HOME-START HORIZONS

Registered charity 1108455 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START LEICESTER, HOME-START LEICESTER, MELTON AND RUTLAND

Home-start provides a unique service; recruiting and training volunteers to offer families informal, friendly and confidential support. Home-Start works with parents on a one to one basis in their own home, building supportive relationships and responding directly to the family's individual needs. We provide support through family groups and virtual support.

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 LEICESTER, LECIESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £121,435 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £311,597. The trustees report that this reserves level is adequate and commensurate with their policy target of holding four months of budgeted expenditure plus the pension fund liability. The charity's gross income increased to £538,100 from £399,930 in the prior year, driven by expanded commissioned services and grants.

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
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 06/03/2023, 34 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Home-Start Horizons launches Dad Matters service across Leicestershire inyourarea.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05352252

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Homestart Horizons (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund Reaching Communities program strengthens communities which come together to improve health and create in…” (source page)
• Henry Smith Foundation — “The Henry Smith Foundation funds Home-Start Horizons through our work with early years parenting support and promoting children’s developmen…” (source page)
• BBC Children in Need — “The BBC Children in Need fund is dedicated to helping to improve children’s lives in the UK. Thanks to the fund and the generous people that…” (source page)
• Armed Forces Covenant — “The Armed Forces Covenant is a charity and non-departmental public body that funds projects across the UK serving the armed forces communit…” (source page)
• Leicester City Council Family Hubs — “Leicester City Council Family Hubs provide essential support for families with children and young people, offering a variety of services and…” (source page)
• Masonic Charitable Foundation — “The Masonic Charitable Foundation has generously supported Home-Start Horizons for the next three years. Funded entirely by the Freemasons, …” (source page)
• People’s Postcode Lottery — “Home-Start Horizons have been delighted to be the recipients of two donations from the People’s Postcode Lottery Millionaire Street fund. We…” (source page)
• 29 th May 1961 Charitable Trust — “This list includes the 29 th May 1961 Charitable Trust which funds our group support sessions” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation that provides core funding to enable us to keep our charity running” (source page)
• Mabs Mardulyn Charitable Fund — “Mabs Mardulyn Charitable Fund which generously donates year on year towards our mothers in mind programme supporting women with postnatal de…” (source page)
• Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation — “Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation which has funded our dads support project” (source page)
• The Florence Turner Trust — “The Florence Turner Trust, the Paget Trust, the Fitton Trust, The Rutland Trust, the J Reginald Corah Foundation and many more that donate o…” (source page)
• the Paget Trust — “The Florence Turner Trust, the Paget Trust, the Fitton Trust, The Rutland Trust, the J Reginald Corah Foundation and many more that donate o…” (source page)
• the Fitton Trust — “The Florence Turner Trust, the Paget Trust, the Fitton Trust, The Rutland Trust, the J Reginald Corah Foundation and many more that donate o…” (source page)
• The Rutland Trust — “The Florence Turner Trust, the Paget Trust, the Fitton Trust, The Rutland Trust, the J Reginald Corah Foundation and many more that donate o…” (source page)

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.

• WALES, Nicholas — director, appointed 24/05/2026on trustee list
• OTTLEY, Ruth Elizabeth — director, appointed 30/01/2026on trustee list
• GOMES, June Audrey Anna — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• TRUEMPER, Happy — director, appointed 01/12/2023not on trustee list
• PETTITT, Louise Ann — director, appointed 02/08/2022on trustee list
• AKROYD, Paul Adrian — director, appointed 26/09/2019on trustee list
• MACMANARD, Elaine — secretary, appointed 16/11/2009

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SEAN TIZZARDchair
• Louise Pettitt
• Nicholas Wales
• Paul Akroyd
• Ruth Ottley

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire · Rutland

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE.

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• HOME-START UK income £5.2m

Side by side with its peers

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