HOME-START EAST SURREY

Registered charity 1164164 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home-Start East Surrey offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children in East Surrey and its environs. We recruit and train volunteers who are parents themselves to visit families with at least one child under five at home, and offer them 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 EAST SURREY AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £3,085 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £55,201. The trustees maintain unrestricted reserves at a level equivalent to 5.5 months of expenditure to ensure sufficient funds are available to meet contractual obligations in the event of unforeseen difficulties.

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
• Paying staff
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07645329

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

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.

• SWAN, Daniel Thomas — director, appointed 07/09/2026on trustee list
• GLEESON, Katie, Ms. — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• ROYDEN-TURNER, Joanne Louise, Ms. — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• BRANNAN, Carla, Ms. — director, appointed 14/01/2025on trustee list
• LOCKWOOD, Tina Michelle, Ms. — director, appointed 10/10/2023on trustee list
• LIMOND, Stephanie Ann — director, appointed 18/07/2019on trustee list
• BARTON, Angela — director, appointed 04/09/2018on trustee list
• MATHIESON, David George Ian — director, appointed 11/04/2018on trustee list
• MATHIESON, David George Ian — secretary, appointed 06/11/2018

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA BARTON
• Carla Brannan
• DAVID MATHIESON
• Daniel Thomas Swan
• Joanne Louise Royden-Turner
• Katie Gleeson
• Stephanie Ann Limond
• Tina Michelle Lockwood

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• HOME-START NORTH AND WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £270k
• Home-Start Suffolk income £683k
• HOME-START IN WAVERLEY income £258k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START LONDON income £195k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k

Side by side with its peers

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