Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

HOME-START CHICHESTER & DISTRICT 

Home-Start Chichester & District recruits, trains and monitors volunteers who offer support to families with young children by visiting them in their own home on a regular weekly basis.
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
  • 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: 16 years

www.home-startchichester.org.uk

admin@home-startchichester.org.uk

01243773477

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UN SDGs
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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£191£149£43n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/22£104£147£-43n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/21£169£123£46n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/20£143£122£21n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/19£120£108£12n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£100£101£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£106£86£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£68£83£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£84£128£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£144£127£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£152£118£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£126£91£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£62£61£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£56£56£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£79£43£36£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 30 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
The Michael And Betty Little Trust£70,000
National Lottery Community Fund£65,000
DCMS£62,436
Sussex Community Foundation£38,855
BBC Children in Need£30,000
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Chichester and District
£10,000 27/10/2023
Funding was provided towards core costs.
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - Home Start Chichester
£20,000 14/05/2023
A voluntary home-visiting scheme committed to offering friendship and promoting the welfare of families with young children, to alleviate stress and conflict in their home and help to prevent family ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Home Start Chichester and District
£10,000 11/11/2022
Funding was provided towards core costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Chichester & District
£20,000 15/06/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for families with at least one child under 5 years old from disadvantaged communities in Chichester, West Sussex.
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - Home Start Chichester
£20,000 03/05/2022
A voluntary home-visiting scheme committed to offering friendship and promoting the welfare of families with young children, to alleviate stress and conflict in their home and help to prevent family ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Chichester Service Manager
£65,000 22/11/2021
This funding will be used to pay the salary of a new position of Service Manager (this position has been in post for 6 months using reserves/unrestricted). Home-Start Chichester and District provide ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Chichester and District
£5,000 17/11/2021
12
Funding was provided towards core running costs.
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - Home Start Chichester
£15,000 28/03/2021
A voluntary home-visiting scheme committed to offering friendship and promoting the welfare of families with young children, to alleviate stress and conflict in their home and help to prevent family ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Chichester and District
£5,000 18/11/2020
11
Funding was provided towards the staff costs of a Finance Administrator.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£62,436 25/06/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home Start Chichester & District
£30,000 20/03/2020
36
This project provides parenting skills support to families on low incomes and struggling with parent-child bonding in their own homes. Young children will improve their confidence and communication ....more
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - Home Start Chichester
£15,000 19/01/2020
A voluntary home-visiting scheme committed to offering friendship and promoting the welfare of families with young children, to alleviate stress and conflict in their home and help to prevent family ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Chichester and District
£8,855 18/11/2019
11
Funding was provided towards core costs which enable the charity to support around 100 disadvantaged families and 200 children who are in urgent need of support.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Chichester and District
£8,240 16/11/2018
12
Funding was provided towards core running costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 25/07/2018
A better start in life for children in Chichester District, West Sussex
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Chichester and District
£8,000 20/11/2017
11
Home-Start Chichester & District helps families who have at least one child aged five and under and who are struggling to cope. Funding was provided towards the core costs of delivering ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Chichester & District
£20,000 07/09/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start working with disadvantaged families in West Sussex
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home Start Chichester & District
£30,000 10/05/2017
36
This project provides parenting skills support to families on low incomes and struggling with parent-child bonding in their own homes. Young children will improve their confidence and communication ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Rural Wards of Chichester District
£268,994 10/11/2010
48
This project will offer assistance to parents facing barriers of social exclusion, poverty, disability, rural isolation and mental ill-health, which impact on their ability to provide a stable ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-75
  • JOHN NASH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • LISA HALL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/04/2008, number: 1123768
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/04/2008, number: 06552088
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
15 returns made; AR09: 1 days late,
Main office

Chichester Family Hub
St. James Road
CHICHESTER
PO19 7AB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: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 CHICHESTER & DISTRICT AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WEST SUSSEX

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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