HOME-START BRADFORD DISTRICT

Registered charity 1090435 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START BRADFORD

Home-Start Bradford District is a preventative & early help service offering confidential, support, friendship and practical help to families who have at least one child under the age of 5 years. They recruit, train and support volunteers, all of whom have parenting experience, to home visit families who are experiencing difficult times and promote self-esteem, confidence and encourage self-help.

Objects

A) TO SAFEGUARD PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDRENB) TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDRENC) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN ANDD) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE WITHIN THE AREA OF BRADFORD ITS ENVIRONS

Area of benefit: BRADFORD AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £109,328 were held at year end, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £115,800 to £173,800. The trustees acknowledge this shortfall and note that the organisation is monitoring the funding situation closely due to the ending of several key longer-term grants.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Milnerchair
• Brooke Hitchen
• Christopher Comey
• Karen Ruth Bodger
• Louise Keith
• Philip Fisher

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER.

• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START MANSFIELD income £129k
• Home-Start Suffolk income £683k
• HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE income £279k

Side by side with its peers

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