Home-Start, which recruits volunteers to help families with young children deal with the challenges they face, said it will receive £897,000 in funding from the Big Lottery Fund to "create a more efficient and collaborative network" to support more families across the UK.
Across all four nations of the UK there are 269 local, independent Home-Starts, through which 16,000 volunteers support 30,000 families and 60,000 children.
The charity said the three-year grant will support Home-Starts to work collaboratively, through mergers and consortia, and help them develop new ways of securing funding and investment for their work with parents and children.
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