article_snippet: I couldn’t resist asking,’ Christine, a grandmother who has worked for the charity for seven years, said afterwards.
article_snippet: Babies were very much the order of the day for the Duchess, who was in Woolwich to meet volunteers helping out at Home-Start, a charity that helps more than 29,000 families a year.
article_snippet: the Duchess, who was in Woolwich to meet volunteers helping out at Home-Start, a charity that helps more than 29,000 families a year 15,000 volunteers visit clients in Its 15,000 volunteers homes, helping parents struggling to cope with issues such as isolation, mental ill health, bereavement, multiple births, illness or disability - many of which have a direct effect on mental ill health, bereavement, multiple births, illness or disability - children.
article_snippet: The Duchess declined a biscuit but listened intently as Rob Parkinson, CEO of Home-Start UK, outlined the work Its 15,000 volunteers did.
article_snippet: Then it was on to meet some of the families who have received often life-changing help from the charity including Charlene Roper, 25 and Charlene Roper partner Graham Wilders Jnr, 32, who were with their impeccably behaved three-month-old daughter Francesca, the youngest of their three children.
article_snippet: I can now see how the work you does makes such a difference to all these families.
highlights_snippet: Met families being helped by Home-Start, a charity that supports troubled or vulnerable parents .
  