Bracknell Town Mayor's charity 2015/2016

During his mayoral year, Bracknell Town Mayor Cllr Mark Phillips is raising funds for Home-Start Bracknell Forest. Home-Start Bracknell Forest offers free, confidential support, friendship and practical help to parents in Bracknell. Volunteers are trained to support families that are finding it difficult to cope with issues such as post-natal depression, their own or their child’s illness or disability, isolation or multiple births. Volunteers have parenting experience themselves and are carefully matched to a family that needs support. Volunteers visit the family they are supporting in the family’s home, and offer emotional and practical support through difficult times for as long as it is helpful or needed. This friendly parent-to-parent support is a simple yet effective way of enabling families to get back on track.