Home-Start Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre

Analysis

Home-Start Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Blackpool. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, accommodation/housing and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06591166). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Home-Start Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre reported income of £287k and spending of £401k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £290k to £287k (-0.9%), an average of -0.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 101% 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 Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (£287k), Gillani Noor Masjid (£287k) and National Emergency Services Museum (£287k).