Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 25 ?

HOME-START TRAFFORD SALFORD AND WIGAN 

To offer support to parents of families that are going through difficult times and have children under 5 years of age. Trained volunteers are assigned to visit families in the families' own home and provide support, friendship and practical help
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 18 years

www.hsts.org.uk

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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£571£592£-22£24£132£1112.218120
31/03/22£531£565£-34£23£153£1322.817249
31/03/21£568£467£101£7£187£117315191
31/03/20£328£328£0n/an/an/an/an/a217
31/03/19£309£280£28n/an/an/an/an/a194
31/03/18£260£270£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£224£229£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£204£196£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£145£146£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£124£167£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£164£167£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£134£125£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£128£120£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£139£129£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£110£99£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£88£85£3£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 84%
Reserves/Spending: 2.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 7.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Salford City, Trafford, Wigan,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 120 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
Henry Smith Charity£228,400
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment£192,355
BBC Children in Need£30,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Trafford, Salford and Wigan
£3,434 22/10/2022
The You Are Not Alone project will help 20 families in Trafford, Salford and Wigan by matching them with a Home-Start home-visiting volunteer who will provide regular, non-judgemental support.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 01/04/2022
Building brighter futures
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Trafford, Salford, Wigan
£104,100 11/03/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support for families experiencing crisis and psychotherapy for families, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Greater Manchester.
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Recovery Grant
£98,355 07/03/2022
To address new needs that have arisen directly as a result of Covid: the increased number of families living with poverty and debt who are struggling to afford essential household items; the ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Trafford & Salford
£30,500 31/01/2022
This project will deliver family-led support for children with additional needs in Manchester to increase emotional wellbeing, help regulate responses to social situations and encourage positive ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Bonding through music
£10,000 30/09/2021
The organisation will deliver parent and child musical therapy sessions for families in the local community with the aim of improving wellbeing children's development and reducing social isolation.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 19/03/2021
Building brighter futures
Forever Manchester - Active kids
£3,273 15/05/2020
Telephone support and activity packs for struggling families
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Trafford Crisis Fund Grant to Home Start Trafford & Salford
£4,790 07/05/2020
We want to provide activity packs for families with children so that they are able to nurture their children's learning and development, and to encourage physical play and fun where possible, during ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - School Readiness Project
£94,000 21/04/2020
To enable over 100 pre-school children each year to start school more ready to learn
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Trafford, Salford, Wigan
£124,300 12/06/2019
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a Home-Start in a deprived area of Greater Manchester
National Lottery Community Fund - Resilient Families
£140,915 26/09/2018
24
Home-Start Trafford and Salford (HSTS) train volunteers from the local community to offer home support to parents who are struggling and 'hard-to-reach' families. This funding will enable them to ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Baby Bond
£99,922 03/05/2018
providing consistent one-to-one support for new parents at risk of social isolation and poor mental health who would otherwise have to cope with the huge changes of parenthood alone.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Trafford and Salford
£3,285 04/08/2017
With new volunteers we can help more struggling parents to cope, so they can avoid crisis and improve the life chances of their children.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 06/06/2017
WCA 2017-2018 Cohort
Tudor Trust - Grant to Home-Start: Trafford & Salford
£30,000 21/12/2016
12
over one year towards the running costs of a pilot project to provide doula-type support to vulnerable mothers in Salfordf
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Rapid Response
£9,101 16/06/2016
Our Rapid Response project will allow us to offer more intensive support for families who need immediate support to avoid crisis.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Trafford and Salford
£75,300 10/03/2016
12
towards three years' salary of a part-time Coordinator at a project proving practical and emotional support to vulnerable families with young children in Salford
National Lottery Community Fund - STEPS (Salford Trafford Early-years Parenting Support)
£346,243 17/06/2013
60
This is an expansion of a previous RC project which aims to address the needs of families in Trafford and Salford that suffer from social isolation, poor mental health, post natal depression, lack of ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to HomeStart Trafford and Salford
£25,000 26/04/2013
The Charity supports families living in Trafford and Salford, who are experiencing difficulties or are under stress. Trained volunteers matched to the family provide a tailored package of support to ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-73
  • CAROLYN WEST Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Independent Reviewing Officer
  • ROB G HARWOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Sales Consultancy
  • TOM ROSS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Councillor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/07/2006, number: 1115320
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/09/2005, number: 05578221
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
16 returns made; AR17: 2 days late,
Main office

Stretford Childrens Centre
9 Poplar Road
Stretford
MANCHESTER
M32 9AN

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 CAREWITHIN THE AREA OF TRAFFORD, SALFORD AND WIGAN AND THEIR ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WITHIN TRAFFORD AND SALFORD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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