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Home-Start Kennet Annual Report and Accounts 2020-2021

Contents

Home-Start Kennet Annual Report and Accounts 2020-2021 ................................................................ 1 About Home-Start Kennet ...................................................................................................................... 2 There for parents when they need us the most ................................................................................. 2 Our Mission ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Constitution ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Board of Trustees April 2018 - March 2019 ............................................................................................ 3 Committees ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Designated Trustees ............................................................................................................................... 3 Staff Team 2020-2021 ............................................................................................................................. 3 Chair’s Annual Report ............................................................................................................................. 4 A period of change .............................................................................................................................. 4 The staff .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Supporting Families ............................................................................................................................ 6 Volunteers ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Trustees ............................................................................................................................................... 7 Partners ............................................................................................................................................... 7 The Future ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Our work with families ............................................................................................................................ 8 Sources of Referalls ................................................................................................................................. 8 The Circumstances of Supported Families .............................................................................................. 8 Outcomes ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Family Quotes ......................................................................................................................................... 9 Scheme Manager’s Report .................................................................................................................... 10 Working during a pandemic .............................................................................................................. 10 Staff ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Families ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Half Term Packs ................................................................................................................................. 11 Volunteers ......................................................................................................................................... 12 In Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Treasurer’s Report 2020-2021 .............................................................................................................. 13 Thank you .............................................................................................................................................. 15 Accounts 2020-2021 ............................................................................................................................. 17

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About Home-Start Kennet

Home-Start Kennet is a registered charity, based in Wiltshire. We support local families from all backgrounds, through their most challenging times .

Being a parent has never been easy. It can be lonely, frustrating, heart-breaking and overwhelming. Lifechanging events can happen to anyone.

All parents struggle at one time or another. We are there to support families through their toughest times. Families we help may be facing challenges such as:

There for parents when they need us the most

We have a wonderful, committed team of volunteers who visit families once a week, in their own homes, for 2-3 hours. They aim to build family resilience, confidence and wellbeing. Our volunteers offer no judgement; just compassionate, confidential help and support.

Our Mission

Home-Start Kennet offers non-judgemental support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children. We train and supervise volunteers to visit families at home, or support them through group activities, working together in an informal, flexible and confidential way. We work with families at times of difficulty to promote family resilience and improve children’s life chances; our aim is to empower parents to give their children the best possible start in life.

During the pandemic we changed the way we offered support moving to telephone and video calls to support families. We also started sending out activity packs during lockdown in 2020. We are looking forward to moving back to face to face and in-home support going forward.

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Constitution

Home-Start Kennet is a Company Limited by Guarantee – Registration Number 5208226 – governed by a Memorandum and Articles of Association (incorporated on 17.08.04), and has a Charity Registration Number: 1106736. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member.

Registered Office: Unit 1, Fordbrook Business Centre, Pewsey, SN9 5NU E: hskadmin@homestartkennet.co.uk; T: 01672 569457 W:www.homestartkennet.co.uk

Board of Trustees April 2018 - March 2019

Chair Jo Owen-Jones Treasurer Marcia Johnson
Trustee Sheree Whorlow Trustee Susan Pitcher
(Co-opted 1 Feb 2021)
Trustee Wendy Stuart Trustee Alison Millett
(Resigned Oct 2020)
Trustee Lt Col Mick Haynes Trustee Eileen Emptage
(Resigned May 2021)

We are seeking to appoint new trustees, up to a maximum of twelve. Applicants should have an interest in children, young families or the voluntary sector. Successful candidates will be co-opted and come up for election at the next AGM. Induction and further training opportunities are provided. Full details are available on request.

Committees

There are two sub-committees, which meet regularly and report to the Board: Human Resources (HR) Committee – Chair – Sheree Whorlow Finance and Fundraising (F & F) Committee – Chair – Marcia Johnson

Designated Trustees

Data Protection - Wendy Stuart; Health and Safety - Mick Haynes; Safeguarding - Jo Owen-Jones

Staff Team 2020-2021

Staff Team 2020-2021
Scheme Manager Tania Rackham (on maternity from Oct 1st2020)
Scheme Manager Maternity Cover Fiona-Le-Bon (Aug 20-March 21), (Lisa Kinnaird recruited May
21)
Family Support Organisers Teng Smith, Edwina Astle (resigned July 20), Caz Flippance
Alison Sage (retired Sept 20), Tanya Dale (started Oct 20). Aisling
Hunt (started Nov 20)
Family Group Leader & FSO Claire Ansell
Senior Administrator Dawn Wilson
Project Data Evaluation Lead Carol Adams (retired March 2021)
Administrator (for Lamplight) Sam Check (started Dec 20)
Finance Officer Frank Pessell
Fundraiser and Community
Engagement. Joanne Kent

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Chair’s Annual Report

This has once again been a very challenging year for everyone. We moved from lockdown in April 2020 to a period of relative freedom in the summer of 2020 but just as we were considering some return to normal working practices along came the second wave and the prolonged lockdown which took us into the spring of 2021. The vaccination programme was wonderful news but as our families and most of the staff are in the younger age groups, they are only now becoming eligible for vaccination. I am very hopeful that once this cohort has been protected, we will be able to get back to doing what we do best very soon – offering in house support to families with young children to ensure for them the best start in life. Research (from The Best Start for Life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days) which was published in March 2021, has shown just how important it is for their whole life ahead that children should have a loving and nurturing start. Here at HSK we are committed to helping parents who are going through a difficult time for whatever reason. Our trained volunteers listen in a non-judgemental way, signpost and show parents through structured play how much fun their children can be.

