Home-Start Rochdale and Bury

Registered charity 1107258 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START ROCHDALE BOROUGH

Home-Start is a Family Support Charity which supports families with children from birth up to 12 years.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £95,101 at the year end, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £346 for the period, having secured additional funding applications to support its objectives. The trustees confirmed that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05282419

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Rochdale and Bury (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.

• ROBERTS, Christopher — director, appointed 22/07/2021on trustee list
• BUTTERWORTH, Lynn — director, appointed 17/09/2014on trustee list
• WOODS, Margaret — director, appointed 21/09/2009on trustee list
• SMITH, Colin Stuart — director, appointed 10/11/2004on trustee list
• PEARSON, Sharon — secretary, appointed 10/11/2004

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN STUART SMITH
• Christopher Roberts
• LYNN BUTTERWORTH
• MARGARET WOODS

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

Operates in: Bury · Rochdale

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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