HOME-START EPSOM, EWELL & BANSTEAD

Registered charity 1156539 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START EPSOM,EWELL & BANSTEAD

Home-Start offers support, friendship and practical help to parents in local communities throughout the UK, and with British Forces in Germany and Cyprus.Home-Start offers a unique service, recruiting and training volunteers who are usually parents themselves , to visit families at home who have at least one child under 5 and offer informal , friendly and confidential support.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: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 EPSOM, EWELL AND BANSTEAD AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £57,191, which represents approximately 59% of its historic annual expenditure. The trustees maintain a policy of holding reserves equivalent to six months of expenditure and report that they remain confident in ensuring an orderly rundown of funds in the event of significant funding cuts. The charity secured short-term stability through a three-year National Lottery grant and other donations.

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 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Epsom, Ewell & Banstead (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIONY THOMASchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Denise Hazel Crone
• Jayne Morgan
• Judy Walsh · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL BLACKBURN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Moody
• Simon John Dennis

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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