Sainsbury's Nairn

Home-Start is a local charity that has worked to support disadvantaged children and families in Ross-Shire for more than 30 years. Each year we work with around 200 families and about 400 children. Our work is quite unique and includes a range of programmes to train and support our staff and volunteers to work directly with disabled and disadvantaged children, and their parents to help build the behaviours, understanding and skills the children need to be ready to grow into responsible adults and to make the very most of the opportunities that life presents them with. Our aim is to ensure that every child has the best possible start in life. Our project specifically targets the most disadvantaged and isolated families in our community, including families that do not readily engage with their children’s early needs because they lack confidence or feel alienated from other public services. We spend time with families and provide the books, toys and resources needed to support the family's specific needs, and we show the family how to address and cope with behavioural problems, chaotic lifestyles, poor health or disability, and can help to develop communication skills where English is perhaps not the family's first language.

The organisation's purposes are: 1 the advancement of health 2 the saving of lives.

Nairn Foodnest is a Community Project which has been set up to address the issue of food waste. We have volunteers ,who will collect the available produce from shops in the area, and make it available at our central location. This is a shed with a fridge and is in ground adjacent to Nairn Old Parish Church. The food will be free to everyone in the Community and we plan to have the shed open daily between 8am and 8pm. This is an exciting new project and we hope people will be keen to get involved. We hope we will be able to engage with other Community groups in the area to further reduce food waste .