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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£418k
Latest spending
£438k
Registered
2004
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £19,951 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £395,991. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £362,703, with £129,333 available for use after excluding £233,370 designated for potential closure costs. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

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.

Official officers record.

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£418k£438k
31/03/2024£415k£380k
31/03/2023£474k£512k
31/03/2022£356k£448k
31/03/2021£494k£435k

Common questions

Is HOME-START NORFOLK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £19,951 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £395,991. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £362,703, with £129,333 available for use after excluding £233,370 designated for potential closure costs. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HOME-START NORFOLK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOME-START NORFOLK as a grant recipient include THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATION, THE ELLERDALE TRUST, THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUST, SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATIONFY2024£20k
THE ELLERDALE TRUSTFY2025£6k
THE ELLERDALE TRUSTFY2023£6k
THE ELLERDALE TRUSTFY2022£5k
THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATIONFY2023£5k
THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUSTFY2025£3kMount Fund - Community Youth Services
THE ELLERDALE TRUSTFY2024£3k
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£2kAnn Rylands Small Donations

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
UK government21/03/2025£120kArmed Forces Charities (Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust) FY24/25
Postcode Lottery01/05/2023£19kProject Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund14/03/2022£140kRight from the Start - our impact and Covid

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 NORTH WILTSHIRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HOME-START NORFOLK£418k—0unclear—no doubt
HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE FY2025£279kUnder £50,0000above—no doubt
HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE FY2025£270k—0unclear—no doubt
HOME-START NEWCASTLE BOROUGH FY2025£149kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER FY2025£434k—0above—no doubt
HOME-START KERNOW FY2025£528k—0within—no doubt

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