Overall GiG Score: 4 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 7
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +7

HOME-START EAST HIGHLAND LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 36 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £388,574 £256,930
Donations & Legacies £5,331 £3,811
Other Income
Investment Income £85 £945
Total income £238,141 £248,924 £239,777 £394,003 £278,367 £261,717
Charitable activities spending £246,523 £310,115
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £207,021 £223,396 £237,830 £246,523 £298,198 £310,115
Surplus/deficit £31,120 £25,528 £1,947 £147,480 -£19,831 -£48,398
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Highland

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£100,000
Co-Operative Group£36,408
Scottish Government£35,600
The Clothworkers Foundation£3,700
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start East Highland Community Reach and Engage Project
£100,000 21/06/2022
This group will use the funding to develop their network of volunteers and staff and produce projects which will support some of the most vulnerable families and children in the Highlands. The ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Invergordon
£3,580 23/10/2021
We help local disadvantaged families and children, and provide them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Evanton
£3,988 23/10/2021
We help local disadvantaged families and children, by providing them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Drumnadrochit
£4,994 23/10/2021
We help local disadvantaged families and children, by providing them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Inverness
£4,548 23/10/2021
We help local disadvantaged families and children, by providing them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Hilton
£2,589 23/10/2021
We help local disadvantaged families and children, by providing them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Brora
£4,515 23/10/2021
We would like to provide toys, games and training to help disadvantaged families and children locally, to give them the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Alness
£1,521 23/10/2021
We would use the money to help disadvantaged families and children, and provide them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Balloch
£2,138 23/10/2021
We would like to provide toys, games and training to help disadvantaged families and children locally, to give them the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Dornoch
£1,882 23/10/2021
We help local disadvantaged families and children, by providing them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Aviemore
£1,110 23/10/2021
We would use the money to help disadvantaged families and children locally, and provide them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Lochaber
£898 23/10/2021
We would like to organise support groups in the Lochaber area for parents who are struggling. We would provide special toys and games for the children, and training for staff and volunteers.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start, Drumnadrochit
£4,644 24/10/2020
We help disadvantaged families and children, providing them with the support they need to give every child the best possible start in life.
Scottish Government - Home-Start East Highland Ltd
£35,600 11/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Home Start East Highland Ltd
£3,700 24/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with disadvantaged minority communities in Scotland
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start East Highland
£2,972 19/11/2018
We would like to provide Family Support Groups with a creche to support up to 10 children and their parents over a period of six months.
Robertson Trust - The Part-Time Family Support Worker
£13,000 23/05/2017
The Part-Time Family Support Worker
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start East Highland Development Inverness East
£513,212 05/02/2016
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Development Inverness East
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 28-57
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 22/01/1988, number: SC014048
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/03/2005, number: SC280859
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 36 days late,
Main office

Suite 1, Morrich House,, 20 Davidson Drive,, Invergordon, IV18 0SA

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 care within the area of Ross and Cromarty and its environs.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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