Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 2

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 6

HOME-START MERTON

Home-Start Merton is a voluntary organistion providing support, friendship and practical help to families experiencing stress and difficulties. Referral criteria: Families must have at least one child under the age of 5. Families are visited regularly in their own homes by our trained volunteers who all have experience of parenting and know how hard it can sometimes be.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£77	£183	£-105	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	28
31/03/22		£72	£157	£-84	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/21		£127	£148	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	29
31/03/20		£139	£182	£-43	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	38
31/03/19		£77	£133	£-56	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	37
31/03/18		£104	£129	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£499	£100	£399	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£163	£172	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£161	£178	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£172	£199	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£206	£213	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£221	£216	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£194	£192	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£147	£167	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£151	£148	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£195	£175	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£174	£185	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£105	£99	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 19 years

www.homestartmerton.co.uk

admin@homestartmerton.org

02086466044

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Early years interventions

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Merton,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
28 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

The Wimbledon Foundation	£10,000
The London Community Foundation	£4,250
CAF	£1,380

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Wimbledon Foundation - Christmas period food vouchers and counselling
£5,000	09/11/2020	To extend our counselling service to families who are struggling with mental ill health, lockdown, and Christmas and to provide food vouchers for families for the Christmas period.
The Wimbledon Foundation - Mental health recovery project
£5,000	03/06/2020	Counselling for parents who are struggling with their mental health
CAF - Grant to Home-Start Merton
£1,380	04/05/2020	Grant to Home-Start Merton to support the organisation through COVID19
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Merton
£4,250	30/04/2020	A new service delivery offering support to parents struggling with mental health. To buy in a professional counsellor who will provide counselling support to parents who are not coping well. We will ....more A new service delivery offering support to parents struggling with mental health. To buy in a professional counsellor who will provide counselling support to parents who are not coping well. We will also provide a service for children. The service will offer support in the families own home or in a private room within our office premises.
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Parents Programme
£131,125	12/01/2010 48	This expansion of an existing project will work with families with at least one child under five in Merton, who have been identified as needing extra support. These will include those experiencing ....more This expansion of an existing project will work with families with at least one child under five in Merton, who have been identified as needing extra support. These will include those experiencing problems associated with domestic abuse, disability, being a teenage or lone parent, special educational needs, language barriers, poor housing or unemployment. The project will train volunteers from the local community to offer practical and emotional help in the families' own home.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-67

ADAM FLACKS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor

DIANE HOLMES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Risk Manager

FAYE BRANN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Writer & Author

VIKRANT BHUSKUTE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Entity Reward Bp Plc

DANIEL LAWRENCE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Civil Servant

MANUEL BOGER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: None

MARIAN RIDLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant, Other trusteeship: THE CHILDREN'S TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/04/2005, number: 1108937
Registered at Companies House on 10/02/2005, number: 05359862

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

18 returns made; AR12: 7 days late, AR10: 132 days late, AR07: 132 days late, AR06: 15 days late,

Main office

All Saints Resource Centre
44 All Saints Road
LONDON
SW19 1BX

Objectives

3.1.1 TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS;3.1.2 TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;3.1.3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;3.1.4 TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILDCARE WITHIN THE AREA OF MERTON AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

MERTON AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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