With the restrictions imposed on seeing people inside and, in the early stages meeting people at all, HSK had to adapt swiftly to new ways of working and new ways of offering support. Many positives have come out of this. The staff team, helped by volunteers, delivered activity packs to families at Christmas and Easter and half term breaks to help give children books and play activities to promote learning in an easy way. Food parcels were arranged where FSOs identified need and IT support was also given to enable vulnerable families to stay connected and access benefits.

Contact with families in the early stages was by phone and/or video calls. We also ran groups on line such as first aid for babies and children, particularly useful at a time when people were having difficulty or were reluctant to contact their doctors.

We were greatly helped in providing this support by donations of books from the Marlborough LitFest provided by The White Horse Book shop in Marlborough and some from Caroline Franklin of Ramsbury. Waitrose in Marlborough supplied mince pies, chocolates and biscuits for the Christmas hampers and help for funding these hampers came from Children in Need and Tesco. The John Lewis partnership have been promoting and helping Home-Starts this year through the Give a little Love project organised by HSUK and we have received donations of warm clothing and tree decorations from White Stuff who are also promoting HS this year through a similar HSUK scheme. Our Treasurer will give more detail about all the various funding streams we have received in her report. We are extremely grateful for all this support and would like to thank everyone who has donated gifts and money whether large or small throughout this difficult year.

It has been very encouraging to receive such support from our parent organisation, HSUK both via the projects mentioned above but also via webinars and frequent video updates from the CEO Peter Griggs who is really making a difference at the helm.

A period of change

We have managed to go through a period of extensive organisational change within the charity during 2020-21. The old data system run by HSUK, MESH, finally closed down at the end of March 2021. The administration team put a huge amount of work into transferring data onto our new case record

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management system, Lamplight, and at the time of writing all staff are being trained to use this. Ultimately this system will save everyone a lot of time as there will be no paper records and data will be entered directly into the Lamplight data system. This will enable easier searches for data for reports, bid writing and evaluation and will ensure a consistent approach to recording information.

At the same time the new accounting package, Xero, has gone live and this will ultimately allow us to produce easier year end and budget reports and will help our account independent examiners, Charlton Baker, who use the same system and who have been helping to train our financial officer in the use of Xero.

We also have a new website which is more modern looking and more user-friendly. This gave us considerable teething problems initially but thanks to Dawn’s perseverance we can now update it relatively easily and keep our friends up to date with the latest news and allow potential families to contact us in a straightforward manner.

A text service was introduced to make it easy for families to get in touch and find out more about how HSK can help. They simply text Family to 66777 and one of the FSOs responds within a couple of days to see what support is needed.

The staff

There have been major changes within the staff team during this year too. Tania left to go on maternity leave in October and is now a proud Mum – many congratulations. We recruited a maternity cover replacement, Fiona Le-Bon, who was with us until March when, for family reasons, sadly she had to leave. During her time, she worked hard to bring the Team together and organised a team building workshop to help to identify everyone’s strengths. We were able to use this to help us put in place a temporary interim management team (IMT) while we recruited a new maternity cover Scheme Manager for the rest of Tania’s maternity leave. Dawn, Jo and Teng volunteered to step up and take on the responsibility of running HSK supported by the HR committee. We had weekly meetings and the IMT did a fantastic job holding things together and continuing to take things forward as well as supporting the new replacement Scheme Manager, Lisa Kinnaird, who started in early May. I would like to express my huge thanks to all the team for their work through this difficult time but particularly the IMT. The extra skills that they have developed during this period will continue to be put to good use in supporting the running of HSK in the future.

There have been changes in the FSO team as well. Edwina Astle left in July 2020 and Alison Sage retired in September. We wish them both well for the future. Particular thanks go to Alison for her time both as our administrator and then latterly as an FSO. We were able to recruit two new FSOs using remote technology and welcomed Tanya Dale in October and Aisling Hunt in November. They have had a challenging first few months trying to get to grips with the role and getting to know the team while working remotely but have risen to the challenge very well and are now starting to be able to do home visits in person. The office was made more Covid secure by the introduction of Perspex screens and strict protocols which has meant that some office working has been possible since the spring though full team meetings and most work has continued to be via Microsoft Teams.

The administration team has seen changes too. Carol Adams sadly retired in April after a sterling last push to get the data sorted out for the Lamplight transfer. Many thanks to her for all the effort that has gone into this. We were very fortunate to be able to recruit Sam Check in January to help the admin team. Sam is one of our volunteers and has extensive knowledge of both accounting and administration systems.

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Dawn has taken on the responsibility of supervising the administration team and together with Frank they provide wonderful support to the organisation.

