Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

HOME-START SOUTHWARK 

Home-Start Southwark is a children's charity working in the London Borough of Southwark. Formed in July 1995, and incorporated on 23 September 2004 as a charitable company. Home-Start Southwark provides practical and emotional support to struggling parents enabling them to create happier, healthier lives for their children. This is achieved through training a team of home-visiting volunteers.
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
  • 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: 19 years

www.homestartsouthwark.org.uk

info@homestartsouthwark.org.uk

02077377720

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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£455£399£56n/an/an/an/an/a78
31/03/22£318£350£-32n/an/an/an/an/a47
31/03/21£417£319£98n/an/an/an/an/a68
31/03/20£307£288£19n/an/an/an/an/a68
31/03/19£268£304£-36n/an/an/an/an/a48
31/03/18£282£272£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£326£255£71£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£286£267£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£248£224£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£233£222£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£181£198£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£255£253£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£239£236£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£227£219£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£193£187£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£161£189£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£201£203£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£234£245£-11£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Southwark,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 78 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
National Lottery Community Fund£310,000
Henry Smith Charity£284,200
United Saviours Charity£122,112
Peter Minet Trust£90,000
City Bridge Trust£38,600
BBC Children in Need£34,736
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity£9,146
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Support for Lewisham
£10,000 30/08/2022
The funding will be used to employ a volunteer coordinator. The project will enable the organisation to expand their work to support new communities helping families in a number of ways including ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Home-Start Lambeth and Southwark Summer Programme
£9,146 07/07/2022
To pilot a summer programme, working alongside Home-Start Lambeth, for families with children under 5
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£104,200 17/05/2022
36
towards three years' salary of a Family Support Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator at a project providing home-visiting support for vulnerable families in the London Borough of Lewisham.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£30,500 31/01/2022
This grant will support disadvantaged children and families in Southwark, helping them to feel less socially isolated, engage with early years learning and form friendships with their peers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Southwark
£300,000 29/03/2021
35
The project is using funding to work with vulnerable families in Southwark over three years to develop parenting skills resilience and build better relationships between parents and children. ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£38,600 02/09/2020
towards the cost outlined in your application including a new post of Family Support Coordinator and 18 additional hours of existing staff. The resource will be used to roll out the Early Years ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£4,236 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund additional staffing costs to support children affected by poverty and deprivation online who are isolated at home due to Covid-19, this will increase children’s ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£180,000 10/06/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start in a deprived area of the London Borough of Southwark
United Saviours Charity - COVID-19
£26,440 22/04/2020
3
The funding is for changing how we are delivering our services from a one delivered in the home and via groups to one where we still are able to support families emotional and practical needs but via ....more
United Saviours Charity - COVID-19
£5,000 07/04/2020
0
The funding is to provide supermarket vouchers for vulnerable families to reduce family stress and ensure children and families can afford to buy essential provisions we have assessed this at £25 ....more
Peter Minet Trust - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£90,000 24/03/2020
Unrestricted grant to the organisation
United Saviours Charity - Family Support at Home and Mellow Parenting Programme
£90,672 11/07/2019
35
This 3 year core grant will enable Home Start to deliver targeted early intervention for marginalised children and families through a peer support network. Staff and volunteers work with parents to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£137,502 02/03/2018
36
3 programmes supporting good parenting and early childhood development for vulnerable families. Through parenting support, children will develop positive attachments with their parents/carers, ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£4,173 29/11/2017
We want to co-ordinate planned activities for isolated families to learn, play, have fun and meet other parents during the school holidays.
United Saviours Charity - Bump to Babe Project – Work Placement
£39,897 21/03/2017
23
Child poverty is high in north Southwark and this project seeks to reduce its negative impact among higher risk households.  Good early years development is essential for successful life ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Parents Together
£367,983 22/02/2017
36
This project will offer an early intervention service to tackle the impact of poverty and disadvantage in families with children under the age of five through the use of a trusted volunteer who has ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Southwark
£102,000 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' salary of the Senior Coordinator at a project providing support to disadvantaged families with young children in the London Borough of Southwark
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-82
  • JAMES LUSBY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Independent Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/12/2004, number: 1107413
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/09/2004, number: 05239322
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
18 returns made; all on time
Main office

Home Start Southwark
Canopi
7-14 Great Dover Street
SE1 4YR

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 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 SOUTHWARK AND IT'S ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON, SOUTHWALK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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