Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

HOME-START LEEDS

FAMILY SUPPORT
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 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

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£325£327£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£356£252£104n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£270£254£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£270£255£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£212£228£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£357£352£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£384£346£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£354£338£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£295£293£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£280£274£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£242£271£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£302£236£66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£252£258£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£281£349£-69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£391£435£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£454£418£35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£383£370£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£359£377£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£416£370£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£353£325£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 34 years

www.home-startleeds.co.uk

office@home-startleeds.co.uk

01132442419

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Calderdale, Leeds City,
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
National Lottery Community Fund£677,917
Henry Smith Charity£118,600
Leeds Community Foundation£78,828
BBC Children in Need£2,080
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - My Life
£19,744 04/04/2024
11
Grant to Home-Start Leeds
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent to Parent
£240,947 16/06/2023
Funding will be used to build on and further develop specialist one-to-one support to families in Leeds with mental health needs who have children aged 0-7 years. The project aims to make a positive change to the life chances and opportunities of ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Home-Start Leeds Winter Warm Fund
£5,120 20/09/2022
Grant to Home-Start Leeds
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Ties
£230,119 16/09/2022
The funding will be used to enable Home-Start Leeds to continue to build on and develop their specialist provision of much needed Kinship and Reunification service support and advice in Leeds. The Family Ties project will provide practical and ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Wellbeing of Perinatal Parents
£19,850 01/11/2021
Supporting, encouraging Dads to share their feelings, to be involved from pregnancy with their babies development, which supports family well being and develops more inclusive services for all parents during the perinatal period, all of which ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Cosy During Winter
£1,765 06/10/2021
Please provide a one sentence summary of your project Supporting babies and children's physical, mental well-being and development by using the fund to provide warm, comfortable clothing, bedding to stay 'cosy' both in and outside their homes.
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Leeds
£30,000 17/03/2021
Grant to Home-Start Leeds
Leeds Community Foundation - Warm in Winter
£2,349 07/10/2020
5
Grant to Home-Start Leeds
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Leeds
£2,080 17/06/2020
COVID19 - This grant will provide additional online and telephone support for young care leavers in Leeds who are already or who are about to become parents to increase confidence and reduce isolation which has increased due to Covid-19.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Leeds
£118,600 10/06/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start in a deprived area of Leeds
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent to Parent Well-Being Support
£206,851 19/02/2020
36
The funding will provide a support network for parents with children aged 0-7 with special educational needs or disabilities. The aim is to reduce stress, anxiety and isolation, improve emotional well-being and confidence.
Leeds Community Foundation - Bringing Home-Start Leeds IT into the 21st Centuary
£12,124 23/10/2019
10
We need to bring the Home-Start Leeds IT equipment/monitoring systems up to date not only for security reasons but to greatly increase/enable our ability to enhance our service/support to families, volunteers and communities and maintain quality by ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Home-Start Learning Cafes
£19,805 26/10/2018
11
To deliver Learning Café style workshops for parents supported by our service who are struggling with complex needs & financial challenges. parents will attend with their volunteer. This is an opportunity for shared learning/development and to ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Leeds
£3,500 16/10/2018
4
The grant would again provide us with very valuable funds to support families in providing some of the basic clothing and footwear for their young children that would help prevent seasonal ill health for the children.
National Lottery Community Fund - Kinship Family Support
£92,754 21/09/2018
24
Home-Start Leeds run a kinship support scheme, which ensures that children in Leeds are successfully cared for within their own family network. The funding will enable them to recruit and train volunteers to provide emotional and practical support ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Leeds
£61,160 06/08/2017
36
This project will provide support to young care leavers in Leeds who are already, or who are about to become, parents.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Leeds
£101,700 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing pre-natal support to vulnerable families in Leeds
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Leeds
£114,195 01/12/2014
35
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Leeds
£93,000 05/12/2012
36
towards three years' salary of a Volunteer Coordinator to provide pre-natal support to vulnerable families in Leeds where the unborn baby is on the at risk register
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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: 35-66
  • CAROL ELSTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • ELIZABETH DRAPER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • EMMA YEATS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Manager
  • GERALD BROWNE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Barrister
  • KAREN JANE BREAKWELL (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Associate Director
  • PETER HARRISON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Financial Officer
  • SIMON BENGER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Relationships Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/07/1990, number: 703128
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/06/1990, number: 02515716
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

F17-23
Hope House
65 Mabgate
Leeds
LS9 7DR

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 CHILD CARE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LEEDS AND ITS ENVIRONS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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