HOME - START RUNNYMEDE AND WOKING

Registered charity 1128932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START WOKING

To support parents with young families in the Boroughs of Woking & Runnymede who are struggling to cope. Reasons may include physical or mental illness, isolation, bereavement or multiple births. Home visiting volunteers provide non-judgemental, practical and emotional support and help to build the family's confidence and ability to cope.

Objects

A TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDRENB TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDRENC TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREND TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CAREWITHIN THE AREAS OF WOKING AND ITS ENVIRONSC TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREND TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CAREWITHIN THE AREA OF WOKING AND ITS ENVIRONS

Area of benefit: WOKING 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 recorded a loss for the year of £9,092, with total expenditure of £177,530 exceeding income of £168,438. Reserves at the end of the year totalled £103,580, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six months' running costs. The trustees note that the year saw a return to some degree of financial stability after prior extreme challenges, though income was down year on year.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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 05618486

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

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.

• DONALD, Claire Mary Sarah — director, appointed 22/06/2026on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Victoria Joanne — director, appointed 15/06/2026on trustee list
• SLIWINSKI, Richard John — director, appointed 15/06/2026on trustee list
• VERMA, Sukriti — director, appointed 13/06/2026on trustee list
• ROCHE, Alison Jane — director, appointed 09/01/2026on trustee list
• EVANS, Sally Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/09/2024on trustee list
• NIEBIESZCZANSKI, Gemma — director, appointed 14/01/2022on trustee list
• POUND, Trevor Hilton — director, appointed 25/01/2016on trustee list
• MCKENZIE, Joanna — director, appointed 03/11/2014on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Michael — director, appointed 08/03/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Jane Roche · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Mary Sarah Donald
• Gemma Niebieszczanski
• JOANNA MCKENZIE
• MICHAEL GRIFFITHS
• Richard John Sliwinski
• Sally Elizabeth Evans
• Sukriti Verma
• Trevor Pound
• Victoria Joanne Williams

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Warwickshire.

• Home-Start Warwickshire income £215k
• HOME-START KERNOW income £528k
• HOME-START WOKINGHAM DISTRICT income £105k
• HOME-START WINCHESTER AND DISTRICTS income £152k
• HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE income £279k
• HOME-START (COTSWOLDS) LTD income £164k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.