Supporting Families

Group work was important during the last twelve months as a way of reaching out to families and supporting them remotely and we were able to reach some parents who would otherwise have had difficulties in accessing information and a feeling of community. The children and babies first aid course was delivered by Louise Worsley, an external first aid trainer, and reached some fathers (even those posted overseas) as well as mothers. Funded by the Army Benevolent Fund - The Soldier’s charity, it enabled us to help to bring Tidworth’s military and civilian families together as there was an opportunity for chatting after the training. The chance to reach both parents was welcome as we try hard to be as inclusive as possible.

As lockdown started to ease we began to plan to hold buggy walks in local parks just as a way of getting isolated parents and their babies and toddlers together. The lockdowns have been particularly hard on parents with new babies as the normal networks have not been available and we wanted to reach out to this group.

We have been looking long and hard at the benefits versus the drawbacks of remote working for the staff team and have concluded that a degree of hybrid working will be the answer for all for the time being. This is under constant review in order to get the best balance between support and mentoring and peace and quiet for report writing and phone calls. One consequence of remote working has been an improvement in our green footprint as far fewer journeys have been made in the past year. We aim to get back to home visiting which is our core priority but also to hold onto the extra services that we have found that we can offer to some families who may prefer this.

Volunteers

The volunteer numbers have been boosted by a successful online preparation course. This is the first time the course has been delivered in this way and it involved a lot of preparatory work by the whole team to ensure that things ran smoothly both from the IT point of view and from the delivery and content perspective. It ran for seven weeks during February and March 2021 and was followed up with everyone finally getting together in person in April for a chance to chat. I am delighted to welcome nine new volunteers from this course some of whom were swiftly matched with families or involved with group or other supportive work for families such as helping to pack up and deliver the family gift bags. A further volunteer preparation course has been planned for October when we hope we will be able to go back to face to face delivery though the potential remains for some mixed remote and in person training if needed.

Like much else over Christmas 2020, our party for volunteers and staff was cancelled but Caz organised a very enjoyable pre-Christmas quiz on line which was very well attended. Jo Kent has also organised virtual coffee mornings for volunteers and this summer (2021) a trip to Corsham Court gardens was organised to thank volunteers for their continuing support in difficult circumstances. The peer support training groups have continued on line but sadly Zoom does not allow for the invaluable chatting to other volunteers and just picking up tips from talking to others in person so we look forward to being able to get together again. Pewsey rugby club (always great supporters of HSK) have very kindly allowed us to rent their large function room which ensures distanced meetings in person are now possible.

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As always, I would like to thank all the wonderful volunteers in whatever capacity they have helped, for the gift of their time and commitment to HSK. We couldn’t offer this help without you. I have not included quotes from families here but I would suggest a look at the document “Our Covid year 20-21” (available on our website under Documents) which gives details of exactly how much impact you have had.

The above document was authored by Alison Millett who sadly retired as a trustee after ten years of sterling service at the last AGM. She very generously agreed to continue in her role as an evaluator and she helped to set up an evaluation group which has been meeting regularly to look at the data and feedback from families to inform the way we plan going forward.

Trustees

We have been fortunate in recruiting Susan Pitcher as a new trustee to the board. She has been a head teacher and has had previous experience as a chair of a small charity. We are still actively recruiting new trustees to ensure smooth succession plans for the future stability of HSK.

My particular thanks this year go to the Sheree Whorlow and Mick Haynes on the HR committee for giving a lot of their time supporting the IMT while we were recruiting a new stand in Scheme Manager. Marcia Johnson as ever has kept us financially on track and Wendy Stuart has been co-ordinating and writing up our strategic plans. Thank you to all for freely giving your time and brain power to ensuring the governance of HSK.

Partners

Networking outside the organisation has of course been more difficult this year. We have kept in touch with HS South Wilts but have not had any joint projects this year. Health visiting has been much reduced and children’s centres have in some cases been closed as were schools in the early part of the year. This has all led to a downturn in numbers of referrals from outside agencies though self-referrals have gone up somewhat in 2020-21. As lockdown eased so the numbers being referred and general enquiries have steadily gone up so we are hoping to be able to reach out to a much higher number of families with small children in 2021-22.

There is a general concern that some safeguarding issues may not have been picked up during the lockdowns due to the lack of statutory visits and school attendance. We have continued to require annual safeguarding training from staff and volunteers and this has been on line. The importance of vigilance even when making remote contact with families has been stressed.

The Future

Looking forward I am hopeful that with vaccination numbers ever rising, we will have a better twelve months ahead of us. We have done some work towards our stated plan to run a pilot offering Home-Start support in Swindon. Unfortunately, with the change of Scheme Manager we had not made much progress but have very recently had the offer of a meeting which we hope will open some doors and allow us to look at the need and what we can offer to Swindon families.

We are also planning to prioritise our presence on social media in view of the fact that this seems to be the best way to give young families information about all that HSK can offer, not just the home visits but groups such as baby massage, holiday activity support groups, school readiness and much more. We want to do all that we can to make those first 1001 days of life as positive as possible.

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Our work with families

Total number of families supported in 2020 – 2021 63 Total number of families supported in groups 25 Number of children supported this year 117

Sources of Referalls

Sources of Professional Referrals 2019-20 2020-2021
Health Visitor 20% 17%
Children’s Centre 20% 14%
Midwifery 1% 3%
Social Worker 5% 3%
Education 6% 8%
Other 6.4% 25%
Self Referrals 35% 29%

You will note that the number of referrals from other sources such as housing officers and women’s refuge, increased during the pandemic as did those from educational settings.

