12/08/2025
Home Start - Dad Matters in West Northamptonshire
Home-Start is a UK-based charity that provides support to families with young children who are facing challenging times. Trained volunteers and experts offer practical help, friendship, and emotional support to parents, helping them build confidence and strengthen their relationships with their children.
Founded in 1973 by Margaret Harrison in Leicester there are around 180 local, independent Home-Starts operating in 71% of local authority areas across the UK.
Since 2017 Dad Matters is a Home Start support service dedicated to helping new and expectant fathers build strong relationships with their families. They focus on attachment and bonding, mental health, and guiding dads to access services that support them deal with the life changing events that come with parenthood.
In West Northamptonshire Dad Matters offer dads to be and dads with children to age 5 one-on-one support, dad and child play and support groups, and dad outreach programs.
For more information or a personal contact email to:
admin@homestart-northampton.org.uk