HOME-START GREENWICH

Registered charity 1189897 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Home-Start Greenwich (HSG) is an independent charity affiliated to Home-Start UK offering support to families with young children in the Royal Borough of Greenwich since 1993.Our volunteers deliver one to one home visiting support to families. HSG provides help, support, advice & parenting strategies at home. HSG has four Ofsted registered childcare settings and manages 7 Children's Centres.

Objects

(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 CHILDCARE, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE AREA OF GREENWICH 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 generated a net profit of £20,023 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £3,256,726 against total expenditure of £3,236,703. Per the trustees' report, the charity increased its reserves despite a challenging year marked by funding cuts, holding total net assets of £546,261. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and reported no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Simpson Wreford LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Home-Start Greenwich: Implementing the real Living Wage in the Charity Sector livingwage.org.uk · 17/09/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08676376

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Home-Start Greenwich (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.

• WILLIAMS, Ivis — director, appointed 03/02/2026on trustee list
• MANKU, Jaspal Singh — director, appointed 07/07/2025on trustee list
• SHERIDAN, Joseph — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• AZMI, Kaan — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• MAKATINI, Zethu — director, appointed 24/09/2024not on trustee list
• COPELAND, Amy — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• LEWINS, Joanna Mary — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• HERBERT, Carolyn Anne — director, appointed 31/03/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abi Levitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amy Copeland
• Carolyn Herbert
• Ivis Williams
• Jaspal Manku
• Joanna Lewins
• Joseph Sheridan
• Kaan Azmi
• Zethu Chidavaenzi · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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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 LONDON income £195k
• HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER income £434k
• HOME-START UK income £5.2m
• HOME-START LAMBETH income £224k
• HOME-START EAST SURREY income £224k

Side by side with its peers

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