HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Registered charity 1106007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT

Home-Start offers volunteer support to families in their own homes, parents supporting parents, helping them to get through a difficult time in their lives: loneliness, isolation, post-natal illness, domestic violence, poverty, inadequate housing, disability, family breakdown.

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 COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGE 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: South Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £405 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £153,045. The trustees note that these reserves are approximately £27,000 below their stated policy target of six months' staffing and office costs. However, the trustees believe the charity can continue as a going concern, citing secured funding and expected fundraising successes.

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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aaron Venableschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chloe Victoria Heath
• Esther Paterson
• Gavin Love
• Janet Man Yin Chapman
• Julia Coghlan
• Margaret Eva Challis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wilhelmina Michaela Maria Holland

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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• HOME-START READING income £136k
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• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START TEESSIDE income £151k
• HOME-START CROYDON income £350k

Side by side with its peers

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