Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

HOME-START SURREY 

Home-Start Surrey, through the 8 local schemes across the county, delivers free, confidential and non-judgemental support to families with a child under five years of age. Under the umbrella of Home-Start Surrey, trained volunteers support families with a tailor made service in their own home, with Home-Start Surrey providing joint approaches and good practice to support these quality services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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: 10 years

www.homestartsurrey.org

lisa@kentfamily.org

01252737453

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookX

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*£323£320£3n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/03/22£283£283£0n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/21£283£285£-2n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£325£324£1n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/19£391£389£2n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£405£412£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£406£412£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£400£386£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£390£386£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 100 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Implementation of Data recording and reporting system
£10,000 16/11/2016
5
To enable Home Start Surrey to make an investment in information technology, which will create a time-saving that can be redirected to support families in need across Surrey

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-75
  • ANN TANN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/12/2013, number: 1154913
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/07/2013, number: 08619881
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
9 returns made; AR23: 14 days late, AR15: 117 days late,
Main office

HOME-START SURREY
VERNON HOUSE
28 WEST STREET
FARNHAM
GU9 7DR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF HOME-START CHARITIES IN SURREY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) HELPING WITH THE EFFECTIVE ATTAINMENT OF RECIPIENT CHARITIES' OBJECTS; AND(B) SUPPORTING THE ADMINISTRATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE CHARITIES IN PARTICULAR BY CO-ORDINATING FUNDING BIDS AND GRANT APPLICATIONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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