The Circumstances of Supported Families

The chart below illustrates the circumstances of the families we have supported over the past year.

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Family Circumstances
Teenage Pregnancy
Interpreter Required
Post natal depression
Learning Disabilities
Mental Health
Domestic Abuse
Substance Abuse
Lone Parent
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
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Several of these families selected multiple options, which is an indicator of more complex needs (for example, a lone parent might also have been struggling with mental health difficulties).

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Outcomes

Title Total Families Need
Achieved		 Need Partially
Achieved		 %
Achieved
Managing children’s behaviour 10 7 1 80%
Being involved in the children’s
development/learning		 9 7 2 100%
Coping with physical health 13 6 1 54%
Coping with mental health 12 7 1 67%
Coping with feeling isolated 13 8 2 77%
Parent’s self-esteem 13 6 0 46%
Coping with child’s physical health 11 9 1 91%
Coping with child’s mental health 10 8 2 100%
Managing the household budget 10 9 0 90%
The day-to-day running of the home 10 6 3 90%
Stress caused by conflict in the
family		 11 7 2 82%
Coping with extra work of multiple
children under 5		 6 3 1 67%
Use of services 13 9 1 77%
Other 5 1 0 20%
Parents own learning needs 4 3 0 75%

It is notable that being involved in the children’s development/learning has continued at 100% again this year. Coping with a child’s physical health has fallen by 9%, feeling isolated increased by 10% and stress caused by conflict in the family has risen by 35% from last year.

Family Quotes

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"Being able to talk about my
problems that I had throughout the
week", "(the volunteer) giving
insight into children’s needs", and “I
was able to rant!" Parent receiving
telephone support 2020
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“Being with my volunteer changed my life
and changed me completely.” (Parent
2020)
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Scheme Manager’s Report

The team had two managers during this period. Tania Rackham went through a challenging time from April to October in lockdown 1 with her pregnancy and working remotely. Fiona Le-Bon joined us in August 2020 to enable a smooth handover while Tania was on maternity leave.

Neither are in post at the point of writing this report (Summer 2021). A second maternity cover manager, Lisa Kinnaird, was recruited in May 2021. Therefore, we will use excerpts from the latest evaluation report “Our covid year”, written by Alison Millet and available on our website, which provides more insight into this challenging period.

Working during a pandemic

When the Covid pandemic took hold in March 2020, and lockdown brought the closure of schools, nurseries, toddler groups and even outdoor play facilities, the lives of local families were completely disrupted. Many supported parents had already been experiencing problems with behaviour management and became acutely anxious about requests to home-school their children. Families were suddenly isolated, and stresses that existed before the crisis quickly intensified. With little or no opportunity for family members, friends and professionals to notice warning signs or raise concerns, Wiltshire’s Safeguarding Vulnerable People Partnership reported that the children’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub received a worrying fall in average weekly referrals, down by 100 per week (May 2020), and highlighted an anticipated increase in coercive control as lockdown measures relaxed, as well as an increase in poverty. Our colleagues at Wiltshire Money reported a rising number of debt enquiries, with 72% being from women.

Staff

At Home-Start Kennet, staff, trustees and volunteers had to adapt to completely new ways of working. The office was closed, and staff all worked from home, juggling work pressures with their own family’s needs. They had to quickly adopt new and unfamiliar ways of online working and record keeping. Volunteers also had to cease face-to-face home visits and develop telephone skills in their place, as well as managing the effects of lockdown on their own families.

The staff have been asked to take on board working via video with Microsoft Teams and Zoom, two new data recording systems – the Xero financial package for record-keeping, and the Lamplight Case Record Management System - and build a new website during the year. In all cases they have received training and support, but their willingness to take on new challenges has been exceptional.

Two Family Support Organisers (FSOs), Edwina and Alison decided to move on or retire towards the end of summer 2020. This led to a round of recruiting completed online to maintain the staff hours for the organisation and provide maternity cover for Tania. We welcomed Fiona Le-Bon as Scheme Manager with Tanya and Aisling joining the team as FSOs in October and November, followed a month later by Sam to support the admin team. Sadly, circumstances meant Fiona left us in March 2021 and so a second maternity cover manager was sought. In the interim a management team was put in place to keep work progressing. (Lisa Kinnaird joined us in May 2021).

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Families

HSK responded rapidly to the Covid-19 emergency; we immediately began offering extended periods of intensive telephone support to families, providing emotional support and helping them to navigate through an extremely stressful and worrying situation. Group support was quickly transferred to virtual delivery. It became clear that families felt daunted and didn’t know where to start – we helped them organise how they were going to access food and medicines, shared resources with them regarding a range of issues (such as setting up new routines, and ideas for indoor play), helped them to make connections with new Covid community support networks and funded emergency essentials. Many families were suffering an exacerbation of their problems, but some were finding, for example, that the increased presence of fathers was beneficial.

