Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

HOME-START CAMDEN AND ISLINGTON 

Home-Start Camden and Islington trains volunteers who then provide regular support, friendship and practical help to families (which have at least one child under 5). Home-Start Camden and Islington provides back up and supervision of the volunteers as the families supported are generally the most disadvantaged in Camden and Islington.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 23 years

www.homestartcamdenandislington.co.uk

info@homestartcamden.org

02074241603

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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*£328£320£8n/an/an/an/an/a37
31/03/22£347£303£44n/an/an/an/an/a62
31/03/21£338£283£55n/an/an/an/an/a62
31/03/20£253£289£-36n/an/an/an/an/a82
31/03/19£326£290£37n/an/an/an/an/a126
31/03/18£196£230£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£311£221£90£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£184£232£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£242£224£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£280£205£75£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£219£214£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£178£185£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£175£154£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£160£172£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£126£211£-85£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£213£194£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£235£210£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£249£237£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£248£226£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£174£187£-13£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden, Islington,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 37 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
John Lyon's Charity£116,200
Cripplegate Foundation£50,200
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,191
City Bridge Trust£14,141
DCMS£12,500
Cloudesley£9,500
Co-Operative Group£5,399
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Home-Start Camden & Islington
£3,500 05/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Camden and Islington
£2,891 22/10/2022
We wish to set up a wellbeing garden, with herbs, vegetables and wildflowers, on our currently disused balcony space, to give families a space to relax and teach young children gardening skills.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Home Start Camden and Islington - 27/07/22
£2,500 18/08/2022
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Home Start Camden & Islington
£9,750 18/02/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a peri-natal support service for families living with disadvantage. The project aims to provide emotional mental and physical interventions to aid positive ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£10,000 28/01/2022
Home-Visiting Camden and Islington
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Home-Start Camden and Islington
£25,100 19/10/2021
Peer to peer support for Islington families
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Home-Start Camden & Islington
£1,800 01/06/2021
Connecting Families
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Home-Start Camden and Islington - 22/02/21
£1,000 03/03/2021
Supermarket Voucher Scheme for Families in Food Poverty
Cloudesley - Grant to Home-Start Camden and Islington
£9,500 23/02/2021
Home-Start Family Support Islington
London Catalyst - Home-Start Camden and Islington - 1
£2,500 09/02/2021
Technology Library and Digital Learning
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Family Support Camden and Islington
£9,441 19/01/2021
11
The funding will be used to continue delivering their home-visiting support service for disadvantaged and vulnerable families with young children. The project aims to provide emotional and practical ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£10,000 11/12/2020
Home-Visiting Camden and Islington
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Camden and Islington
£2,508 24/10/2020
We would train volunteers who will visit isolated and vulnerable families with young children and provide practical and emotional support.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,500 21/09/2020
"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 ....more
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to Home-Start Camden & Islington
£5,900 14/09/2020
4
COVID-19: LCR Wave 3 - Adapting the office.
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Home-Start Camden & Islington
£105,000 18/06/2020
36
Camden Core: Supporting vulnerable children and families
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Camden and Islington (HSC&I)
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - The project will provide activity packs and online parenting support for low income families isolated by the impact of Covid-19. Children under 5 will have improved family relationships, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start Camden and Islington
£10,661 28/05/2020
A grant of £10,661 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 27/05/2020
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 ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start Camden and Islington
£3,480 13/04/2020
A grant of £3,480 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Home-Start Camden & Islington
£25,100 25/11/2019
A lasting impact: empowering parents, supporting children and increasing volunteering
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 07/03/2019
Family Support and Home Visiting (core costs)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Camden
£4,524 19/11/2018
We need to cover the expenses of an evening course to train people to become family support volunteers.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Camden
£100,046 02/03/2018
36
Parenting support for families who may be affected by domestic violence, housing problems, disability or ill health. Children under 5 will have have improved family relationships, well-being and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - A lasting impact: empowering parents, supporting children and increasi
£413,696 08/04/2015
48
Home-Start Camden will use the funding to develop its project which provides support to vulnerable families through regular home visits and outreach work. New elements of the project will include ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Camden
£98,700 12/03/2015
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary and associated running costs of the Senior Coordinator at a Home-Start in the London Borough of Camden
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Camden
£90,000 14/03/2012
36
towards three years’ continuation funding of the salary of a part-time Co-ordinator and associated running costs of a Home-Start in the London Borough of Camden
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Support for Disadvantaged Families in Camden
£293,142 14/12/2011
36
Home-Start Camden will offer emotional and practical support to families under stress living in deprived areas where at least one child is under 5. Support will enable people to have better chances ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 28-70
  • IMOGEN SHAW Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Communications Advisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/04/2001, number: 1086292
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/03/2001, number: 04177691
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 2 days late, AR08: 2 days late, AR06: 359 days late,
Main office

7 Dowdney Close
Kentish Town
London
NW5 2BP

Objectives

1) TO SAFEGUARD PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN2) TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN3) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN4) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILDCARE WITHIN THE AREA OF CAMDEN AND ITS ENVIRONS

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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