Goughs Charity of the Year
Goughs Solicitors are proud to support charities in and around Wiltshire
Charity of the year Home Start North Wiltshire
Our charity of the year from April 2025 is Home Start North Wiltshire
Home-Start is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children through their challenging times.
About Home Start North Wiltshire
Home Start North Wiltshire are an independent charity, based in Wiltshire, where they have been helping local families for over 35 years. Their mission is to empower parents to give their children the best start in life.
Home-Start support families with at least one child under 5 who are experiencing challenges such as: isolation/loneliness, anxiety, post-natal depression, illness, disability, money worries, family breakdown and multiple birth. Their volunteers visit families in the home and provide tailored support. Their service is preventative – they aim to build confidence and resilience – and stop family stress from becoming a family crisis. Home-Start is there for parents when they need them the most. #becausechildhoodcan’t wait.
Our charity of the year process
With our Charity of the Year initiative, we aim to apply our Goughs values of trust, teamwork, engagement, excellence and accountability beyond our immediate reach. We achieve this by supporting charitable causes to make a tangible difference within the Wiltshire communities we serve and with them, our clients and employees.
At Goughs we have a strong track record of building successful corporate partnerships with our respective Charities of the Year, having supported a wide variety of causes over the years. Our teams are passionate about getting involved in a varied and creative mix of fundraising efforts, both organised by ourselves and our partner charities. Beyond this we are keen to actively and regularly engage with you throughout the year to explore ways to work together, keeping our relationship dynamic and making the most of our twelve months of collaboration.
In our experience, truly engaging our whole workforce in our charity partnerships is crucial for making the most of the Charity of the Year cooperation. Where this has previously worked well, for example has been through volunteering opportunities for our colleagues which have proven to be a fantastic way of building a deeper and more enduring relationship between our organisations. We are also keen to hear about any events or initiatives you are planning and will encourage and support our colleagues to contribute in any way they can.
November 2024
On 30th November, we will stop taking new applications for our 2025-2026 Charity of the Year.
December 2024
All applications will be reviewed by the Goughs Selection Committee.
February 2025
The Head of Charity will contact the successful Charity.
March 2025
Our marketing team will work with our new charity’s fundraising team to create a 12 month plan of activities including the launch plan for April.
April 2025
We will launch our Charitable partner for the 2025-2026 period.
Working with our respective Charities of the Year has been a fulfilling and rewarding experience for all of us in the past and we are grateful for the opportunities we have been given to get involved.
In essence, all we would like to ask from you is your enthusiasm for our partnership. A passion for sharing your purpose and goals with our colleagues as well as proactiveness to help us foster collaboration in a variety of ways are important to us.
We believe that a dynamic and engaging approach to working together from the start is a main ingredient for the continued fantastic results we achieve with our Charity of the Year initiative.
The application to become our Charity of the Year 2025-2026 is now closed Good luck to all those who entered.
The chosen Charity will be contacted in March 2025 and officially announced in April.
Our application for 2026-2027 is open here:
You can apply to be our charity of the year by completing this form:
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