As the year progressed to autumn, we began to offer outdoor visits to families. This gave children and families valuable face to face contact with volunteers and, for some, the chance to have fun in the playground again! Recent volunteer feedback showed how positive meeting in the park was for one child and her mum. The volunteer enjoyed it too and marvelled at how the little girl "had grown so much!"

Half Term Packs

Activity packs for October 2020 Half Term and “Halloween” were packed by volunteers and then delivered or posted first class to 13 families currently active or just ended.

My children loved receiving the half term packs, they were so excited when they opened up their new books, colouring and activities, keeping them busy while I get on with cooking and cleaning, it’s a lifesaver (Parent, 2020)

These packs proved so popular that we have given out other activity packs at Christmas, Easter and during the summer holidays, as well as providing day trips to support mental wellness.

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Volunteers

Training new volunteers was a challenge. The new cohort had only had one session in March 2020 when we went into the first lockdown. It wasn’t until January 2021 that they finally completed their training online! What an amazingly patient group.

As always, we would like to extend a special thank you to each of the 30 plus volunteers who make what we do possible:

Hannah, Dawn, Jane C, Jane B, Em, Pam, Felicity, Elizabeth S, Mary C, Victoria, Sandra, Dawn, Kristy, Sally, Richard, Ruth, Susan, Karen Mac, Karen Mor, Lucy, Peter, Rose, Katja, Sue, Angie, Elizabeth C, Julie, Catherine, Maddy, Jenny, Angie, Sally, Naomi and Mary E

In Summary

As the year drew to a close in April 2021 we celebrate surviving where others, sadly, have not. Securing our third round of Lottery funding in March 2020 was incredibly timely. Securing further Covid related funds to support our families made all the difference to what we could offer when normal life was a distant dream. Further lockdowns pre and post-Christmas have again restricted our ability to offer face to face support. As 2021 progresses we foresee an increasing workload so volunteer recruitment is again a priority as is the need to add to the board of trustees who have provided support above and beyond during such a challenging time.

Jo and volunteers at White Horse Bookshop choosing donated books for October Gift bags.

Caz collecting the Christmas Gifts from Lisa, Waitrose Community Liaison from their Christmas Campaign

Caz and Jo sorting out the White Stuff donation Christmas 2020

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Treasurer’s Report 2020-2021

The Independent Examiner’s Report and Annual Accounts give a full and detailed picture of the income and expenditure of Home-Start Kennet for the year ending 31st March 2021. The division of the expenditure between charitable activities and governance shows that 2.1% of our income was spent on the latter.

A successful application for £410,000 over three years starting April 2020 was made to The National Lottery Community Fund. This, combined with the ongoing three-year grant from the Henry Smith Charity and grants from The Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon, Tampon Tax Community Fund and The Co-op Community Fund, meant that HSK was in a position to continue supporting families during the pandemic. However, home visiting ceased for an extended period and telephone or Zoom support was given instead.

A grant from the Army Benevolent Fund was used to support virtual Groups in Tidworth. While a threeyear grant from Children in Need is providing funding for targeted work with children.

Grants were received during the year from Tesco Bags of Help Covid-19 Communities Fund, DCMS Loneliness Fund (via HSUK) and the Lottery Coronavirus Support Fund. These enabled us to support families by offering help when they struggled to purchase essential items, provide activity packs for children and Christmas packs to families. In kind donations for some of the packs were provided by John Lewis/Waitrose and White Stuff.

Additional income was raised from small donations but fundraising activities ceased.

There was a significant underspend due to a reduction in referrals and home visiting ceasing which meant there was minimal money spent on travel.

The balance sheet at 31st March 2021 shows assets less current liabilities of £128,854 (£70,177 in 2019/2020). Much of this money is in restricted funds and must be used to support the projects for which the grants were awarded. Also included is a prepayment (£14,428) to Green Machines for IT support for the next three years.

HSK also holds sufficient funds in reserve so that if there was a sudden loss of grant funding there would not be an abrupt cessation of support to vulnerable families. Money is also held to cover a contingent liability to TPT, HSK’s Pension Provider.

We would like to thank all our funders and everyone else who has supported the Hone-Start Kennet.

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Exemption from the appointment of auditors

For the year ending 31 March 2021 the Company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477(2) of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

Marcia Johnson Honorary Treasurer

This report was approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf:

Signed _______ Date: October 4[th] 2021

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Thank you

To all who supported us through Amazon Smiles, Localgiving, and Payroll Giving. To all Volunteers and Trustees who donate their expenses.

To all of those listed below and to our anonymous donors:

National LotteryCommunityFund Tesco Bags of Help
A Millett Pewsey Rugby Club
ABF The Soldiers’ Charity Co-op Community Fund
Bath University Rotork Challenge Team Devizes Lions
Henry Smith Children in Need
The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust Wiltshire & Swindon Community Foundation
Tampon Tax Community Fund Holly Faulkner
St George’s Church Preshute J & K Saunders
M Yates P & J Noble
Waitrose Marlborough Waitrose Melksham
HJ & EJ O’Regan Birley
Mr. & Mrs. Marais Easterton Parish Council
Penny Teather Kate Fry
JF & MB Adey Morrisons
Pewsey Co-op J. Clark
HSUK Government Loneliness Covid 19 Fund National Lottery – Coronavirus Virus Community
Support Fund
Marlborough LitFest R & J Owen-Jones
LCpl Chris Jamieson Bel Crompton
F Pessell

Thank you to all of our partners and referrers:

ArmyWelfare Service Spurgeons Children’s Charity
Home-Start South Wiltshire The Rise Trust
Home-Start UK Unit Welfare Officers
Parent Support Advisers Virgin Care Services
Splitz Support Service Wiltshire Public Health

And finally a thank you to all those companies and individuals who donated time or other resources to our organisation and the families we support.

