Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

HOME-START WANDSWORTH LIMITED 

Home-start Wandsworth provides support for local families who are struggling for a variety reasons from multiple births, post natal depression to illness and social isolation.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 16 years

www.homestartwandsworth.org.uk

enquiries@homestartwandsworth.org.uk

020 7924 5268

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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
30/06/22£259£298£-39n/an/an/an/an/a73
30/06/21£159£239£-79n/an/an/an/an/a61
30/06/20£255£223£32n/an/an/an/an/a75
30/06/19£358£236£122n/an/an/an/an/a50
30/06/18£211£173£38£0£0£0n/a050
30/06/17£140£118£23£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£134£123£11£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£113£115£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£108£88£19£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£98£71£27£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£62£58£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£28£30£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£20£11£9£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£5£5£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 73 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
National Lottery Community Fund£174,057
Henry Smith Charity£105,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
The Wimbledon Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Bump to Baby
£10,000 23/09/2022
The funding will be used to provide a co-ordinator to deliver the 'Bump to Baby' support groups. The project aims to provide practical and emotional support for new mothers and help build strong ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting families
£94,928 01/08/2022
The project is using funding towards ongoing costs of the support project to meet the urgent health and wellbeing needs of their target families. The project will work with families to design a new ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Wandsworth
£105,000 10/03/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for vulnerable families with at least one child under five years old in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 05/11/2021
Strengthening Families; Building Communities
The Wimbledon Foundation - Winter Family Support
£5,000 09/11/2020
Contribute towards supporting families during winter and Christmas through: Festive Cheer parcels, an online Family Christmas Party, food vouchers and providing outdoor clothing to encourage families ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Stay Connected - COVID-19 Response Project
£69,129 03/07/2020
6
Home-Start Wandsworth will use this funding to meet increased demand for their support services for families with children under 5 who are negatively affected by Covid-19. This includes support to ....more
The Wimbledon Foundation - Stay Connected - wellbeing support for families
£5,000 03/06/2020
One-to-one support for struggling families with young children to help them cope with the pressures of the Covid-19 crisis, reduce isolation, and improve wellbeing and quality of life.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Wandsworth
£90,000 09/03/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to vulnerable parents with children under the age of five in the London Borough of Wandsworth
National Lottery Community Fund - Your Health, Your Future
£198,777 08/03/2017
36
This group aims to develop its project which aims to support vulnerable families with young children. The project will focus on providing support to vulnerable families who are struggling with ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Wandsworth
£20,000 28/01/2013
The Community Integration Project supporting families with mental health issues including the salaries of the part time Coordinators and training costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Wandsworth Reaching Families
£191,464 10/05/2011
60
This project will provide a package of volunteer support services for families with at least one child under the age of five. The scheme will offer support and emotional and practical help with ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/05/2008, number: 1124109
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/06/2007, number: 06278007
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; all on time
Main office

Battersea Central Methodist Mission
20-22 York Road 2nd floor
LONDON
SW11 3QA

Objectives

1 TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN2 TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN, AND4 TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WANDSWORTH.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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