HOME-START NEWCASTLE BOROUGH

Registered charity 1161247 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Voluntary organisation supporting families with at least one child under the age of 8 in Newcastle Borough.

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 NEWCASTLE BOROUGH AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Area of benefit: NEWCASTLE BOROUGH 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 reported a net expenditure of £34,083 for the year, resulting in a decline in total funds from £96,196 to £62,113. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds £29,000 in a designated closure fund and £20,407 in general unrestricted funds, which is below the stated reserves policy target of £52,000. The trustees identify financial sustainability as a major priority due to reliance on grant funding.

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 6 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
• 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Newcastle Borough (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Steelite — “Home-Start Newcastle Borough is currently supported with thanks to: Steelite” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carole Dawn Johnsonchair
• DILYS BEARD
• David Williamson
• Julie Cooper
• Neil Dudley

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• HOME-START NORTH WILTSHIRE income £279k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START NORFOLK income £457k
• HOME-START CORBY LIMITED income £144k
• HOME START NORTHAMPTON income £180k

Side by side with its peers

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