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Accounts 2020-2021

COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER 05208226

ENGLAND & WALES

REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1106736

HOME-START KENNET

COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE

ACCOUNTS

31 MARCH 2021

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES - Year Ended 31 March 2021

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IN
FUNDS
Reconciliation of Funds
Funds brought Forward
FUNDS
CARRIED
FORWARD		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
3,300
125
3,425
3,085
205
3,290
135
0
135
60,565
60,700		 Restricted
Funds
£
115,621
0
115,621
115,551
3557
119,108
(3,487)
0
(3,487)
9,612
6,125		 BIG
Lottery
Funds
£
150,000
0
150,000
87,412
558
87,971
62,029
0
62,029
0
62,029		 Total
Funds
2021
£
268,921
125
269,046

206,048
4,320
210,368
58,677
0
58,677
70,177
128,854		 Total
Funds
2020
£
149,487
690
150,177
197,241
7,215
204,456
(54,279)
0
(54,279)
124,456
70,177

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BALANCE SHEET - as at 31 March 2021

BALANCE SHEET - as at 31 March 2021
Note
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
8
Cash at Bank and in hand
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year
9
NET CURRENT ASSETS
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES
Other provisions (existing)
10
NPV of deficit recovery contributions
11
NET ASSETS
FUNDS
Restricted
12
Unrestricted
13
Total		 31.03.21
£
14,643
170,935
185,577
30,064
155,514
155,514
20,335
6,325
128,854
68,154
60,700
128,854		 31.03.20
£
20,195
121,097
141,292
42,393
98,899
98,899
21,228
7,494
70,177
9,612
60,565
70,177

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006, Charities SORP FRS102.

For the year ending 31 March 2021 the Company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006.

The members have not required the Company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The Directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:

i) ensuring the Company keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006 and ii) preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at the end of the financial year, and of its profit or loss for the financial year, in accordance with the requirements of section 393, and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to Accounts, so far as is applicable to the Company.

The accounts on pages 18 to 31 were approved by the Board of Trustees on: October 4[th] 2021________ Marcia Johnson, Treasurer and Trustee

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (Charities SORP FRS102) and the Charities Act 2006.

Going concern

Sources of substantial funding for the charity continue, so the trustees are confident that the charity will be able to continue as a going concern for the following twelve months.

Donations

Grants and donations are allocated to income in the accounting period to which the funds relate. They are recognised as soon as the Charity is informed, they are due and receivable. Tax recoverable on Gift Aid donations is recognised when the donation is recognised.

Fixed assets

It is the policy of the charity to write off in the year of purchase any individual item of equipment costing less than £2,000. Items of equipment costing in excess of £2,000 and considered to be worth more than that at the Balance Sheet date, will be capitalised and depreciated at rates to be determined at the time.

Governance costs

Governance costs are made up of Management Committee expenses, Consultancy Fees, Independent Examination expenses, Book Keeping and Accountancy costs, and staff costs relating to Quality Assurance compliance.

Pension costs – current service

The Charity operates a money purchase (defined contribution) pension scheme for the benefit of its current employees who wish to join and become members. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the Home-Start Kennet. Contributions are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period in which they fall due. Home-Start Kennet and the members each paid contributions at the rate of 5% during the accounting period to The Pensions Trust. There were no unpaid contributions at the balance sheet date.

Pension provision – past service

SCHEME: TPT Retirement Solutions – The Growth Plan

The company participates in the scheme, a multi-employer scheme which provides benefits to some 950 nonassociated participating employers. The scheme is a defined benefit scheme in the UK. It is not possible for the company to obtain sufficient information to enable it to account for the scheme as a defined benefit scheme. Therefore, it accounts for the scheme as a defined contribution scheme.

The scheme is subject to the funding legislation outlined in the Pensions Act 2004 which came into force on 30 December 2005. This, together with documents issued by the Pensions Regulator and Technical Actuarial Standards issued by the Financial Reporting Council, set out the framework for funding defined benefit occupational pension schemes in the UK.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Year ended 31 March 2021

The scheme is classified as a 'last-man standing arrangement'. Therefore, the company is potentially liable for other participating employers' obligations if those employers are unable to meet their share of the scheme deficit following withdrawal from the scheme. Participating employers are legally required to meet their share of the scheme deficit on an annuity purchase basis on withdrawal from the scheme.

A full actuarial valuation for the scheme was carried out at 30 September 2017. This valuation showed assets of £794.9m, liabilities of £926.4m and a deficit of £131.5m. To eliminate this funding shortfall, the Trustee has asked the participating employers to pay additional contributions to the scheme as follows:

Deficit contributions

From 1 April 2019 to 31 £11,243,000 per annum (payable monthly and January 2025: increasing by 3% each on 1st April)

Unless a concession has been agreed with the Trustee the term to 31 January 2025 applies.

