Home-Start HOST
Registered charity 1135838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START OLDHAM STOCKPORT AND TAMESIDE, HOME-START TAMESIDE, HOME-START TAMESIDE & OLDHAM
Home-Start HOST provides a range of support to families in Oldham, Stockport, Tameside and Bolton, largely through volunteer home visiting support for families with a wide range of needs. Additional services include parent infant mental health support, infant feeding peer support, speech & language development and support for dads in the perinatal period.
Causes: 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 deficit of £89,746 for the year ended 31 March 2025, partly due to funding received in advance. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that unrestricted free reserves of £853,242 are held, which they consider sufficient to cover approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure (held: £853k)
“The trustees aim to maintain free reserves in unrestricted funds at a level which equates to approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure.” — page 2
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by McKellens Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start HOST (matched by registered charity number).
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£24k
Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (26/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (21/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (26/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Karen Ann Rosechair
- Cllr Tafheen Sharif
- Dr Shaid Mushtaq
- GEOFFREY Paul THOMAS
- Josie Rebecca Bades
- Katrina Erica Fletcher
- Mary Katherine Elizabeth Mitchell
- Susan Anne Wood
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bolton · Oldham · Stockport · Tameside
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Home-Start HOST financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £89,746 for the year ended 31 March 2025, partly due to funding received in advance. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that unrestricted free reserves of £853,242 are held, which they consider sufficient to cover approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by McKellens Limited.
Who funds Home-Start HOST?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Home-Start HOST as a grant recipient include THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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