Home-Start Warwickshire
Registered charity 1185280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOME-START SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE
Home-Start South Warwickshire provide practical help, friendship and emotional support to families in South Warwickshire where there is a child under five. Families may be struggling with parenting, physical or mental illness, disability, multiple births, loneliness or isolation. Our volunteers, who are parents themselves, undergo 30 hours of training, regular CPD and supervision.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · 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 surplus of £40,832 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income increasing to £215,169 and expenditure decreasing to £174,337. Per the Treasurer's report, unrestricted reserves stood at £93,486, which meets the charity's stated policy target of six months of operational costs. The Independent Examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: six months of expected operational costs (held: £93k)
“At the end of the financial year, we held general funds of £93,486, sufficient to cover 6 months of expected operational costs. This is as per the 6-month target in our reserves policy” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Grant from councillor-led funding scheme where Treasurer's mother-in-law was an elected councillor until May 2025.
“In the prior financial year, the charity received a grant of £1,000 from a councillor-led funding scheme in which she had involvement. The grant was awarded in the normal course of the council’s funding activities. The related trustee was not involved in the charity’s decision to apply for or accept the funding.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Warwickshire (matched by registered charity number).
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
- Selina Katharine Kermodechair
- Amrit Midha
- Caroline Isabel Mclean Dolan
- Eloise Coralie Ebrey Fortat
- Kelly-Anne Mogano
- Rachael White
- Renata Boreham
- SUSAN MARY SEARCH
- Susan Louise Carr
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Warwickshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Home-Start Warwickshire financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £40,832 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income increasing to £215,169 and expenditure decreasing to £174,337. Per the Treasurer's report, unrestricted reserves stood at £93,486, which meets the charity's stated policy target of six months of operational costs. The Independent Examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds Home-Start Warwickshire?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Home-Start Warwickshire as a grant recipient include STRATFORD-UPON-AVON TOWN TRUST, WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE GEORGE CADBURY TRUST (GEORGE HENRY T AND LAURENCE J CADBURY SECTIONS), THE SAINTBURY TRUST, THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST.
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