Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

HOME-START HOST

Home-Start HOST provides a range of support to families in Oldham, Stockport, Tameside and Bolton, largely through volunteer home visiting support for families with a wide range of needs. Additional services include parent infant mental health support, infant feeding peer support, speech & language development and support for dads in the perinatal period.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • 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
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
31/03/23£1,453£1,527£-74£9£1,097£1,0097.950131
31/03/22£1,549£1,126£423£6£1,171£1,11111.842138
31/03/21£1,230£1,021£210£5£748£7198.542112
31/03/20£1,126£1,054£72£5£440£4054.644200
31/03/19£976£897£79£4£367£3464.638186
31/03/18£762£747£15£13£288£2564.1320
31/03/17£684£674£10£2£273£2234330
31/03/16£688£688£0£2£263£2133.7340
31/03/15£636£617£19£6£263£1733.4160
31/03/14£533£488£44£4£183£1573.9170
31/03/13£441£383£58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£209£230£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£155£201£-46n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 28%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 7.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 3.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 15 years

www.home-starthost.org.uk

info@homestarthost.org.uk

01613440669

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Oldham, Stockport, Tameside,
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£295,300
BBC Children in Need£153,611
National Lottery Community Fund£80,000
Comic Relief£25,000
DCMS£20,470
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 22/03/2023
Application for support with core costs
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Homestart HOST
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start HOST
£115,300 07/04/2022
36
towards three years' salary of a 1.5 FTE Family Support Workers, at a project providing support for families from disadvantaged communities, who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Greater Manchester.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Homestart HOST
£30,500 30/07/2021
This project will provide one-to-one support to children and families whose parents are impacted by mental ill-health. It will improve relationships, increase emotional wellbeing, and promote community cohesion.
Forever Manchester - Rapid Response Activity packs
£3,200 01/07/2020
Activity packs to support contact with disadvantaged children
Comic Relief - Home-Start Oldham, Stockport & Tameside Recovery Funding
£25,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Oldham Stockport & Tameside
£180,000 10/06/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start in a deprived area of Oldham, Stockport and Tameside
National Lottery Community Fund - Coronavirus Emergency Support
£80,000 02/06/2020
6
The organisation is a nationwide charity that supports families. Funding for the group will enable them to hire more staff to deal with the higher demand for their services as a result of COVID-19 lockdown.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£20,470 20/05/2020
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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Oldham, Stockport & Tameside
£122,611 24/04/2020
36
This project will support children living in areas of deprivation of Oldham, Tameside and Stockport with a school readiness programme. It will result in them having essential skills, improved relationships with their caregiver, and being emotionally ....more
Comic Relief - Developing Parent Infant Mental Health Support for Vulnerable BAME Families in Tameside & Oldham
£122,490 06/11/2019
36
The project will support BAME families with children aged 0-2 living in diverse, deprived communities in Tameside and Oldham. Services are often not successful in supporting BAME families and this project will support fathers to be more involved in ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent/Infant Mental Health Project
£459,789 21/09/2016
36
Funding will be used to expand the project that provides volunteer home visiting support to 360 parents affected by poor mental health who have a child aged 0-2. Volunteers will be trained in attachment theory, bonding, child development, post-natal ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Vulnerable Families in Oldham
£301,032 20/03/2014
36
Home-Start Tameside and Oldham will help support vulnerable families with children under the age of five. Families will be matched to a trained volunteer who will visit the families in their own homes to provide practical help and improve emotional ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Oldham Stockport & Tameside
£70,800 13/03/2014
36
towards three years' salary of a BAME Family Support Co-ordinator at a Home-Start in a deprived area of Greater Manchester
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Tameside & Oldham
£24,900 17/08/2012
the salary and on-costs of the part time Finance Officer (2hrs pw) and part time Admin Assistant (20hrs pw)
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Tameside
£292,144 13/06/2012
36
This is a continuation of an existing project by Home-Start Tameside and Oldham (HSTO) to provide support to families across Tameside who have at least one child under the age of five and are experiencing stress such as through post natal ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-74
  • CLLR TAFHEEN SHARIF Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Director Law Centre
  • DR SHAID MUSHTAQ Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Councillor
  • EMMA JANE POPOOLA Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Programme Manager
  • GEOFFREY PAUL THOMAS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • JOSIE BADES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Response Volunteering Co-Ordinator
  • KAREN ANN ROSE (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of People, Partnerships And Organisations
  • KATRINA ERICA FLETCHER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Project Co-Ordinator
  • MARY MITCHELL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Social Worker
  • MELANIE COOKE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Children, Young People & Family Services
  • PAULINE WILLIAMS Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Retired Teacher
  • SUSAN WOOD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Nihr Research Collaboration
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/05/2010, number: 1135838
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/03/2010, number: 07203889
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
  • 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
Filing Record
13 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ryecroft Hall
Manchester Road
Audenshaw
M34 5ZJ

Objectives

A TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDRENB TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDRENC TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREND TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE WITHIN THE AREA OF HATTERSLEY AND ITS ENVIRONS

Defined Area of Benefit:

HATTERSLEY AND ITS ENVIRONS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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