Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

HOME-START WYRE FOREST

We recruit and train parent volunteers who then offer home visiting befriending support to local families who are experiencing difficulties and have a child under 18 years of age.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£287£289£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/22£327£298£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/21£334£324£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20£301£277£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£210£198£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18*£119£166£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/17£214£190£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/16£203£187£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/15£150£146£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/14?£171£168£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£110£131£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£132£132£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£133£130£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£131£137£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£133£123£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£1£21£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years
(19 years as a company)

www.homestartwyreforest.org.uk

info@homestartwyreforest.org.uk

01562825896

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Worcestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
BBC Children in Need£114,560
Garfield Weston Foundation£35,000
National Lottery Community Fund£24,290
DCMS£22,730
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Wyre Forest
£90,000 10/02/2023
36
This grant will provide core funding and home visiting support for families living in an area of significant deprivation. The project aims to reduce isolation, reduce the risk of family crisis and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 16/12/2022
Home-Start Family Support
National Lottery Community Fund - Hope at Home-Start
£9,984 06/05/2022
The funding will be used to provide family support via a befriending and signposting service which will be delivered by a small team of staff and over 80 trained and supervised volunteers. The ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 28/05/2021
Hope at Home-Start
National Lottery Community Fund - Hope at Home-Start
£9,984 12/03/2021
11
The funding will contribute towards the managers salary of the overall project to help support families. This will enable them to have the means to review and refine their service delivery meet ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Wyre Forest
£24,560 30/11/2020
This project will provide theraputic support for children aged 5-18 whose mental health has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in North Worcestershire. The support provided will enable improved ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£20,000 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
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,730 19/05/2020
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
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Wyre Forest is here !
£4,322 03/04/2020
4
The funding will be used to purchase materials and attend community events to raise public awareness of their family support charity. The project aims to make them more accessible to the most ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 15/07/2019
HSWF Family Support
National Lottery Community Fund - Safe & Strong
£411,632 31/01/2019
60
This project will provide mental health support to children and adults. A team of volunteers will be partnered with and befriend people to support them. People with experience of mental health ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteers Together
£9,924 26/10/2018
12
This funding will be used to recruit and train volunteers to provide increased local family support.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/04/2018
Parent to Parent Family Support
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Home Start Wyre Forest
£14,858 24/10/2017
24
The grant will ensure that the Manager can work the additional hours required to coordinate the next stage in development of a partnership to support clients presenting complex histories and trauma ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Families Together
£8,774 05/07/2017
12
This group will use the funding to set up a daytime family group for isolated parents with pre-school children to meet, gain support and develop social relationships. This will allow vulnerable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Plus
£249,787 10/08/2014
36
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Wyre Forest
£82,400 12/06/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a Home-Start in a deprived area of Worcestershire
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Wyre Forest
£25,900 28/02/2014
Community based charity aiming to reduce isolation and improve health and wellbeing for families with young children living in Areas of Highest Needs through regular, confidential, volunteer ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-87
  • BARBARA HUGHES Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Retired
  • BRIAN PRICE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • LINDA SMALL Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Director
  • MEGAN WEAVER (Chair) Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Retired
  • ROGER BOURNE Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired
  • SAMUEL GUILLE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Minister Of Religion
  • SARAH MORGAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Volunteer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/08/2007, number: 1120436
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/04/2005, number: 05419029
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
16 returns made; AR18: 26 days late, AR08: 7 days late,
Main office

MCF Complex
60 New Road
Kidderminster
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
DY10 1AQ

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 WYRE FOREST AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WITHIN THE AREA OF WYRE FOREST AND ITS ENVIRONS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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