Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

HOME-START BIRMINGHAM NORTH AND INNER CITY 

Volunteer support for families with pre-school children living in the Erdington/Stockland Green area of Birmingham. Families are referred to Home-Start by Health Visitors, Midwives, Social Workers,etc., with the families consent. Volunteers visit families in the families own home for a few hours per week. All volunteers attend a preparation course and have an enhanced criminal record bureau check.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 gender 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: 16 years

www.homestartbirmingham.co.uk

hsbnic@homestartbirmingham.co.uk

01213731376

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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£254£231£24n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/22£188£230£-42n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/21£299£249£50n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£203£221£-17n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/19£198£172£26n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/03/18£149£170£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£163£177£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£171£166£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£143£145£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£110£110£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£122£102£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£113£86£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£94£116£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£103£100£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£117£143£-26£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 16 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£263,340
Henry Smith Charity£110,000
DCMS£61,625
Lloyds Bank Foundation£58,434
Tudor Trust£16,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
CHK Foundation£10,000
Heart Of England Community Foundation£9,833
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City: Targeted Support Workers
£248,000 17/02/2022
The project is using funding to deliver targeted support to families with multiple and complex needs such as social isolation domestic violence learning disabilities autism and post-natal depression. ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City
£110,000 10/02/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing support groups and specialist support for vulnerable families with young children in the Stockland Green, Erdington and Aston wards of ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City
£50,000 20/10/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City
National Lottery Community Fund - Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City: Volunteer Training
£9,610 24/09/2021
The funding will be used to recruit and train volunteers and cover staffing costs. The project to offer support to help parents with children under the age of 5 through the provision of ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City
£2,000 04/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£3,300 01/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£46,325 29/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£12,000 23/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City
£6,184 24/07/2020
Grant to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/06/2020
Young Care Leaver Parents
Tudor Trust - Grant to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City (COVID19 Grant)
£12,000 28/05/2020
12
over six months as additional unrestricted funding to allow this Home-Start to provide enhanced support to marginalised families in Birimingham during the Coronavirus pandemic
Tudor Trust - Grant to Home-Start Birmingham North and Inner City (COVID19 Grant)
£2,000 21/05/2020
as emergency funding towards emergency support for families in North Birmingham during the Coronavirus pandemic
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£10,000 17/03/2020
for specialist targeted support to young care leavers
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Young Care Leaver Parents
£9,833 27/11/2019
11
to develop a support project for young mothers who are care leavers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Nurture Groups Equipment
£5,730 03/05/2019
12
This funding will be used to purchase materials and equipment used during family engagement sessions. The project aims to improve the quality of facilities.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Home-Start: Stockland Green / Erdington
£93,000 20/02/2019
36
over three years towards the salaries of targeted support workers to engage with families with complex needs at a Home-Start working across North Birmingham
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£4,000 22/10/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start Stockland Green Erdington
£90,000 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start in a deprived area of Birmingham
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Home-Start Stockland Green & Erdington
£15,000 25/07/2018
24
Birmingham based Home-Start will create a new part time role to provide targeted support for young parents and care leavers facing complex challenges amid a risk of loosing their child.
National Lottery Community Fund - IT training for vulnerable families
£9,334 22/02/2017
12
This group will use the funding to provide IT and internet skills training for vulnerable parents. Participants’ technology skills will be improved, making them more confident in using ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Families Together – Erdington, Stockland Green and Aston
£3,319 23/09/2016
7
A project to support families coming together from different cultures to learn English together.
National Lottery Community Fund - Extending Support for Families in Aston, Stockland Green and Edrington
£179,428 14/04/2014
48
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 43-81
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/02/2008, number: 1122603
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/05/2007, number: 06263702
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
  • Paying staff
  • 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
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

Enterprise House
656 Chester Road
Erdington
Birmingham
B23 5TE

Objectives

1 TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;2 TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;4 TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE;WITHIN THE AREA OF STOCKLAND GREEN AND ERDINSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

STOCKLAND GREEN AND ERDINSTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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