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Registered charity 1146356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

WE ARE A CHARITY THAT PROVIDES HELP AND SUPPORT TO FAMILIES IN THEIR OWN HOMES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN, THROUGH A VOLUNTEER SERVICE.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received £133,986 from the National Lottery Community Fund for core work and £22,944 from SGN Fuelling Futures, alongside smaller grants and donations. The trustees report that the future looks bright and stable, noting the recent securing of further lottery funding for 2025–2028. No specific unrestricted reserves figure or reserves policy target is explicitly stated in the provided text.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07952821

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.

• SINCLAIR TAYLOR, Francesca — director, appointed 25/01/2021not on trustee list
• HODGES, Tracy — director, appointed 08/10/2018on trustee list
• NEW, Sylvia Ann — director, appointed 07/12/2015on trustee list
• WHITE, Christine Anne — director, appointed 16/02/2012on trustee list
• MCCOLL, Allison — secretary, appointed 30/06/2021

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE WHITE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Francesca Sinclair Taylor
• SYLVIA NEW
• Tracy Hodges

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).