Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 4

HOME-START LONDON

Home-Start is a national family support charity helping parents build better lives for their children by offering support, friendship and practical help. As an infrastructure and support organisation, Home-Start London facilitates the delivery of more varied and effective services to a large number of vulnerable families across the Capital, particularly in areas and pockets of extreme deprivation.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£330	£288	£42	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£331	£303	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21		£136	£107	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20		£136	£107	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19		£103	£107	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18		£55	£57	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£30	£31	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£43	£9	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 9 years

julia17roberts@gmail.com

02083710674

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Early years interventions

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides other finance
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 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
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£5,900	31/10/2023	Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£5,383	31/07/2023	Unrestricted match funding payment to July 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£5,482	30/04/2023	Unrestricted match funding payment to to April 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Cost of Living Grant
£5,000	26/04/2023	One-off, unrestricted grant
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£5,390	31/01/2023	Unrestricted match funding payment to to January 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£5,428	31/10/2022	Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2022
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£5,428	31/07/2022	Unrestricted match funding payment to July 2022
The Berkeley Foundation - Match Funding payment
£428	30/04/2022	Unrestricted match funding payment to April 2022
The Berkeley Foundation - Foundation award grants
£500	29/03/2022	Unrestricted 2022 Foundation Awards grant
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£407	31/01/2022	Unrestricted match funding payment to January 2022
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£20,273	31/10/2021	Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2021
The Berkeley Foundation - Covid-19 match funding grant
£5,000	20/04/2021	Unrestricted donation to a charity match funding the amount raised by Berkeley Group staff
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start London
£31,600	22/03/2021	towards the salary and other costs a new p/t (3dpw) Partnership Manager post as outlined in your application
The Berkeley Foundation - Focus group attendance donation
£100	15/03/2021	Unrestricted donation to a charity in thanks for attending a focus group session
The Berkeley Foundation - Emergency Covid-19 grant
£10,000	13/11/2020	One off unrestricted grant to help the charity with the impact of Covid-19 on its fundraising
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start London
£50,000	11/09/2020	towards the cost of the continuation of existing and new family support service delivery across London for 6 months as outlined in your application.
The Berkeley Foundation - Berkeley Foundation Awards grant
£3,000	08/09/2020	Unrestricted donation to a charity nominated by the winner of a Berkeley Foundation Award
The Berkeley Foundation - Emergency Covid-19 grant to help mitigate loss of fundraising income
£10,000	28/04/2020	One-off unrestricted, emergency grant to support the Foundation's Designated Charities during the Covid-19 crisis. COVID19 related grant.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start London (HSL)
£5,000	09/04/2020	A one-off, unrestricted grant of £5,000, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Home-Start London (HSL)
£100,000	12/11/2019 60	£100,000 (5 x £20,000) over five years towards the salary of the p/t Director.
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start in London Promotion Campaign
£10,000	25/01/2019 12	The project will facilitate a volunteer recruitment campaign. The aim is to ensure volunteers are able to support families facing challenges.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 58-72

ALLY CROSS Appointed: 2019

MARGARET O'CONNER Appointed: 2019

SILVA HRABAR Appointed: 2022

FRAN BOTO Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Health Visitor, Other trusteeship: HOME-START SUTTON,

SARAH MESSENGER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Workforce

CHRISTINA SMYTH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: Home-Start Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham,

HELEN ANASTASI Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: HOME-START HILLINGDON,

IAN JESNICK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Communications Marketing And Media Specialist, Other trusteeship: HOME-START CAMDEN AND ISLINGTON,

JULIA ROBERTS (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Marketing Consultant, Other trusteeship: HOME-START BARNET,

KAREN ROBERTSON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Self Employed Hr Consultant, Other trusteeship: HOME-START WANDSWORTH LIMITED,

LYDIA LEZAMA Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Social Worker Assistant, Other trusteeship: Home-Start Haringey, Hackney and Waltham Forest,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/05/2015, number: 1161629

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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

Filing Record

8 returns made; AR16: 2 days late,

Main office

17 EAST END ROAD
STEPHEN'S HOUSE
LONDON
N3 3QE

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF HOME-START CHARITIES IN LONDON BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO ADMINISTRATION, INFRASTRUCTURE AND FUNDRAISING THROUGH A CONSORTIUM MODEL AND BUILDING A CO-ORDINATED SERVICE FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

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