Together We Begin Investing in home-based early years support.

Investing in home-based early years support

We’re funding organisations that provide early years parenting support and promote children’s development through sustained, face-to-face work in the home.

The key aims of the fund are to strengthen parenting skills to improve children’s outcomes, build confidence and reduce stress in the home, and connect families to their local community.

We’re committed to funding work that is rooted in communities, strengths-based , responsive to need, inclusive and accessible and focused on meaningful, lasting change.

The Together We Begin fund is part of our Getting Started funding priority, which supports families to give young children the best possible start in life.

What we’re funding

Organisations that:

• Provide face-to-face support to families in their homes

• Have proven experience of working with families facing financial hardship or social isolation, who have children aged 0-5 and/or during pregnancy

• Deliver work in a high-need area – Work must be delivered in areas with high levels of child poverty; at least 24.9% of children live in poverty in your local authority area (see 23/24 data for details).

• Are part of the local community and able to connect families to other services and support

• Are willing to share learning with us to help improve early years practice and policy