HOME-START EALING

Registered charity 1109449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home-Start Ealing promotes the welfare of families under stress who have at least one child under 5 years of age. Volunteers offer regular emotional and practical support to families in their own homes, helping to prevent family crisis and breakdown. The charity also runs regular family groups and parenting classes to offer a supportive environment to parents and children in the borough.

Objects

(I) TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES OF KINDS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL SEE FIT;(II) TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;(III) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;(IV) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE AND TO PARTICIPATE IN AND ORGANISE EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES AND CLASSES FOR THE PROMOTION THEREOF OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS IN NEED GENERALLY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. GREATER LONDON

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £25,292 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £36,492. This figure meets the trustees' stated policy target of holding three months of operating costs as unrestricted reserves. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

In the news

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• Ealing Broadway shopping centre names Home-Start Ealing as its new charity partner ealing.news · 11/04/2025

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Crosschair
• Kim Hanif
• Lesley Soden
• NATASHA RAWLEY
• Rebecca Minhas
• Sue Melly
• Swati Mayur Patel
• Tracey Harding
• Virna Alexander

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

Operates in: Ealing

Income and spending

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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 STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START KERNOW income £528k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START LONDON income £195k
• HOME-START CORBY LIMITED income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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