Home-Start Bristol and South Gloucestershire

Registered charity 1116207 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START BRISTOL

To recruit and train volunteers to provide a home visiting service to families in dificulty where there is a child under 5 years old

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 THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN.(D) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE;WITHIN THE AREA OF BRISTOL AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: WITHIN BRISTOL AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a net surplus of £7,734, reversing an initial projection of a large deficit. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £186,725, which the trustees note represents six months of expected expenditure. The trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the accounts 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 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Bristol and South Gloucestershire (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Pachon
• Catherine Potter
• Claire Gazard
• David Leech
• Karen Gazzard
• LINDA DIANA HUNTER
• Marcus Roberts

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

Operates in: Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

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 MANCHESTER.

• HOME-START MANCHESTER income £827k
• HOME-START READING income £136k
• HOME-START CROYDON income £350k
• HOME-START CHICHESTER & DISTRICT income £291k
• Home-Start Bedfordshire income £213k
• HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE income £209k

Side by side with its peers

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