HOME-START CHESHIRE

Registered charity 1112270 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME START CENTRAL CHESHIRE, HOME-START CENTRAL & WEST CHESHIRE

We support families in their homes by carefully selecting and training volunteers. They are matched to a family who are experiencing difficulties and who have at least one child under 5 years and offer practical, emotional support and friendship for 3 - 4 hours a week.

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 CAREWITHIN THE AREA OF CHESHIRE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: CHESHIRE 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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£250k
Latest spending
£249k
Registered
2005

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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)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2020

  • Volunteers: 122

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2019

  • Volunteers: 145

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2018

  • Volunteers: 91
  • Government income: £59,100 — contracts £59,100; 31% of the £191,450 total gross income on the same return

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

5 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
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Common questions

Who funds HOME-START CHESHIRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOME-START CHESHIRE as a grant recipient include ALEX TIMPSON TRUST, THE SWALLOW TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ALEX TIMPSON TRUSTFY2022£40kGrant
THE SWALLOW TRUSTFY2021£5k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund09/09/2015£391kCIRCLE Project (Community Involvement to Raise Confidence Life-skills
The National Lottery Community Fund18/04/2012£178kHome-Start's First Response
The National Lottery Community Fund13/12/2011£900kL I F T - Lets Improve our Future Together
The National Lottery Community Fund29/09/2011£9kHome-Start Parenting Pals
The National Lottery Community Fund22/06/2011£10kL I F T - Lets Improve our Future Together
The National Lottery Community Fund25/02/2010£9kHome-Start Central Cheshire Volunteer Recruitment Project
The National Lottery Community Fund22/08/2007£10kHome-Start Central Cheshire