A DONATION of £1,750 from Monmouth Rotary to Home-Start Monmouthshire will go towards valuable training of staff.

Home-Start Monmouthshire manager, Pam Lloyd said the donation will fund future courses.

She said: “It’s going to run a training course to train our volunteers and to pay some of their expenses when they are visiting families.

“This is going to support a training course at the beginning of the next financial year.

“At the moment we have not got enough money to support our project in 2017 and 2018 so this has really kickstarted our project.”

The course consists of training volunteers for when they go out into the community.

Mrs Lloyd said: “All our volunteers have to do what we call a preparation course which is 40 hours before they can go out and volunteer with the family.”

This donation is just one of the many made by Monmouth Rotary and Paul Sherrington from the group said Home-Start is exactly the type of organisation they try to support.

He said: “This is all about helping Home-Start because they help others to help themselves.

“It’s great to help group like this that are helping families and also the young people in the community move forward.”