HOME-START CHICHESTER & DISTRICT

Registered charity 1123768 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home-Start Chichester & District recruits, trains and monitors volunteers who offer support to families with young children by visiting them in their own home on a regular weekly basis.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: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 CHILD CAREWITHIN THE AREA OF CHICHESTER & DISTRICT AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WEST SUSSEX

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £195,805, which the Trustees consider to be in line with their policy of maintaining six to nine months of operating expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £18,595 for the year and confirmed that resources are adequate to continue operations.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Chichester & District (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANITA THERESE FULTON
• CYNTHIA CHITTY
• GINA MARIE HOLLANDS
• IAN SELLWOOD
• JOHN NASH
• JUDITH GERSHATER
• LISA HALL
• MARGARET ANN JAGO
• PETER JAMES BRACKLEY
• STEVEN TIMOTHY POTTER

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START (COTSWOLDS) LTD.

• HOME-START (COTSWOLDS) LTD income £164k
• HOME-START HORIZONS income £538k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START KERNOW income £528k
• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE income £279k

Side by side with its peers

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