HOME-START PORTSMOUTH

Registered charity 1124943 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home-Start Portsmouth offers a unique service to parents (with at least one child under school age) through the provision of trained and supervised volunteers who visit families in their own home and through professionally run family groups both of which offer regular, informal support, friendship and practical help.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £92,287 for the year, resulting in a deficit in unrestricted funds of £30,190. Per the trustees' report, total income decreased to £961,109 while charitable expenditure increased to £1,053,395, largely driven by higher salary costs. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon John Benfieldchair
• Alison Mary Gilbert Cordwell
• Andrew John Osborn
• Bev Vaughan
• Hugh Jonathan Crutchfield
• Joanne Kate Goodship
• Linda Vivienne Jenkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Claire Bland
• Tarnia Simmons

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

Operates in: Portsmouth City

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Linda Vivienne Jenkins — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT SIMON, SOUTHSEA.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).