Home-Start HOST

Analysis

Home-Start HOST is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Audenshaw. It was registered in May 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Home-Start HOST reported income of £2.5m and spending of £2.6m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.2m to £2.5m (+107%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 94% 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 HOST sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson (£2.5m), Rays of Sunshine (£2.6m) and International Glaucoma Association Limited (£2.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 96% and trading 2.6%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.9%. Reserves of £874k would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate. It employed 67 people.