HOME FOR GOOD

Registered charity 1158707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home for Good exists to encourage people to foster and adopt, and inspire and equip churches to welcome and support families that foster and adopt.

Objects

The Charity’s Objects are, for the public benefit and in accordance with Christian principles as set out in the Statement of Beliefs, to relieve the needs of and advance in life children and young people who have been or may be at some point placed in care in the UK – whatever the placement type. This includes (but is not limited to) encouraging Christians to adopt, foster and/or provide supported accommodation for children and young people, equipping churches to support foster carers, adoptive families and supported lodgings hosts, and equipping local authorities, trusts, and fostering/adoption agencies to engage more effectively with Churches and Christians.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased operating following a merger with Safe Families for Children in September 2024, transferring all assets and liabilities. Consequently, the entity holds no reserves and has no future financial commitments, having discharged all obligations as part of the merger process.

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
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Mary Westcott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Luke Nathan Bacon · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GOOD NEWS FAMILY CARE (HOMES) LTD.

• GOOD NEWS FAMILY CARE (HOMES) LTD income £437k
• HOPE AND HOMES FOR CHILDREN income £8.0m
• THE FAMILY FEDERATION FOR WORLD PEACE AND UNIFICATION income £0
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START NORTH SOMERSET income £126k
• FUNDERS IN GOOD income £684k

Side by side with its peers

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