HOME-START UK

Registered charity 1108837 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START, HOME-START CONSULTANCY · also registered in Scotland as SC039172 (OSCR)

Home-Start offers informal and friendly support to families with young children, providing a lifeline to thousands of parents and children in around 300 communities across the UK, and with forces families in Germany and Cyprus.Support is free, confidential and non-judgemental, and the quality of this is maintained with local schemes working to national standards.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN OR PARENTS IN DESPAIR AND DISTRESS AND THE PREVENTION OF EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE OF SUCH CHILDRENANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · 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 reported a surplus of £665k for the year, with total income rising 36% to £5.24m. Free reserves stood at £1.75m, which is just below the stated target of £1.76m but above the minimum threshold of £1.24m. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: HOME-START CONSULTANCY LIMITED Companies House 02810260
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05382181

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start UK (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).

• Postcode Lottery — “Funding from Postcode Lottery players enables Home-Start UK to provide vital support across our national network, helping to strengthen fami…” (source page)
• Pears Foundation — “Pears Foundation is a generous supporter of Home-Start; most recently investing 750,000 in our Compassionate Communities project to strength…” (source page)
• The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts — “We're delighted to receive continued support from the Headley Trust and the Tedworth Charitable Trust.” (source page)
• Comic Relief — “Comic Relief is generously supporting Home-Start UK’s work to grow inclusive practice across the network.” (source page)
• The Henry Smith Charity — “The Henry Smith Charity is a generous supporter of our local Home-Start network with an emphasis on improving lives in local communities.” (source page)
• BBC Children in Need — “BBC Children In Need are generous supporters of our local Home-Start network across the UK.” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund is a generous supporters of our local Home-Start network across the UK.” (source page)
• The Army Central Fund — “The Army Central Fund is a generous supporter of our local Home-Start network across the UK.” (source page)
• Corra Foundation — “We acknowledge the support of the Scottish Government through a CYPFEIF and ALEC Fund Grant.” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “As well as being a generous funder to the network, Garfield Weston Foundation support Home-Start UK’s work developing volunteering.” (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.

• WAHEED, Faiza — director, appointed 20/03/2024on trustee list
• SPENCE, Tara — director, appointed 20/03/2024on trustee list
• DUXBURY, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 20/03/2024on trustee list
• WILMSHURST, Euan — director, appointed 20/03/2024on trustee list
• SIFFEL, Gyongyi — director, appointed 08/12/2021on trustee list
• AYIVOR, Raymond — director, appointed 08/12/2021on trustee list
• HINNIGAN, Lin — director, appointed 14/09/2021on trustee list
• GOLLEDGE, Natalie — secretary, appointed 01/02/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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: 12.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lin Hinniganchair
• Euan Wilmshurst · trustee of 4 other charities
• Faiza Waheed
• Gyongyi Siffel
• Raymond Ayivor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Duxbury
• Tara Spence

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Euan Wilmshurst — trustee here and at THE LEADSOM FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 LONDON income £195k
• Home-Start Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham income £598k
• HOME-START EPSOM, EWELL & BANSTEAD income £220k
• HOME-START WORLDWIDE income £38k

Side by side with its peers

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