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.

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 CHILD CARE.WITHIN THE AREA OF MIDDLETON, HEYWOOD, PENNINES AND ROCHDALE AND ITS ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: LANCASHIRE

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 · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rochdale, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2022 (received 14/03/2024, 166 days after the 30/09/2023 due date); year ending 30/11/2020 (received 05/10/2021, 5 days after the 30/09/2021 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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).

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 READING.

• HOME-START READING income £136k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START (HULL) income £283k
• Home-Start in East Lancashire income £391k
• HOME-START COUNTY BOROUGH OF WREXHAM income £297k

Side by side with its peers

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