Home-Start Wessex

Registered charity 1109046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START (BOURNEMOUTH & POOLE), HOME-START SOUTH EAST DORSET

Home-Start Wessex is a family support charity that provides vital care to families at a crucial time in their lives. The support is offered to families with at least one child under 5 through individually designed packages of practical and emotional help lasting for around 6 months. This is either provided with one-to-one support in their own homes or through group support and therapy.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £18,072 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £312,289 to £294,217. The trustees maintain unrestricted reserves of £201,717, all of which are designated, to cover known future costs and potential funding shortfalls. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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 05387939

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Wessex (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.

• AVISS, Frances Patricia — director, appointed 18/08/2026on trustee list
• CLARK, Kevin Michael — director, appointed 14/05/2026on trustee list
• ROCHA, Rebecca Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/05/2026on trustee list
• POPE, Caroline Louise — director, appointed 18/02/2026on trustee list
• HEWETT, Belinda Elizabeth — director, appointed 20/01/2026on trustee list
• OWEN, Lesley Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/01/2026on trustee list
• EVANS, Peter Ronald — director, appointed 10/01/2026on trustee list
• STUBBS, John Alan — director, appointed 09/06/2021on trustee list
• WILKES, Rowena Nicola Felicity — director, appointed 02/11/2012on trustee list
• WILSON, Carol — secretary, appointed 30/04/2024

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Belinda Hewett
• Caroline Pope
• Frances Aviss
• John Stubbs
• Kevin Clark
• Lesley Owen
• Peter Evans
• ROWENA NICOLA FELICITY WILKES
• Rebecca Rocha

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START KERNOW income £528k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• Home-Start Warwickshire income £215k
• HOME-START LONDON income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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