KING’S AWARD FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE 2024

Home-Start Basingstoke and Deane, a volunteer led charity, have been awarded The King’s Award

for Voluntary Service for 2024. This is the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and is equivalent to an MBE.

The local charity, who are also celebrating their 20 year anniversary, was nominated for the services they provide to families with young children across the borough. Their trained volunteers spend time with families in the family home and community to provide practical and emotional support to help reduce isolation and empower the family to give their children the best start.

Home-Start Basingstoke & Deane is one of 281 local charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to receive the prestigious award this year. Their work, along with others from across the UK, reminds us of all the ways fantastic volunteers are contributing to their local communities and working to make life better for those around them.

Home-Start Basingstoke & Deane will receive the award crystal and certificate from Nigel Atkinson Esq, Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire later this year. In addition, two volunteers from Home-Start Basingstoke & Deane will attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in May and June 2025, along with other recipients of this year’s Award.

01256 325793 info@hsbd.org.uk
www.homestart-basingstokedeane.org.uk