Home-Start Walsall

Analysis

Home-Start Walsall is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Mildenhall. It was registered in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05575101). It says it provides human resources, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Home-Start Walsall reported income of £98k and spending of £131k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £82k to £98k (+18%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Home-Start Walsall sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include For Us Too (£98k), Kharpp Ltd (£98k) and Whirley Pre School Group (£97k).

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.