HOME-START CRAVEN

Registered charity 1138830 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

INCREASE THE CONFIDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE OF VULNERABLE FAMILIES BUILDING STRONG AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL NETWORKS, HARNESSING THE VOLUNTEER CAPACITY WITHIN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. FAMILIES, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THEIR VOLUNTEER ARE MORE LIKELY TO ACCESS HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES, DEVELOP THEIR PARENTING SKILLS, GROW IN CONFIDENCE AND BE MORE ABLE TO ACCESS ACTIVITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES.

Objects

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 CRAVEN AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: CRAVEN.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £58,388, while the charity reported a net deficit of £41,642 for the year. The trustees note that the funding environment is challenging and the charity's ongoing viability is dependent on securing successful bids from external funders in the coming 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 4 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2021 (received 09/08/2022, 70 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07301263

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Postcode Lottery — “Funding from Postcode Lottery players enables Home-Start UK to provide vital support across our national network, helping to strengthen fami…” (source page)
• Pears Foundation — “Pears Foundation is a generous supporter of Home-Start; most recently investing 750,000 in our Compassionate Communities project to strength…” (source page)
• The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts — “We're delighted to receive continued support from the Headley Trust and the Tedworth Charitable Trust.” (source page)
• Comic Relief — “Comic Relief is generously supporting Home-Start UK’s work to grow inclusive practice across the network.” (source page)
• The Henry Smith Charity — “The Henry Smith Charity is a generous supporter of our local Home-Start network with an emphasis on improving lives in local communities.” (source page)
• BBC Children in Need — “BBC Children In Need are generous supporters of our local Home-Start network across the UK.” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund is a generous supporters of our local Home-Start network across the UK.” (source page)
• The Army Central Fund — “The Army Central Fund is a generous supporter of our local Home-Start network across the UK.” (source page)
• Corra Foundation — “We acknowledge the support of the Scottish Government through a CYPFEIF and ALEC Fund Grant.” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “As well as being a generous funder to the network, Garfield Weston Foundation support Home-Start UK’s work developing volunteering.” (source page)

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.

• HULL, Leah Rebecca — director, appointed 26/06/2023on trustee list
• HOPKINS, Tracy — director, appointed 31/05/2023on trustee list
• RICKERBY, Christopher — director, appointed 11/07/2022on trustee list
• OSMOND, Gillian — director, appointed 16/09/2020on trustee list
• BROTHERTON, Graham — director, appointed 20/11/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Rickerby
• Claire Beck
• Claire Morris
• Gillian Osmond
• Graham Brotherton
• Leah Rebecca Hull
• Tracy Hopkins
• Victoria Court

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE CRAVEN TRUST.

• THE CRAVEN TRUST income £38k
• HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £242k
• HOME-START BLACKBURN & DARWEN income £255k
• HOME-START HEREFORDSHIRE income £209k
• HOME-START MANCHESTER income £827k
• HOME-START (TAMWORTH) income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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