HOME-START SOUTH AND WEST DEVON LTD

Registered charity 1108077 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START SOUTH HAMS, HOME-START SOUTH HAMS, PLYMOUTH AND TAVISTOCK

The principal object is to safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical of children and parents of children. This is achieved by the home family support of families in need with at least one child under 12 working with volunteers. Its area of work is defined as within Plymouth, Torbay, South Hams and West Devon.

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 WITHIN THE AREA OF SOUTH HAMS AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: SOUTH HAMS AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is governed by a Board of Directors and has adopted the Charities SORP 2019. The filing notes that the charity has no share capital and is a registered charity with the Charity Commission. The document does not provide specific financial figures for reserves, income, or expenditure to assess financial health further.

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.

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start South & West Devon (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne May-Somerville Mrs
• Barbara Watson
• Diane Jones
• Lorraine Fletcher Obonyo
• Mary Alice Tayler
• Stuart Harris Mr

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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