Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

HOME-START CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Home-Start offers volunteer support to families in their own homes, parents supporting parents, helping them to get through a difficult time in their lives: loneliness, isolation, post-natal illness, domestic violence, poverty, inadequate housing, disability, family breakdown.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£236£242£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£223£208£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£173£179£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£216£139£77n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£177£187£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£196£235£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£217£197£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£345£322£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£318£294£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£127£126£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£126£107£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£90£120£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£109£99£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£139£103£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£133£121£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£116£124£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£120£120£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£117£122£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years

http://www.homestartcambridgeshire.co.uk/

office@homestartcambridgeshire.co.uk

01480700242

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£134,400
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
Postcode Places Trust£17,197
The Grocers' Charity£14,058
DCMS£11,742
Westminster Foundation£10,000
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£9,270
National Lottery Community Fund£9,040
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Chesterton Group
£4,970 13/11/2023
to support families and children to socialise and providing communal activities for 30 people
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 06/01/2023
24
Support for Families
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Chesterton Group
£4,300 06/01/2023
6
to provide a group for invited mothers and their under 5s that will take place weekly, in term time
National Lottery Community Fund - Support for Domestic Abuse Survivors
£9,040 07/10/2022
The funding will be used to support as many families as possible who have found the courage to leave an abusive relationship to build a better life for themselves and their children. The project aims to give emotional support to families signpost ....more
Postcode Places Trust - Improving Parental Mental Health - Staff Salary
£17,197 27/07/2022
This funding helped support parents and children to improve their mental wellbeing, bonding within families and outcomes for children.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Home-Start Cambridgeshire
£4,058 22/06/2022
towards programme costs to support more struggling families with volunteer home visiting.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Home-Start Cambridgeshire
£5,000 29/04/2022
Towards supporting families post covid
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 14/08/2020
A Better Start
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£10,000 21/07/2020
6
School Reediness Programme in Trumpington (covid-19)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,179 25/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Cambridgeshire
£2,563 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - Grant for support and activity packs for children affected by Covid 19 and living in areas of deprivation and poverty. Support will reduce children's isolation and improve their wellbeing and familal relationships.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,563 03/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Home-Start Cambridgeshire
£5,000 24/04/2020
Working to increase social mobility through training courses, better facilities or parenting support
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Cambridgeshire
£134,400 19/03/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start in a deprived area of Cambridgeshire
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Cambridgeshire
£108,350 11/10/2016
36
This project will provide a range of home visiting support and a weekly support group for children experiencing poverty, deprivation, social isolation and mental health issues. Outcomes include improved behaviour, improved health and access to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-74
  • AARON VENABLES (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Marketing Director
  • CHLOE VICTORIA HEATH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Entrepreneur
  • FIONA JANE FINDLAY PIRIE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Executive Assistant
  • JOANNA CARUTH STUDDERT Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired Deputy Headteacher
  • MARGARET EVA CHALLIS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: None
  • NINA RYAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Banking/Finance Professional
  • SUSAN MARY WILSON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Tax Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/09/2004, number: 1106007
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/05/2004, number: 05139596
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

F103/104 Upper Pendrill Court
Ermine Street North
Papworth Everard
Cambridgeshire
CB23 3UY

Objectives

(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 WITHIN THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CAMBRIDGE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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