HOME-START NORFOLK

Registered charity 1106362 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START NORWICH

Recruiting and training volunteers to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 to offer support and friendship.

Objects

4 Objects 4.1 The objects of the Charity are: 4.1.1 to safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical, of children and parents/carers of children; 4.1.2 to prevent cruelty to or maltreatment of children; 4.1.3 to relieve sickness, poverty and need amongst children and parents/carers of children; 4.1.4 to promote the education of the public in better standards of child care; principally but not exclusively within the area of Norfolk and its environs.

Area of benefit: NORWICH 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Breckland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £17,353 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £457,197 and expenditure of £474,550. Unrestricted reserves stood at £334,067, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £243,673. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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
• 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 05196432

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

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.

• TULLY, Helen Anne — director, appointed 30/04/2026on trustee list
• SMITH, Natalie Olivia — director, appointed 30/10/2025on trustee list
• HECTOR, Matthew — director, appointed 13/11/2024on trustee list
• MCDOUGALL-RICHARDS, Claire — director, appointed 25/07/2024on trustee list
• MILLAR, Anita Caroline — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• STABLER, Lynne Jannette — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• LEFEVRE, David Andrew — director, appointed 30/09/2021on trustee list
• GOTTS, Natalie Frances — secretary, appointed 30/11/2023

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/08/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lynne Jannette Stablerchair
• Anita Caroline Millar
• Claire McDougall-Richards
• David Lefevre
• Frances Fairbairn-Harvey
• Helen Tully
• Matthew Hector
• Niall Alexander McClelland

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 NORTH SOMERSET.

• HOME-START NORTH SOMERSET income £126k
• HOME-START NEWCASTLE BOROUGH income £149k
• HOME-START NORTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE income £143k
• HOME-START ASHFORD & DISTRICT income £278k
• HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE income £279k
• HOME-START RICHMOND, KINGSTON & HOUNSLOW income £589k

Side by side with its peers

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