HOME-START CYMRU FOR FAMILIES

Registered charity 1105577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START CARMARTHENSHIRE, HOME-START DINEFWR

Supporting families with young children who may be experiencing difficulties. Volunteers offering support in family home or in group setting. Parents benefit from support, friendship and practical help, from volunteers who have parenting experience. Service is free and confidential.

Objects

) 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 CHILDREND) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE; PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN WALES 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £129,644 for the year, which reduced its unrestricted reserves to £345,282. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of holding free reserves equal to three times their average monthly expenditure, a level they consider sufficient to continue operations despite funding pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Cymru for Families (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).

• Anthony & Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Settlement — “Charitable Trusts and Corporate Partners Anthony & Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Settlement” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR JONATHAN PHILIP RICHARDS FRCGPchair
• ANN WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Ravenscroft
• Helen Howson
• RUTH ANNETTE SINFIELD
• Sharon Fernandez
• Sian Taylor

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

Operates in: Caerphilly · Cardiff · Carmarthenshire · Denbighshire · Merthyr Tydfil · Monmouthshire · Neath Port Talbot · Rhondda Cynon Taff · Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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 HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

• HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £242k
• HOME-START CORBY LIMITED income £144k
• HOME-START (TAMWORTH) income £144k
• HOME-START READING income £136k
• HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE income £209k
• SNAP CYMRU income £797k

Side by side with its peers

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