HOME-START IN WAVERLEY

Registered charity 1119141 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START FARNHAM AND HASLEMERE

Home-Start in Waverley offers support to parents with young children within the borough of Waverley and its environs. Volunteers, who are parents themselves, are recruited and trained to visit families with at least one child under five, at home, and offer them informed, friendly and confidential support

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; AND(D) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF WAVERLEY AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF WAVERLEY 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 total funds increased to £124,033, with unrestricted reserves standing at £124,033. The trustees report that the charity maintained a strong support service despite a challenging funding marketplace and economic pressures, noting they were 'just short of our planned budget figure' by year-end.

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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06069732

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JAMES, Marie-Louise Louise — director, appointed 25/06/2026on trustee list
• ROOTH, Anthony — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• HILL-SMITH, Elizabeth Carol — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• FERGUSON, Robert Thomas Mark — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• PIERSIMONI, Nunzia — director, appointed 12/10/2015on trustee list
• BARRAT, Lyndley Kay — director, appointed 26/01/2007on trustee list
• TANN, Ann Marise — director, appointed 26/01/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN MARISE TANN
• Anthony Rooth
• Elizabeth Hill-Smith
• LYNDLEY KAY BARRAT
• Marie-Louise James · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nunzia Piersimoni
• Robert Ferguson

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE income £279k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START EAST SURREY income £224k
• HOME-START SOUTH WILTSHIRE income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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