HOME-START NOTTINGHAM

Registered charity 1097005 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

HOME-START NOTTINGHAM PROVIDES HOME-VISITING SERVICE OFFERING SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP TO PARENTS WITH AT LEAST ONE CHILD UNDER 5 YEARS WHERE THEY ARE EXPERIENCING STRESS, ISOLATION AND/OR ILLNESS.VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE PARENTS ARE RECRUITED AND TRAINED BY QUALIFIED AND PAID STAFF BEFORE BEING MATCHED TO FAMILIES. HOME-START NOTTINGHAM COVERS NOTTINGHAM CITY, RUSHCLIFFE, GEDLING, BROXTOWE AND ASHFIELD

Objects

1. TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN.2. TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN.3. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN.4. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILDCARE WITHIN THE AREA OF NOTTINGHAM AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: NOTTINGHAM AND ITS ENVIRONS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gedling, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £106,631 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £751,603 to £641,992. Total income fell significantly to £309,261 from £663,270 in the prior year, primarily due to the end of a major commissioned services contract. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider the current unrestricted reserves of £641,992 to be adequate against a policy target of three months' running costs (approximately £80,000) and sufficient to cover potential pension scheme withdrawal liabilities.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04698694 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Nottingham (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• SSBC Small steps big changes — “supporters SSBC Small steps big changes” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ALLEN, Katherine — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• ZAFAR, Iqra — director, appointed 21/08/2023on trustee list
• HUNT, Peter — director, appointed 19/12/2022on trustee list
• BURGESS, Judith — director, appointed 21/11/2022on trustee list
• HOWLING, Clare Marie — director, appointed 17/10/2019on trustee list
• LEIVERS, Sara Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 01/05/2014

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Howling
• Iqra Zafar
• Judith Burgess
• Katherine Allen
• Peter Hunt

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME START NORTHAMPTON.

• HOME START NORTHAMPTON income £180k
• HOME-START PORTSMOUTH income £902k
• HOME-START NORFOLK income £457k
• HOME-START NEWCASTLE BOROUGH income £149k
• HOME-START KERNOW income £528k
• HOME-START CROYDON income £350k

Side by side with its peers

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