STARTING OUT CHARITY

Registered charity 1064064 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KINDNESS OFFENSIVE, STARTING OUT, THE STARTING OUT CHARITY HARROW

Assisting individuals, businesses and community groups starting out on new and challenging ventures, with a particular emphasis on stopping global warming. To relieve hardship within communities by distributing goods and services via large fun volunteering projects.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£165k
Latest spending
£191k
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is solvent, without debts, and holds £25,733 in cash funds against a reserve policy target of up to £20,000. Total receipts for the period were £161,361, providing adequate funding for initiatives into 2025.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: up to £20,000 (held: £26k)
Starting Out aims to hold up to £20,000 in reserve to ensure project delivery continuity. — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
01/03/2025£165k£191k
01/03/2024£48k£65k
01/03/2023£119k£100k
01/03/2022£119k£93k
01/03/2021£52k£42k

Common questions

Is STARTING OUT CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is solvent, without debts, and holds £25,733 in cash funds against a reserve policy target of up to £20,000. Total receipts for the period were £161,361, providing adequate funding for initiatives into 2025.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund05/08/2022£10kCommunity Kindness Offensive
The National Lottery Community Fund09/04/2020£10kCorona Virus Kindness Offensive
The National Lottery Community Fund07/12/2018£10kThe Starting Out Kindness Offensive
The National Lottery Community Fund08/07/2010£10kThe Kindness Offensive Asks For Kind Computer Help

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
STARTING OUT CHARITY£165k0unclearno doubt
CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP FY2025£4.3m0aboveno doubt
START NETWORK FY2024£23.8m£100,001 - £110,00010within3.6%no doubt
HOME-START (COTSWOLDS) LTD FY2026£164k0aboveno doubt
SOLIDARITY PROJECTS LTD FY2023£111k0unclearno doubt
HOME-START CORBY LIMITED FY2025£144k0unclearno doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.