HOME-START WORLDWIDE

Registered charity 1139678 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HSW

Home-Start provides informal, friendly, confidential, non-judgmental and free support to families with young children through networks of trained parent volunteers. Home-Start Worldwide works worldwide through partnerships with local organisations to develop Home-Start schemes. In rich and poor communities, in 22 countries on five continents, Home-Start reaches out to families in need.

Objects

1.1. TO SAFEGUARD AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS, PARENTS AND PRIMARY CARERS;1.2. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONG CHILDREN, THEIR FAMILIES AND/OR PRIMARY CARERS;1.2 TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;1.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PARENTS AND THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILDCARE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

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

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure of £13,038 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £70,565. The trustees acknowledge that funding constraints are a serious challenge, noting that the current state cannot be sustained and that chronic funding issues threaten the charity's existence over the medium term. Despite this, the trustees consider the level of income and assets sufficient to continue activities for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 04/11/2026, 4 days after the 31/10/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 04/11/2024, 4 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Jacqueline Barneschair
• Anthonius Gerardus Kragten
• Federica Gullo
• Joan van Niekerk
• Kate Grantham
• Kathleen Mary Wilkinson Grantham
• Oliver Hickson
• Ricky Maloney
• Yukie Yamada

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

Operates in: City Of London

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 UK.

• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START READING income £136k
• HOME-START EPSOM, EWELL & BANSTEAD income £220k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START NORTH WEST KENT LTD income £125k
• HOME-START LONDON income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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