HOME-START NORTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE

Registered charity 1112233 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START CLERE, Home-Start North West Hampshire Trading as Home-Start Basingstoke and Deane Ltd

SUPPORT AND BEFRIENDING AND ADVICE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN BY VOLUNTEERS.

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 CHILDCARE WITHIN THE AREA OF NORTH WEST HAMPSHIRE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: NORTH WEST HAMPSHIRE 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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Basingstoke and Deane, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£143k
Latest spending
£128k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £14,566 for the year ended 31 March 2025, improving from a deficit in the previous year. Free reserves stood at £53,683, which exceeds the trustees' designated reserves policy target of approximately three months of running costs plus closure costs (£47,000). The trustees note that the funding position improved due to secured multi-year funding, supporting ongoing financial sustainability.

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 4 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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 47

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 60

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 56
  • Government income: £10,000 — grants £10,000 (1); 6% of the £168,723 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£143k£128k
31/03/2024£142k£165k
31/03/2023£169k£170k
31/03/2022£144k£150k
31/03/2021£126k£131k

Common questions

Is HOME-START NORTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £14,566 for the year ended 31 March 2025, improving from a deficit in the previous year. Free reserves stood at £53,683, which exceeds the trustees' designated reserves policy target of approximately three months of running costs plus closure costs (£47,000). The trustees note that the funding position improved due to secured multi-year funding, supporting ongoing financial sustainability. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HOME-START NORTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOME-START NORTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE as a grant recipient include MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, THE GROCERS' CHARITY.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2025£3k
THE GROCERS' CHARITYFY2025£2kRelief of Poverty
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2024£700

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund12/01/2024£15kHome-visiting volunteer management
The National Lottery Community Fund08/07/2022£6kYoung Parents Group
The National Lottery Community Fund27/01/2021£181kMental Health Support in a Family Setting Continuation
The National Lottery Community Fund28/06/2018£10kOffice relocation
The National Lottery Community Fund19/11/2009£3kFamily Room Equipment
The National Lottery Community Fund13/11/2007£10kBasingstoke Expansion Start-Up

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 SOUTH WEST KENT.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HOME-START NORTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE£143k—0unclear—no doubt
HOME-START SOUTH WEST KENT FY2025£189k—0above—no doubt
HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE FY2025£209k—0unclear—no doubt
HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE FY2025£270k—0unclear—no doubt
Home-Start Bristol and South Gloucestershire FY2025£337k—0unclear—no doubt
HOME-START NORFOLK FY2026£457k—0unclear—no doubt

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