Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 4

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 5

HOME-START ST. HELENS LTD.

Home-Start St. Helens Limited is a registered charity that offers support, friendship and practical help to families with children during difficult times in their lives. The organisation provides family support through its home visiting services, which matches parents with volunteers, who visit the family at home each week.

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 including the Government
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Established: 10 years

homestartsthelen@btconnect.com

01744737400

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	*	£320	£334	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	56
31/03/22		£278	£250	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
31/03/21		£182	£134	£48	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	31
31/03/20	*	£185	£136	£50	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	43
31/03/19		£121	£124	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/18		£133	£125	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£141	£133	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£130	£132	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

St Helens,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
56 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
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start St Helens
£105,000	10/02/2022 36	towards three years' continuation funding of an organisation providing volunteer home visiting for vulnerable families and young people in St Helens, Merseyside.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Home-Start St Helens
£105,000	12/12/2018 36	towards three years' running costs of a Home-Start working with vulnerable families in a deprived area of Merseyside
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Home-Start St Helens
£15,000	01/03/2017	Towards recruitment and training for volunteers

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 64-79

CARMELA CLARKE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Teaching Assistant

ELIZABETH DODSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: CRONTON C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL FUND, AFRICA'S CHILDREN IN EDUCATION,

JOHN COLMAN MURRAY Appointed: 2014, Occupation: None

LINDA RUTH HINDLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee

PAUL CROWE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired

PATRICIA JANET AINSCOUGH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Occupational Therapist

PETA GRIMSHAW Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

SUSAN MARIE JAMESON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/03/2014, number: 1155988
Registered at Companies House on 29/11/2013, number: 08796050

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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

9 returns made; AR23: 26 days late, AR20: 51 days late,

Main office

PETER STREET CENTRE
PETER STREET
ST. HELENS

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: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 ST HELENS AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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