Inverclyde project is helping the most vulnerable families during the coronavirus pandemic

Home-Start Inverclyde has worked with Fareshare to deliver food parcels and visit their families.

Now they have been awarded £10,000 by the Community Lottery Fund to continue their work.

As well as helping out with food the co-ordinators deliver pamper parcels for parents and craft boxes for children.

Proud chairman Jim McEleny said: "I am very proud of Home-Start Inverclyde. It is a charity which is very close to my heart.

"I was invited along to an AGM and I was so moved by the work they do I signed up as a volunteer. Now I am a co-chair."

The project offers both one-to-one and group mentoring to families with children under five.

Many of them are struggling to cope for many different reasons.

One mum to benefit is 22-year-old Amyleigh Crumlish.

She said: " I don’t know how I would have coped, recently with COVID-19 crisis going on.

"There hasn’t been a week go by when I haven’t had someone text, phone or pop by my house to make sure we are both okay.

The organisation received the additional award of £10,000 to retain staff to manage volunteers who will deliver door-to-door support and pamper packs to families who need it.

Manager Iain MacDonald said: “As young families are having to live differently right now, our service is ensuring that no one feels isolated even if they are socially distanced and it’s thanks to National Lottery players that we can continue with this important work.”

Home-Start Inverclyde along with their Renfrewshire branch recently received £442,309 from the lottery to continue their work.

442,000 to keep them running over