Home-Start Erewash

Analysis

Home-Start Erewash is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ilkeston. It was registered in December 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05303098). It says it provides human resources, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Home-Start Erewash reported income of £160k and spending of £182k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £234k to £160k (-32%), an average of -9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Home-Start Erewash sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fighting Fit Torfaen (£160k), The National Society for Phenylketonuria (United Kingdom) Limited (£160k) and The Almshouse of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist (£160k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.