HOME-START WALSALL

Registered charity 1112680 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Trained parent-parent home-visiting, befriending support for parents who are facing stress or difficulty through the early years of parenting.

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 WALSALL AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: WALSALL 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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has made a net expenditure of £33,722 for the year, resulting in negative unrestricted funds of £67,309. The trustees have disclosed material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue, having decided to close the charity on 28 November 2025 due to funding challenges and recruitment difficulties. Consequently, the financial statements are prepared with the expectation of cessation rather than ongoing operations.

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

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sue Fox

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

Operates in: Walsall

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 NORFOLK.

• HOME-START NORFOLK income £457k
• HOME-START TEESSIDE income £151k
• HOME-START HIGH PEAK income £91k
• HOME-START PORTSMOUTH income £902k
• HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £242k
• HOME-START WYRE FOREST income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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