Home-Start Southwark and Lewisham

Analysis

Home-Start Southwark and Lewisham is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in 82 Tanner Street. It was registered in December 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Home-Start Southwark and Lewisham reported income of £367k and spending of £385k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £417k to £367k (-12%), an average of -3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Home-Start Southwark and Lewisham sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Beginnings Reading (£367k), The Friendly Almshouses (£368k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Cullompton (£367k).