HOME-START SOUTHERN OXFORDSHIRE

Registered charity 1113941 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home-Start is a voluntary home-visiting scheme for families with pre-school children who may be under stress and experiencing difficulties. Volunteers offer regular support to the families in their own homes.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are:(a) to safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical, of children and parents/carers of children;(b) to prevent cruelty to or maltreatment of children;(c) to relieve sickness, poverty and need amongst children and parents/carers of children;(d) to promote the education of the public in better standards of child carewithin the area of southern Oxfordshire and its environs.

Area of benefit: SOUTHERN OXFORDSHIRE 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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £58,000.94 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted income of £230,210.96. Per the Treasurer’s report, free reserves stood at £152,662.03, representing approximately 8.6 months of budgeted expenditure, while the charity maintains a designated reserve of £41,000 for pension and closure liabilities.

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
• Investing charity funds 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABIGAIL HELEN ELIZABETH REYNOLDS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Grandison
• Janet Rimmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Greatrex
• Robert Fraser · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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