Home-Start’s Stanage Stumble charity challenge
At 9am on Sunday 1 May, the Royal wedding bank holiday weekend, walkers from all over the region are invited to walk or run the famous Stanage Stumble raising vital funds to help Home-Start.
Home-Start is the UK’s leading family support charity help vulnerable Sheffield children and families and they will aim to raise a vital £3000 to help vulnerable children
This is a challenging 10 or 25 mile walk (or run the longer route) for up to 350 entrants, within Sheffield’s boundaries offering beautiful views over the edges of the Peak District: Limb Valley, Fox House, Higger Tor, Stanage Edge and Redmires Moors. The challenge is to complete the distance in less than 10 hours and raise £3000 for the charity.
| 40 entrants have signed up to take the Challenge so far, so there is plenty of room to make this the best Stumble ever and raise vital funds for struggling families. The low entry fee of £8 in advance includes a certificate, badge and hot meal following completion at HSBC Limb Lane sports ground where The Stumble starts and ends. |
Home-Start welcome you, your friends, families and colleagues to join them for a special day to remember. Entry forms and posters to display are available from their website www.hssheffield.org.uk/news where you can also download sponsorship forms and posters for the event.
Home-Start background and servicesHome-Start runs more services and has more volunteers supporting more families than any other family support charity in the UK.It was founded in Leicester in 1973 and now has schemes across five continents.Its 325 UK schemes are supported by 15,000 Home-Start volunteers visiting families at home each week.Volunteers provide non-judgemental practical and emotional support and help build the family's confidence and ability to cope. Usually referred by social services, health visitors and support workers, they are there for parents battling against isolation or bereavement, those juggling the pressure of a multiple birth, illness or disability as well as those who are simply finding parenting a struggle.The Sheffield branch was set up 28 years ago and has supported 4,161 families in that time - an average of 250 families a year. It has 100 volunteers at any one time.Home-Start help to increase the confidence and independence of families by:- Visiting families in their own homes to offer support, friendship and practical assistance
- Reassuring parents that their childcare problems are not unusual or unique
- Encouraging parents' strengths and emotional well-being for the ultimate benefit of their children
- Trying to get the fun back into family life
- Precious time for listening and talking
- Help with the children
- A break for parents
- Practical help and reassurance
- A chance to meet other parents in similar situations
- Support to use local services and resources
- They may feel isolated in their community, have no family nearby and be struggling to make friends
- They may be finding it hard to cope because of their own or a child's physical or mental illness
- They may have been hit hard by the death of a loved one
- They may be really struggling the with emotional and physical demands of having twins or triplets - perhaps born into an already large family
- Tabitha Sutcliffe- Baby’s First Year: developing the attachment and bonding between mum and baby during a baby’s first year of life, support in home and group support, video. (Unique project in Sheffield.)
- Karen Minors- Parents as First Teachers: helping children meet their developmental milestones through monthly visits to help families play with their children fun filled activities. (Only project in north of England.)
- Joanne Glen- Post Natal Depression: offering practical and emotional support to mums diagnosed with post natal depression, one to one home visiting and weekly group support
- Sarah McClean- Child Protection
- Sadia Asghar- Nursery Project- early allocation nursery place for 2 year olds in vulnerable families