Home-Start East Antrim

18/06/2026

18/06/2026

Could your business or organisation help?

Home-Start East Antrim is looking for 2 small office desks and chairs in good condition for our local family support charity.

If you have office furniture no longer needed, we’d love to hear from you.

📧 [email protected]
☎️ 028 9332 8875

18/06/2026

💜 Could this be your next role?

🧡 We’re recruiting a Family Support Practitioner (Home Visiting) in Carrickfergus.

Scan the QR code or apply online 👉 homestarteastantrim.org.uk/recruitment-02

17/06/2026

💜 TAKE THE LEAP FOR LOCAL FAMILIES! 💜

Could you take on our Europa Hotel Charity Abseil Challenge?

Join us on Sunday 20th September 2026 and help raise vital funds for local families across East Antrim.

💜 £40 Registration Fee

💜 Minimum Sponsorship Target £100

💜 Places are limited

💜 Professionally delivered by Belfast Activity Centre

💜 Participants must be aged 18+

👉 Sign up today:
https://homestarteastantrim.org.uk/take-the-leap

16/06/2026

⭐What a fantastic term with these families, we hope to see you all soon over the summer months!
🩷Good luck to all the children moving onto Pre-School settings in September!

13/06/2026

Our service is growing — because local families need support now more than ever.

This year, Home-Start East Antrim supported 256 families and 424 children across our services.

At the heart of this work are our amazing volunteers, supported by our dedicated staff team, trustees, funders and community supporters. 💜🧡

Behind every number is a local family.

13/06/2026

🎓🐛Celebrating our Baby Bugs Graduates!

This week we had the loveliest celebration as our Baby Start little ones completed the Baby Bugs baby massage programme, delivered by the wonderful Sylvia from Chitterbugs NI 💜

We want to say a huge thank you to Sylvia for bringing the Chitterbugs Baby Bugs programme to our families. The sessions have been so nurturing, giving parents and babies time to bond, relax, connect and enjoy special moments together. 👶🌈

We are delighted that Sylvia will be joining us again over the summer as part of our Nurtured by Nature sessions. 🌿☀️💛

11/06/2026

🌟 RAISE Big Hopes, Big Futures programme underway in Carrickfergus and Greenisland 🌟

Members of the Home-Start East Antrim team were delighted to welcome Fiona Nelson, RAISE Locality Co-ordinator for Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus and Antrim, from the Department of Education NI today to hear how the first few months of our RAISE-funded Big Hopes, Big Futures programme have been going.

Through this programme, we are delighted to support young children and their families across Greenisland and Carrickfergus to build school readiness through play, routines, early learning and confidence.

Weekly sessions are being delivered at Silverstream Primary School and Nursery Unit, Greenisland and The Home-Start Hive at Oakfield Community Centre, alongside tailored support for families in their own homes.

10/06/2026

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