HOME-START ASHFORD & DISTRICT

Registered charity 1105541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START ASHFORD

To provide support and friendship for families with young children.

Objects

A)TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;B) TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;C) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;D) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILDCARE WITHIN THE AREA OF ASHFORD AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: ASHFORD AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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: Ashford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £2,374 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total expenditure exceeding total income. However, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern, citing stable financial positions, secured funding, and reserves of £181,053 which are well above the stated policy target of six months' expenditure.

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
• Investing charity funds 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05171519

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.

• CORBY, Katherine — director, appointed 12/10/2026not on trustee list
• WESTON, Katy Elizabeth — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• SOMERSCALES, Moya Ann — director, appointed 21/07/2025on trustee list
• STOATE, Lucy Ann — director, appointed 21/07/2025on trustee list
• PAULEY, Katherine Amber — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
• SMYTH, Norma — director, appointed 22/04/2024on trustee list
• REID, Alexandra Louise — director, appointed 16/10/2023on trustee list
• GANDOLFO, Giovanna Pia Victoria — director, appointed 16/10/2023on trustee list
• BLAKE, Julie Clare — director, appointed 24/04/2023on trustee list
• EVANS, Jeremy David — director, appointed 20/09/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lucy Ann Stoatechair
• Alexandra Reid
• Giovanna Gandolfo
• Jeremy David Evans
• Julie Clare Blake
• Katherine Amber Pauley
• Katy Elizabeth Weston
• Moya Ann Somerscales
• NORMA SMYTH

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

Operates in: Kent

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 RICHMOND, KINGSTON & HOUNSLOW.

• HOME-START RICHMOND, KINGSTON & HOUNSLOW income £589k
• HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE income £209k
• HOME-START SUTTON income £284k
• HOME-START NORFOLK income £457k
• HOME-START BARNET income £647k
• HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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