Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

HOME-START BARNET 

To provide support to families with at least one child under 5 years old
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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 19 years

www.homestartbarnet.org

admin@homestartbarnet.org

02083710674

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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£600£660£-59£0£78£350.622128
31/03/22£630£581£49£0£137£380.815160
31/03/21£622£607£15£0£88£671.318165
31/03/20£505£560£-55£2£73£651.416145
31/03/19£556£496£60£1£128£1273.114165
31/03/18£492£478£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£489£514£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£406£386£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£446£460£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£327£369£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£320£295£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£261£256£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£242£211£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£181£224£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£237£257£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£226£175£51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£163£128£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£120£110£10£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 45%
Reserves/Spending: 0.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Harrow,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 22 employees
  • 128 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£450,100
DCMS£70,895
City Bridge Trust£55,400
The London Community Foundation£43,501
BBC Children in Need£30,500
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Kenmore Park Family Group
£10,000 28/04/2023
The funding will allow to organisation to continue to run weekly activity sessions for families with pre-school children who are predominantly from Black Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds. ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Home-Start Barnet
£14,800 17/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Home-Start Barnet
£77,300 17/11/2022
Family Support, Harrow
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 04/02/2022
Building Resilience
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£30,500 31/01/2022
This grant will fund community-based family group sessions for vulnerable and disadvantaged children aged under-5 in Barnet and support their early years development including cognitive, language ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Healthy Start
£10,000 24/09/2021
The funding will be used to run weekly activity sessions for families with pre-school children. The project aims to support predominantly BAME children living in households struggling with food ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Home-Start Barnet
£111,000 16/06/2021
Family Support, Barnet
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Home-Start Barnet
£111,000 10/03/2021
36
Family Support, Brent
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£70,895 05/10/2020
"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
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£43,501 30/09/2020
The funding is for 1:2:1 therapy, family therapy and parenting programmes for families experiencing a decline in their mental health or a breakdown in family relationships as a result of the C-19 ....more
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to Home-Start Barnet
£31,000 05/06/2020
12
COVID-19: LCR Wave 2 - Staffing, training & equipment
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£55,400 26/09/2019
24
£55,400 (2 x £27,700) over two further and final years for the salary of a p/t (21 hpw) Coordinator and related costs of providing support services, including money management guidance, to ....more
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2019
£4,000 17/06/2019
Provide low income disadvantaged families with young children magical yet educational days out that enable them to have a positive experience as a whole family and help build wonderful childhood ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Home-Start Barnet
£105,000 14/06/2019
36
Home-Start activities in HARROW
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£30,000 30/07/2018
36
Play sessions for 60 pre-school children affected by local deprivation living in Harrow. By attending the group children will be less isolated, have fun with their friends and become more school ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£99,487 27/06/2018
36
Family support services, stay & play sessions and trips for 240 families living on the Grahame Park Estate in Barnet. By attending sessions children will have improved confidence & wellbeing ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 18/06/2018
Supporting disadvantaged families in Brent, Barnet and Harrow
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2018
£4,000 15/06/2018
Provide low income disadvantaged families with young children magical yet educational days out that enable them to have a positive experience as a whole family and help build wonderful childhood ....more
The Childhood Trust - Home-Start Barnet Family Outings
£3,250 05/12/2017
Provide low income disadvantaged families with young children magical yet educational days out that enable them to have a positive experience as a whole family. For some of our supported children a ....more
London Borough of Barnet - Grant to Home Start Barnet
£5,000 25/09/2017
6
Tuition & advice for families on how to home-cook inexpensively
The Childhood Trust - Home-Start Barnet Family Outings
£3,250 19/05/2017
Provide low income disadvantaged families with young children magical yet educational days out that enable them to have a positive experience as a whole family. For some of our supported children a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Barnet Wellbeing Project
£10,000 15/03/2017
12
This project will provide exercise sessions and wellbeing activities for staff to promote healthy lifestyles. This will enable them to improve their physical health and wellbeing, work more ....more
The Childhood Trust - Home-Start Barnet Family Outings
£2,500 02/12/2016
Provide low income disadvantaged families with young children magical yet educational days out that enable them to have a positive experience as a whole family. For some of our supported children a ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£100,000 09/06/2016
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing support to disadvantaged families with young children in the London Borough of Barnet
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£75,000 24/05/2016
36
£75,000 over three years (3 x £25,000) for the salary of a p/t Coordinator and related costs of providing support services, including money management guidance, to vulnerable families with young ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Harrow Project
£379,675 29/07/2015
48
This project is an expansion of an existing pilot service by Home-Start Barnet providing emotional and practical support to parents of children under the age of five in the London Borough of Harrow, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Barnet
£116,300 13/06/2013
36
towards three years' continuation funding of Home-Start in the London Borough of Barnet
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Barnet's Community Charity Shop
£10,000 16/05/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Barnet. The group will use the funding to deliver volunteer training for people who are NEET and to purchase equipment for their charity shop. This will provide ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-67
  • KAREN GUBBAY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Educational Consultant And Specialist Teacher
  • KAREN RACHAEL LEWIS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of Client Services (Voluntary Sector)
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/05/2005, number: 1109550
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/03/2005, number: 05379764
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; AR09: 17 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from HARROW PRE-SCHOOL LANGUAGE RESOURCE on 31/07/2023
Main office

Avenue House
Stephen's House and Gardens
17 East End Road
London
N3 3QE

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 CHILDCAREWITHIN THE AREA OF BARNET AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BARNET AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Data Sources

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