Home-Start Lakeland
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AGM, a Big Birthday & Farewell Home-Start Lakeland held their AGM on 20 June 2023. It was also an opportunity to celebrate a big birthday for outgoing Trustee Harold Hunter. Harold has been a Trustee since 2009 and will be sorely missed. Home-Start Lakeland thank...
New volunteers
New Volunteers Home-Start Lakeland welcome 4 newly trained volunteers.
Amazing Multiples Summer Session
Amazing Multiples Summer Session Our group for twins and multiple births visited Fermanagh Fun Farm for their end of year, summer session. It was a lovely sunny day to be outside and the kids enjoyed feeding the animals, a ride on the tea-cups, soft-play and a well...
Volunteer Day
Volunteer Day We had a lovely day celebrating our volunteers today during Volunteers Week in June 2023 with a walk, tour of house and picnic in the grounds of Castle Coole. We can’t thank our volunteers enough for all they do to support families with young children in...
Big Paddle
The Big Community Paddle, Picnic & Volunteer Village, Enniskillen Castle This community event on 8th May 2023 in conjunction with the Coronation Bank Holiday, was an opportunity for volunteer organisations to showcase their activities and attract new volunteers. ...
Easter Eggs
BT Staff Donate Easter Eggs Thank you to the staff of BT for donating Easter Eggs for Home-Start Lakeland supported families.
Osborne & Co
Osborne & Co Osborne & Co chose Home-Start Lakeland and Home-Start Omagh District as the recipients of the proceeds from the sales of their 2022 Christmas Bauble. A presentation was made to Diane Noble, Co-ordinator of Home-Start Lakeland and Allison Spriggs,...
St Patrick’s day parade
Thank you so much to everyone who helped out on St Patricks Day and for the amazing people who attended on the day and gave so generously! We raised £2250 which will go towards supporting families with young children in Co Fermanagh.
New Volunteer Preparation Course
New Volunteer Preparation course – we will be running a preparation course in Spring 2023. This will be a hybrid course consisting of 4 face-to-face sessions and 4 online sessions. Please get in touch if you would like to train to be a home visiting volunteer or...
New Trustees
Home-Start Lakeland are delighted to welcome two new Trustees to the scheme, John Cathcart and Anne Harte. They will bring their invaluable experience and skills to the committee.
St Patrick’s Day Parade in Enniskillen
We are the nominated charity for this year's St Patrick's day parade in Enniskillen. We were supposed to be the beneficiaries in the 2020 event but due to the pandemic that did not take place and this is the first St Patrick's day event in Enniskillen since then so it...
BT Call centre helps Home-Start Lakeland at Christmas
The Staff of the BT Centre in Enniskillen donated over 60 toys for children and gifts for parents at Christmas. BT Enniskillen have been long term supporters of Home-Start Lakeland at Christmas. Staff of BT Centre in Enniskillen have donated toys for children and...
Welcome to our new website!
We are very pleased to announce that we have a new website developed by Mark Wingrove, a web developer that specialises in sites for charities and not for profit groups. The new website is responsive which means it is mobile friendly.We have provided a basic...