Note that the scheme’s previous valuation was carried out with an effective date of 30 September 2014. This valuation showed assets of £793.4m, liabilities of £969.9m and a deficit of £176.5m. To eliminate this funding shortfall, the Trustee has asked the participating employers to pay additional contributions to the scheme as follows:

Deficit contributions

From 1 April 2016 to 30 £12,945,440 per annum (payable monthly and September 2025: increasing by 3% each on 1st April) From 1 April 2016 to 30 £54,560 per annum (payable monthly and increasing September 2028: by 3% each on 1st April)

The recovery plan contributions are allocated to each participating employer in line with their estimated share of the Series 1 and Series 2 scheme liabilities.

Where the scheme is in deficit and where the company has agreed to a deficit funding arrangement the company recognises a liability for this obligation. The amount recognised is the net present value of the deficit reduction contributions payable under the agreement that relates to the deficit. The present value is calculated using the discount rate detailed in these disclosures. The unwinding of the discount rate is recognised as a finance cost

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

PRESENT VALUES OF PROVISION

RECONCILIATION OF OPENING AND CLOSING PROVISIONS

Period Ending
Period Ending
31-Mar-21
31-Mar-20
(£s)
(£s)
Provision at start of period 7,494
9,091
Unwinding of the discount factor (interest expense) 169
115
Deficit contribution paid (1,554)
(1,509)
Remeasurements - impact of any change in assumptions 216
(203)
Remeasurements - amendments to the contribution schedule -
-
Provision at end of period 6,325
7,494

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE IMPACT

Period Ending
Period Ending
31-Mar-21
31-Mar-20
(£s)
(£s)
Interest expense 169
115
Remeasurements – impact of any change in assumptions 216
-203
Remeasurements – amendments to the contribution schedule -
-
Contributions paid in respect of future service*
Costs recognised in income and expenditure account

*includes defined contribution schemes and future service contributions (i.e. excluding any deficit reduction payments) to defined benefit schemes which are treated as defined contribution schemes. To be completed by the company.

ASSUMPTIONS

31-Mar-21
31-Mar-20
31-Mar-19
% per annum
% per annum
% per annum
Rate of discount 0.66
2.53
1.39

The discount rates shown above are the equivalent single discount rates which, when used to discount the future recovery plan contributions due, would give the same results as using a full AA corporate bond yield curve to discount the same recovery plan contributions.

24

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

The following schedule details the deficit contributions agreed between the company and the scheme at each year end period:

DEFICIT CONTRIBUTIONS SCHEDULE

DEFICIT CONTRIBUTIONS SCHEDULE
Year ending 31-Mar-21
31-Mar-20
31-Mar-
19
(£s)
(£s)
(£s)
Year 1 1,601
1,554
1,509
Year 2 1,649
1,601
1,554
Year 3 1,698
1,649
1,601
Year 4 1,457
1,698
1,649
Year 5 -
1,457
1,698
Year 6 -
-
1,457
Year 7 -
-
-
Year 8 -
-
-
Year 9 -
-
-
Year 10 -
-
-
Year 11 -
-
-
Year 12 -
-
-
Year 13 -
-
-
Year 14 -
-
-
Year 15 -
-
-
Year 16 -
-
-
Year 17 -
-
-
Year 18 -
-
-
Year 19 -
-
-
Year 20 -
-
-

The company must recognise a liability measured as the present value of the contributions payable that arise from the deficit recovery agreement and the resulting expense in the income and expenditure account i.e. the unwinding of the discount rate as a finance cost in the period in which it arises.

It is these contributions that have been used to derive the company's balance sheet liability.

25

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

2.
GRANTS
AND
DONATIONS
BIG Lottery (GST)
Lottery
Corona
Virus
Support
Fund
HSUK/DCMS
Loneliness
Fund
Children in Need
Wilts
&
Swindon
Community Foundation
Zurich
Henry Smith
Army Benevolent Fund
Garfield Weston
Tampon Tax
The
Armed
Forces
Community Covenant
Royal British Legion MIMO
Chippenham
Borough
Lands
Co-op
Families Fund
Other Donations
Tesco Groundwork
Total
3. INVESTMENT INCOME
General Fund
Interest receivable		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
3,300
3,300
Unrestricted
Funds
£
125		 Restricted
Funds
£
13,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
50,500
15,000
1,543
5,515
563
3,000
1,500
115,621
Restricted
Funds
£
0		 BIG
Lottery
Fund
£
150,000
150,000
BIG
Lottery
Fund
£
0		 Total
Funds
2021
£
150,000
13,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
50,500
15,000
1,543
5,515
563
6,300
1,500
268,921
Total
Funds
2021
£
125		 Total
Funds
2020
£
9,568
4,000
5,000
4,000
36,500
9,195
20,000
4,875
16,800
11,083
10,758
5,052
1,825
10,830
149,487
Total
Funds
2020
£
690

