HOME-START RICHMOND, KINGSTON & HOUNSLOW

Registered charity 1108975 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START RICHMOND UPON THAMES

Supporting families with young children.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an annual deficit of £14,128 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus in the previous year. Total income decreased to £496,427, while total expenditure increased slightly to £510,555. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves held at year-end are within the charity's stated policy target of six to nine months of expenditure.

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 05386801

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Richmond, Kingston & Hounslow (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.

• CANNON BROOKES, Lonne Maree — director, appointed 24/01/2024not on trustee list
• GRANT, Anupa Damle — director, appointed 02/11/2022on trustee list
• HOUSTON, Frances — director, appointed 02/11/2022on trustee list
• FERREIRA, Laura — director, appointed 02/11/2022on trustee list
• GOODBRAND, Alison — director, appointed 26/10/2020on trustee list
• BALDWIN, Nancy, Cllr — director, appointed 25/06/2020on trustee list
• ROUGHAN, Gina Vyvyan — director, appointed 29/01/2020on trustee list
• BIDDLE, Rahel — director, appointed 15/11/2018on trustee list
• TOTTMAN, Miranda Jane — director, appointed 04/07/2018on trustee list
• O'CONNOR, Margaret Annette — director, appointed 10/05/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 15.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Goodbrand
• Anupa Damle Grant
• Frances Houston
• Gina Vyvyan Roughan
• Helen Hodges
• Laura Ferreira
• Lonne Cannon Brookes
• Margaret Annette O'Connor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Miranda Jane Tottman
• Nancy Jo Baldwin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rahel Biddle

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

Operates in: Hounslow · Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KINGS HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST (RICHMOND) LIMITED.

• KINGS HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST (RICHMOND) LIMITED income £9.6m
• RICHMOND UPON THAMES MUSIC TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £1.8m
• RICHMOND CHARITIES income £4.9m
• KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES UNITED CHARITIES income £251k
• Richmond Foundation income £2.3m
• HOME-START SUTTON income £284k

Side by side with its peers

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