HOME-START BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL AND SOUTH-WEST

Registered charity 1114963 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START BARTLEY GREEN AND QUINTON

Home-Start Birmingham Central and South-West is a voluntary organisation which supports families with at least one child under five through difficult times. Home-Start through trained parent volunteers offers befriending and emotional and practical support to families in the Bartley Green, Edgbaston, Harborne, Ladywood, Soho and Quinton wards of the city.

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 CHILDCARE; WITHIN THE AREAS OF BARTLEY GREEN AND QUINTON WARDS AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: BARTLEY GREEN AND QUINTON WARDS

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £65,799 for the year, with total income exceeding £239,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintained a strong financial position despite statutory funding being halved, resulting in expenditure increasing by only 0.5% while supporting 31% more families. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £74,603 and has no stated reserves policy target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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)

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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 31/03/2022 (received 06/02/2023, 6 days after the 31/01/2023 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

• Lisa Carpenter
• Paramjit Mattu
• Shelo Begum
• Stephen Hall
• Steven Reid

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 Birmingham North and Inner City.

• Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City income £294k
• Home-Start Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham income £598k
• HOME-START READING income £136k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START BIRMINGHAM-NORTH WEST income £249k
• HOME-START COUNTY BOROUGH OF WREXHAM income £297k

Side by side with its peers

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