26

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

4.
ANALYSIS
OF
EXPENDITURE
ON
CHARITABLE
ACTIVITIES
Employment
costs
(Note 6)
Staff travel & general
expenses
Staff training
Staff recruitment
Volunteer
travel
&
general expenses
Volunteer training
Rent and rates
Covid & Cleaning Costs
Telephone,
internet
and fax
Printing.
Post
and
stationery
Advertising
and
promotion
Service
charges
(Affiliation fees)
Insurance
Families fund expenses
Resilience building
Equipment purchase
Total		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
-
15
3,070
3,085		 Restricted
Funds
£
88,176
70
3,306
236
8,964
3,134
416
2,415
2,496
534
5,803
115,551		 BIG
Lottery
Fund
£
65,041
1,053
-
387
408
107
5,949
575
78
701
431
207
545
2,400
9,532
87,412		 Total
Funds
2021
£
153,217
-
1,123
3,306
387
644
107
14,913
575
3,227
1,118
2,846
2,703
1,079
5,803
5,470
9,532
206,048		 Total
Funds
2020
£

144,575
5,111
542
-
4,346
1,826
14,618
2,848
1,740
2,728
3,541
897
4,320
5,470
4,679
197,241

27

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

5.
GOVERNANCE
COSTS
Unrestricte
d
Restricted
Funds
Funds
£
£
Salaries
-
2,625
Consultancy fees
-
Independent
examination
205
-
Management
committee expenses
Management training
Governance General
158
Book
keeping
and
accountancy
774
Total
205
3,557
6. EMPLOYMENT COSTS
Salaries
Employer's NI
Pension expense - current
service
Pension - past service provision
for pension deficit
FRS102 - I&E finance expense re PV of pension deficit
contributions liability (Note 11)
Attributable to Charitable
activities
Attributable to
Governance
Total employment costs
There are no employees with emoluments exceeding £50,000
Number of staff
These were all part time positions and represent:
Average number of full time equivalent positions		 BIG
Lottery
Fund
£
-
-
112
446
558








2021
12
6.2		 BIG
Lottery
Fund
£
-
-
112
446
558








2021
12
6.2		 BIG
Lottery
Fund
£
-
-
112
446
558








2021
12
6.2		 Total
Funds
2021
£
2,625
-
205
112
-
158
1,220
4,320
2021
£
144,893
4,355
7,102
(893)
385
155,842
153,217
2,625
155,842
2020

 Total Funds
2020
£
2,500
523
250
701
702
390
2,149
7,215

2021		 2020
£
130,689
3,936
6,637
5,901
(88)
147,075
144,575
2,500
147,075

12
6.2
10
5.6

28

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

7. CORPORATION TAX

Home-Start Kennet is a registered charity and is therefore exempt from Corporation Tax

8.DEBTORS
Other debtors – Gift Aid
tax refund
Other debtors – Refund
Staff Training
Other debtors – Payment in Advance
Computer Contract
Other debtors – Prepaid Zoom
Subscription (10months)
Total
9. CREDITORS:
Amounts falling due
within one year
Creditors & accruals
Funds
received
in
advance
Total
10.
OTHER
PROVISIONS
(existing)
Provision for pension deficit (debt on
withdrawal)
Total
11.
NPV
OF
DEFICIT
RECOVERY
CONTRIBUTIONS
Net present value		 31.03.21
£
119
0
14,428
96
14,643
31.03.21
£
10,991
19,072
30,064
31.03.21
£
20,335
20,335
31.03.21
£
6,325		 31.03.20
£
287
10
19,898
0
20,195
31.03.20
£
2,350
40,043
42,393
31.03.20
£
21,228
21,228
31.03.20
£
7,494

29

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

12. RESTRICTED FUNDS: Movement
in resources
Balance
at
31.03.20
£
BIG Lottery (GST)
-
HSUK/DCMS Loneliness Fund
-
Lottery Corona Virus Support Fund
-
Families Fund
556
Army Benevolent Fund
530
Henry Smith
7,574
Children in Need
900
Co-Operative
-
Wiltshire & Swindon Community
Foundation
52
Tampon Tax
-
Tesco Groundwork
Total
9,612
13.
UNRESTRICTED
FUNDS
Balance
at
Transfer
31.03.20
£
£
General
29,918
-
Designated
30,647
-
Total
60,565
-		 Incoming
£
150,000
10,000
13,000
563
15,000
50,500
10,000
5,515
5,000
1,543
1,500
262,621
Incoming
£

3,425

3,000

6,425		 Outgoing
£
87,971
10,000
12,156
613
15,530
54,435
9,764
5,515
5,052
1,543
1,500
204,079
Outgoing
£
3,290
3,000
6,290		 Balance at
31.03.21
£
62,029
-
844
505
-
3,639
1,136
-
-
-
-
68,154


Balance at
31.03.21
£
30,053
30,647
60,700

30

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year ended 31 March 2021

14. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS
Restricted:
Big Lottery (GST)
Lottery Corona Virus Support
Fund
Families Fund
Children in Need
Henry Smith
Army Benevolent Fund
Wiltshire & Swindon Community
Foundation
General
Designated
Total		 Cash
at
Bank and
in hand
£
61,136
844
505
1,136
3,639
0
0
73,027
30,647
170,935		 Other net
assets
£
(42,081)
(42,081)		 Total
£
61,136
844
505
1,136
3,639
0
0
30,946
30,647
128,854

31