HOME-START BIRMINGHAM SOUTH

Registered charity 1114872 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START NORTHFIELD

We offer support and friendship to families experiencing difficulties with at least one child under five. We prepare volunteers who all have parenting experience to visit families in their own homes to offer support and friendship. The volunteers support will be wide and varied and will be between 1 hour - 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 CHLORDANE;D TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CAREWITHIN THE AREA OF NORTHFIELD AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, BIRMINGHAM.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the financial situation is becoming more difficult due to the loss of Local Authority investment from Birmingham Forward Steps, with services scheduled for decommissioning in March 2027. The charity notes it needs to raise further funds to continue operations, relying on grants, donations, and volunteer support to maintain services. No specific financial figures for reserves or income are provided in the text.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-start Birmingham South (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE PASCAL
• Jean-Luc Oliveira-Priez · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR TONY GUEST FCCA
• SANDRA WALTON
• VIVIENNE ANN MILLER

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START COLE VALLEY.

• HOME-START COLE VALLEY income £149k
• Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City income £294k
• HOME-START BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL AND SOUTH-WEST income £239k
• HOME-START BIRMINGHAM CONSORTIUM income £508k
• HOME-START LAMBETH income £224k
• HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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