About HRF

Personal well-being and improved quality of life – these are everyone’s goals, but where do we start?


According to anthropologists, sociologists, doctors, economists and educationalists, the answer lies in the home. What we eat, basic hygiene and health care, the quality of our home surroundings, our space and the way we use our time at home are all fundamental to our overall development and the fulfilment of our individual potential.


The purpose of the Home Renaissance Foundation is to bring about a change in public perception of the value of the work in the home and how profoundly it affects us.  Our vision is to advance the recognition of the importance of high quality care provided in the home and its determining impact on achieving a balanced society.  This can be brought about by encouraging research, promoting professional standards in all home skills, renewing the culture of the home and giving due recognition to its social value.

 

As is considered essential in all other fields, training is needed to ensure that we use our inherited traditions, our natural talents and the development of technology to the best effect for the work needed to create our homes.

 

As a society we have lost many of our native skills in care provision at home.  Home Renaissance Foundation will act as a catalyst for change by developing links with organisations and the media in order to influence policy by:

 

 

 
  • Encouraging interdisciplinary research (economic; educational; medical; vocational training; legal etc) relating to the home and care of the family and the individuals who make up families;

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  • Promote excellence in training in home-related skills, e.g. home economics, purchasing and preparation of meals, hygiene, health and safety;

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  • Improving the expertise and skills within families that create a healthy and congenial home environment

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    We believe that these skills form the root of the all-round health, development and well-being of individuals and, by extension of a stable and economically sound society.  They apply as much to people living alone as to families. The future of society will be determined by excellence in the home.


    Domestic work is not just a collection of services – laundry, cleaning, food etc., but a values system in which science, art, psychology, culture, skills, a capacity for management all play a part and which takes into account the individual in his or her own very personal and intimate environment and supports the workings of their own family.

     

    The physical and emotional development of the people who live in the house depends, in part, on the care and attention they receive at home.  This applies whether they are children, old people, adolescents, or men and women with demanding, stress-inducing professions, all of whom rely very much on the affection and respect expressed through domestic care and attention.

     

    Home Renaissance Foundation is committed to promoting, developing and using all multidisciplinary scientific knowledge which contributes to a better understanding and management of social change in accordance with the universal values, deeply rooted in Christianity, of justice, freedom and human dignity.