SCHOOL-HOME SUPPORT SERVICE (UK)

Registered charity 1084696 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

School-Home Support's vision is that every child has the support they need to thrive and achieve. We work to make this vision a reality by helping disadvantaged, vulnerable and disaffected children overcome barriers to learning through the support of highly-trained, independent workers in schools and through training and consultancy services around our best practice.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HOME-SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES TO IMPROVE THE PASTORAL CARE OF PUPILS; 2. TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES WHICH ADVANCE EDUCATION AND THE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE APPLICATION OF RESOURCES FOR THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF ADVANCING EDUCATION BY PROMOTING, DEVELOPING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF PUPILS OR WHICH FOSTER LINKS BETWEEN HOME AND SCHOOL.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year, with total expenditure exceeding total income. While free reserves fell significantly below the trustees' stated policy target, the filing notes that deferred income and healthy cash balances provide reassurance for the near future. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — School-Home Support (SHS) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matthew Koster-Marcon — Chair of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Vanquis Banking Group — “We are proud of our flagship partnership with Vanquis Banking Group (VBG) who fund our practitioner service in Bradford and Kent.” (source page)
• CIBC — “This exciting partnership will run for three years, and is filled with numerous fundraising activities each year.” (source page)
• Liberum — “The financial support Liberum provides is part of a much wider partnership with Liberum employees embedded within the partnership, offering …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Parker
• Christopher Yiannakou
• Dan O'Brien
• David Alexander MacPherson Dickson
• Emma Grace Tina Fay
• Faye Stevenson
• Hazel Pitchers
• JOSEPH WILLIAM HOWES
• Laura Naomi Bruce
• Matthew James Koster-Marcon
• Nikolai Petrou
• Tillie Elizabeth Wigger

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

Operates in: Blackpool · Bradford City · East Sussex · Kent · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUCKLEY HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED.

• LUCKLEY HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £8.7m
• SUSSEX HOUSE SCHOOL income £5.7m
• BURPHAM PRESCHOOL income £112k
• Home-Start Suffolk income £683k
• HOPE HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.0m
• RICHMOND HOUSE SCHOOL income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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