HOME-START NORTH SOMERSET

Registered charity 1111549 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We recruit train and support home visiting volunteers to support vulnerable families with at least one child under 5yrs in North Somerset

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 CHILD CARE;WITHIN THE AREA OF NORTH SOMERSET AND ITS ENVIRONS

Area of benefit: WITHIN THE AREA OF NORTH SOMERSET AND ITS ENVIRONS

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £7,456 for the year ended March 31, 2025, compared to a surplus in the previous year. The trustees have proposed the charity's closure by January 2026 following unsuccessful merger discussions, though they maintain that the current cash buffer is sufficient to cover liabilities upon cessation.

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 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daljit Sidebottom
• Diane Scarborough
• Nicole Day

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

Operates in: North Somerset

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE.

• HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE income £279k
• Home-Start Bristol and South Gloucestershire income £337k
• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START NEWCASTLE BOROUGH income £149k
• HOME-START BIRMINGHAM SOUTH income £140k
• HOME-START (COTSWOLDS) LTD income £164k

Side by side with its peers

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