HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER

Registered charity 1107019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START STROUD & DURSLEY, HOME-START STROUD DISTRICT

Home-Start is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under five years of age. Volunteers offer regualr support, friendship and practical help to families under stress in their own homes helping to prevent family crisis and 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.

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTERSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £21,760 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward increasing to £115,575. The trustees consider the unrestricted reserves of £100,000 (as stated in the financial review section, though the balance sheet shows £115,575) to be sufficient to cover running expenses and liabilities. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts were prepared in accordance with applicable standards and no matters were identified that would cause concern regarding the financial statements.

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 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
• 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 05282509 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• JAMES, Rosanna — director, appointed 27/06/2025on trustee list
• CORFIELD, Daniel — director, appointed 04/07/2024on trustee list
• COWLING, Leighann Mary — director, appointed 04/07/2024on trustee list
• PASCOE, Colin Roy — director, appointed 20/07/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Pascoe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Corfield
• Leighann Cowling
• Rosanna James

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

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 NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START READING income £136k
• HOME-START GOOLE & DISTRICT income £182k
• HOME-START (HULL) income £283k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• Home-Start Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham income £598k

Side by side with its peers

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