Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City

Registered charity 1122603 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START STOCKLAND GREEN/ERDINGTON

Volunteer support for families with pre-school children living in the Erdington/Stockland Green area of Birmingham. Families are referred to Home-Start by Health Visitors, Midwives, Social Workers,etc., with the families consent. Volunteers visit families in the families own home for a few hours per week. All volunteers attend a preparation course and have an enhanced criminal record bureau check.

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;WITHIN THE AREA OF STOCKLAND GREEN AND ERDINSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: STOCKLAND GREEN AND ERDINSTON

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 carried forward were £209,570, with unrestricted reserves of £146,520. The trustees report that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months. The charity maintains a specific reserve of £100,136 intended to maintain the scheme for a period of three months in the event of closure.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlene Carter-James
• DAVID EAST
• Emma Jane Daly
• Katie Walters
• LESLEY WILTSHIRE · trustee of 2 other charities
• SANDRA LILIAN RICE
• Susan Patricia Grant

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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Government & lottery funding

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