Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

HOME-START BRISTOL 

To recruit and train volunteers to provide a home visiting service to families in dificulty where there is a child under 5 years old
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • 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: 18 years

www.homestartbristol.org.uk

admin@homestartbristol.org.uk

01179501170

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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£245£224£21n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/03/22£206£194£12n/an/an/an/an/a81
31/03/21£218£201£17n/an/an/an/an/a88
31/03/20£216£195£21n/an/an/an/an/a79
31/03/19£202£188£14n/an/an/an/an/a86
31/03/18£190£175£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£160£147£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£158£151£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£142£133£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£126£120£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£118£117£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£114£112£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£114£107£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£70£82£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£75£64£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£76£66£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£80£78£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 70 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£528,981
Henry Smith Charity£165,500
BBC Children in Need£81,430
Quartet Community Foundation£23,000
Co-Operative Group£9,373
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£500 16/03/2023
As requested by the fund holder to support families.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£500 03/01/2023
As requested by the fund holder to support families.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£2,390 22/10/2022
We give isolated families opportunities to meet with other families through walk and talk meet-ups in local green spaces. We also provide resources to encourage families to spend time together.
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Futures
£295,000 21/09/2022
This funding £295000 over 5 years (reduced from an initial ask of £350000) will allow Home-Start Bristol to strengthen the services they offer to disadvantaged families with young children under 5. ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£5,000 02/08/2022
Towards core costs to provide befriending for parents with a child under 5 and to pilot groupwork for parents.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£500 21/03/2022
As requested by the fund holder to support families.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£10,000 18/03/2022
12
Employing a senior coordinator over one year that will enable senior members of the organisation to strengthen partnerships, build closer working relationships with local authority and NHS ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£165,500 10/03/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing volunteer support for families with at least one child under five in Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£1,000 07/12/2021
As requested by the fund holder to support families.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£2,730 23/10/2021
We would like to provide lifelines for isolated young families, linking them with support, food and equipment, creating opportunities for learning and play, and helping them access community spaces.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£500 23/03/2021
As requested by the fund holder.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£2,100 17/06/2020
COVID19 - This grant will fund IT equipment to ensure the project can deliver activities online to socially-isolated families due to Covid-19 to ensure the children and parents are able to cope with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Closing The Gap
£233,981 06/01/2020
59
The funding will be used to continue a programme of activities and interventions aimed at key communities on the edge of Bristol, and to extend these services into country towns and more rurally ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£4,253 15/11/2019
We want to provide expert, specialist training to empower HSB volunteers as they help struggling families to deal with complex issues.
Quartet Community Foundation - Confronting Disadvantage in Bristol
£5,000 03/10/2019
11
Toward the running costs of the third year of the group's Confronting Disadvantage in Bristol, providing targeted support by trained volunteers for parents with young children who are facing ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£79,330 26/06/2019
36
This project will provide weekly support for families experiencing complex needs and parenting issues with very young children. As a result children will have improved physical health, feel happier ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Confronting Disadvantage in Bristol
£373,336 16/11/2016
59
The project aims to support families with children under five living among the most deprived areas in Bristol. By providing specifically tailored activities offering emotional and practical support, ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£14,400 14/07/2016
Final year of a three-year grant to develop a volunteer programme, focussing helping families with their children's education
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Bristol
£42,400 12/06/2014
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start providing volunteer support to families from BAME communities in Bristol
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Bristol Homestart
£15,000 28/06/2013
Home-Start Bristol provides support to disadvantaged families. This grant will support 30 families living in the most deprived areas of Bristol. These families will be able to cope with the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 26-75
  • JESSICA SMITH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Business Development Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/09/2006, number: 1116207
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/03/2006, number: 05745817
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
17 returns made; AR07: 6 days late,
Main office

UNIT 11
GREENWAY CENTRE
DONCASTER ROAD
BRISTOL

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 THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN.(D) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE;WITHIN THE AREA OF BRISTOL AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WITHIN BRISTOL AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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