Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

HOME-START WESTMINSTER, KENSINGTON & CHELSEA AND HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM 

Home-Start supports families with at least one child under five, or expecting a baby, offering friendship and tailored practical and emotional support and advocacy. We train volunteers to work with families within their home.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 19 years

www.homestartwestminster.org.uk

admin@hswestminster.co.uk

020 7724 1345

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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£327£419£-92n/an/an/an/an/a123
31/03/22£361£329£32n/an/an/an/an/a122
31/03/21£343£298£45n/an/an/an/an/a107
31/03/20£310£309£1n/an/an/an/an/a114
31/03/19£278£278£0n/an/an/an/an/a130
31/03/18*£300£270£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£190£228£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£222£210£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£200£223£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£235£249£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£210£205£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£222£168£54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£170£183£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£208£183£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£164£172£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£201£175£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£206£170£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£70£115£-45£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 123 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of Westminster, Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea,

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
Henry Smith Charity£120,000
City Bridge Trust£50,000
The London Community Foundation£10,000
John Lyon's Charity£7,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Home-Start Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham
£3,900 09/06/2021
Covid Community Re-Engagement Programme
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham
£50,000 22/03/2021
towards the salaries, support and overhead costs as outlined in your application
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Home Start Westminster
£10,000 08/12/2020
4
This funding is for volunteer befrienders/therapists to provide emotional and practical support to families with young children who are facing difficulties amplified by Covid. These difficulties, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Westminster
£120,000 16/09/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start in a deprived area on Westminster.
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Home-Start Westminster
£4,000 17/06/2019
12
Family outing programme ‘Start Out’
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Westminster
£118,977 27/06/2018
36
Volunteer home-visiting support around prenatal needs and parenting for 225 children from families experiencing local deprivation in Westminster. Children will experience improved familial ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 30/01/2018
Home-Start Westminster - core funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Dynamic Families – Building Resilience
£395,414 16/06/2016
48
Struggling parents on low incomes with young families with at least one child under five will be supported through local trained volunteers who have parenting experience. Volunteers may include ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Families First
£280,796 09/02/2011
60
This project supports families with at least one child under five who are experiencing isolation, post natal depression or who are struggling to raise a family. They do this through a combination of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 37-70
  • ISLA JOHNS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Charity Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/05/2005, number: 1109568
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/11/2004, number: 05283272
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
  • 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
18 returns made; AR18: 34 days late, AR07: 0 days late,
Main office

St. Pauls Church
5 Rossmore Road
LONDON
NW1 6NJ

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 CHILDCARE WITHIN THE AREA OF WESTMINSTER AND ITS ENVIRONS

Defined Area of Benefit:

WESTMINSTER AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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