HOME-START SURREY HEATH

Registered charity 1114199 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides support to families with at least one child under five years of age, who are undergoing stress or difficulties for any reason. Training, support and supervision is provided to home-visiting volunteers, who visit the referred families in their home for 2-3 hours per week. Managed by paid office staff under the supervision of a board of trustees.

Objects

1. TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;2. TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;3. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;4. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE WITH THE AREA OF SURREY HEATH AND ITS ENVIRONS

Area of benefit: SURREY HEATH 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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £46,128 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £121,223 to £75,095. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £37,352 against a stated policy target of six months' operating costs. The charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Surrey Heath (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Reynolds
• CHRISTINE FOSTER
• Dr Andrew Mint
• John Sinclair Lovell
• Jonathan Richard Virgoe
• Richard Julian Hamilton
• Zara Martin

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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