HOME-START WELLINGBOROUGH & DISTRICT

Registered charity 1114076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home-Start Wellingborough & district is a voluntary organisation in which volunteers offer support, friendship & practical help to families who have at least one child under the age of five and who are experiencing difficulties.

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 THE BOROUGH OF WELLINGBOROUGH AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF WELLINBOROUGH 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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £19,255 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £95,638 to £76,383. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at the equivalent of just over four months of revenue expenditure, which is within the stated policy target of maintaining approximately six months. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Investment
• 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)

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annie Lennox
• Felix Barth
• Gita Carlisle
• JULIET SMITH
• Jean Berkshire
• Julian Payne
• Kate Geoghegan

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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• HOME-START READING income £136k
• HOME-START WEST BERKSHIRE income £232k
• HOME-START COUNTY BOROUGH OF WREXHAM income £297k
• HOME-START KETTERING AREA income £118k
• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START BRADFORD DISTRICT income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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