Read her full story here
For more ideas check out Home-Start UK’s fundraising tips below:
Please note:
Home-Start UK and Home-Start Horizons are not the same financial pot so please set up your fundraising effort accordingly.
Home-Start UK’s online fundraising tips gives great examples to start your fundraiser. Come back to our page when you’ve got your idea to set up your page.
Where your money goes
Why choose Home-Start Horizons
We believe that the best possible start in life for a child begins at home with their family. A nurturing, loving, stable family and home environment strongly determines a child’s future life chances. Children whose parents are struggling to cope can miss out on the love, routine and support that are vital for their future.
Each year we have to turn away parents and children from across Leicestershire and Rutland because we don’t have the funds to help them all. When children face severe illness, or disability, when their mother has postnatal depression, when their father loses a job and spirals into debt and mental ill health or alcohol abuse, when they are in shocking housing or their family is threatened with losing their home… our volunteers want to be there for them – to help them and their whole family until they can cope again. We want to reach each child in their vital early years so they can have the best possible start in life. Very often we are the last chance they have.