HOME-START STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS

Registered charity 1135201 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

HOME-START STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS IS A VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION COMMITTED TO PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN. VOLUNTEERS OFFER REGULAR SUPPORT, FRIENDSHIP AND PRACTICAL HELP TO FAMILIES UNDER STRESS IN THEIR OWN HOMES AND/OR IN GROUP SITUATIONS, HELPING TO PREVENT FAMILY CRISIS AND BREAKDOWN.

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 CARE; PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE AREA OF STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS AND ITS ENVIRONS ('THE AREA OF BENEFIT')

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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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Registered contact address: Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity is preparing its financial statements on a cessation basis, with operations expected to cease on 30 June 2026. Unrestricted reserves of £30,270 are held, which the trustees confirm are sufficient to cover all anticipated winding-up costs, including statutory redundancies and pension withdrawal debts.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2025) → not a going concern (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07167797

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.

• THOMPSON, Elizabeth — director, appointed 15/04/2025on trustee list
• ARMSTRONG, Jane — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• WHITFIELD, Angela — director, appointed 28/11/2024on trustee list
• STEELE, Carol — director, appointed 15/02/2022on trustee list
• BENNETT, Julie Anne — director, appointed 09/03/2021on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Gareth Andrew Howard — director, appointed 30/11/2020on trustee list
• STEELE, Carol — secretary, appointed 02/06/2026

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julie Anne Bennettchair
• ANGELA WHITFIELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Steele
• Elizabeth Thompson
• Gareth Andrew Howard Edwards
• Jane Armstrong

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE.

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• HOME-START SOUTHPORT & FORMBY income £172k
• HOME-START CROYDON income £350k

Side by side with its peers

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