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.

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 CHILDCAREWITHIN THE AREA OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: RICHMOND UPON THAMES 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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Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05386801 · Financial health read from its filings

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 31/03/2026)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (53% 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: 15.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (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
• 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

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

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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 HOME-START ASHFORD & DISTRICT.

• HOME-START ASHFORD & DISTRICT income £278k
• HOME-START BARNET income £647k
• HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE income £209k
• HOME-START SUTTON income £284k
• HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £242k
• HOME-START DUDLEY income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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