**REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 05282509 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1107019** **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **FOR** **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** Allen Accountants Ltd Suite 5, First Floor The Counting House Bonds Mill Estate Stonehouse Gloucestershire GL10 3RF **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ||**Page**| |---|---| |**Report of the Trustees**|1 to 5| |**Independent Examiner's Report**|6| |**Statement of Financial Activities**|7| |**Balance Sheet**|8| |**Notes to the Financial Statements**|9 to 13| |**Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**|14 to 15| **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019). Trustees are appointed in accordance with the charity's governing document and receive appropriate induction and training. The charity's operations are supported by 15 staff who deliver its activities. ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES Objectives and activities** Charitable Objectives: The charity's objectives, as set out in its governing document, are: 1. to safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical of children and parents of children; 2. to prevent cruelty to or maltreatment of children; 3. to relieve sickness, poverty and need amongst children and parents of children; 4. to promote the education of the public in better standards of childcare. Main Activities for Public Benefit: In fulfilling these objectives, the charity undertakes the following key activities: 1. Through home-visiting, group work and a programme focused on dads, we offer high quality support to families with children aged under 5 across Stroud district and Gloucester city. 2. Our services are targeted at families in demonstrable need, identified through referrals from professionals, partner agencies or self-referral processes. 3. To support our work, we engage local volunteers, providing training and experience, which contributes to community cohesion and skills development. 4. We aim to increase confidence, improve wellbeing, and reduce isolation. These outcomes are measured via feedback forms, consultation, and referral data. 5. We work in partnership across Gloucestershire to improve the lives of local families The trustees confirm that they have complied with the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit. Page 1 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE Year at a Glance** Across Stroud and Gloucester during 2024/25: - Our home-visiting service reached 107 families, and we triaged 193 referrals - We ran a total of 300 group sessions - We reached 569 families and 478 children through Group support And across the county through Dad Matters, we reached 1,336 dads and ran 60 groups. We celebrated our 25th anniversary in 2024 and held a Family and Volunteer tea party in the Summer. It was a fantastic way to spend an afternoon with volunteers and families together, celebrating 25 years of Home Start Stroud. ## Our Programme Home-Start Stroud and Gloucester believe passionately that supporting a parent, and other caregivers, in the first 1001 days of a child's life lays the foundations for their future development. Our programme supports this aims by providing nonjudgmental, practical and emotional support to vulnerable families in their own homes and through group support: Home Visiting: Offered to help families facing challenges such as isolation, the effects of post-natal illness, disability or mental health issues, bereavement, multiple births and poverty or financial difficulties. Trained volunteers help families with practical tasks, offer guidance and signpost for specialist support, advice, share their experience of being a parent and provide support through emotional issues. Visits happen regularly for as long as the family require support. Most families are referred to us by professionals. Mothers in Mind (MiMs) groups: Supporting mums experiencing poor mental health during the perinatal period and offering some additional 121 support where needed. These 10-week groups support mothers to attend a nonjudgmental space and share their stories of motherhood and the effects poor mental health have on the family system. We ran 6 MiMs groups in 2024/25 working with the mums to use yoga, journalling, and crafts as tools to express themselves and develop supportive techniques. Bump-Start (antenatal) support groups: A 5-week course for expectant vulnerable parents, promoting positive relationships with each other and their unborn baby, as well as 121 support for those who cannot or will not access groups. We ran 12 Bump-Start groups across the year and have continued to use the Stroud Maternity Hospital as a venue. In January 2025, we started a pilot project to provide extra support to parents at the end of their pregnancy and during the first few weeks of baby's life. Two volunteers are currently supporting families via the telephone. We will evaluate the impact of this additional support and expand it if capacity allows. Best-Start (postnatal) support groups: for vulnerable parents with 0-to 6-month-old babies. Sessions run over 6 weeks and focus on up-to date advice on topics such as teething, feeding, first aid, supporting early relationships, play, baby massage, routines, self-care and sleep. We ran 17 of these groups across the county during the year. Play-Start family fun group: a term time only, twice-weekly stay and play group situated in Forest Green - a community within an isolated area with transport links and high levels of need. Dad Matters Gloucestershire: is managed by each of the 3 Home-Starts in the county and runs 1-2-1 support for dads along with regular Dad wellbeing chats, stay and plays and Dad Walk and Talk sessions. There was also a weekly presence at Gloucester Royal Hospital where the team provided outreach support to dads visiting the antenatal clinic and maternity wards. The Dad Matters team also run a session at each of the Bump-Start groups to support dads attending. ## Challenges Recruiting and engaging volunteers continues to present a challenge. There are fewer people who have capacity to volunteer - many are looking after their own grandchildren more or needing to return to work in some capacity. We continually work hard to engage our volunteers. We introduced different ways for volunteers to support us including Group support (which is time limited and on regular days), the ability to do telephone support and scheduling training sessions in the early evening to avoid busy daytime diaries. Despite this, we have had to cancel some training during this period as engagement was low. Volunteering will be a key focus of 2025/26. ## Trends Ongoing pressures on statutory services, significant workforce gaps in the professional services we work with and the continuing impact of the pandemic on families means that we are receiving more referrals than ever that involve families with complex needs. In many cases, we make the difficult decision not to work with some families due to the level of need. We are seeing an increase in key issues such as social isolation, anxiety and poor mental health in adults and children, and we see first-hand how many children are not 'school ready' when the time comes. In Home Visiting we have seen an increase in neuro diverse parents; we tailor make our support and appreciate this can take more resource and time from a Coordinator. We have also experienced an increase in families referred who are affected by domestic abuse (past and present), more families reporting feeling let down by statutory services (not listened to, not supported) and an increase in teens accessing our prenatal services. Page 2 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** To better support the families' needs, our staff have taken trauma-informed approach training. To offer continued support for mums around the time of birth we are piloting additional volunteer-led telephone support. ## Responding to Need In 2024/25, we received 193 referrals for Home-Visiting support from professionals and 623 for Group attendance. Parents can self-refer to groups however, we receive many referrals from midwives, the Perinatal Infant Mental Health team, Early Help Targeted Family Support, Specialist Mental Health Nurses, social care teams and health visitors. Referral reasons vary, however the top three categories we saw referenced were: mental health issues, unsuitable housing, and debt. ## Working with Volunteers Our volunteers have continued to offer invaluable support to our families through home visiting and group this year. We recruited and trained 26 volunteers across three volunteer preparation courses (2 face to face and 1 hybrid) which last 8 weeks. We ended the year with 75 active volunteers, 63 of whom were visiting families and 12 of whom were attending groups to help our coordinator. ## Impact We use a range of evaluation tools to assess the impact of our work. We always seek to understand how a parent is feeling before we work with them to establish a baseline. This is then compared with a post-intervention assessment to evidence improvements. 66 families whose Home Visiting support ended during 2024/25 completed a survey with our coordinator. These improvements were reported: Mental health 41% Feelings of isolation 41% Confidence and self-esteem 43% Spending quality time with the children 27% The child/children's emotional wellbeing 28% In 2024/25 our Bump-Start evaluation demonstrated the following improvements: Parental Wellbeing 53% Parental Skills 58% Child's wellbeing 62% Family Management 47% And for Best-Start, the improvements were: Parental Wellbeing 64% Parental Skills 50% Child's wellbeing 40% Family Management 45% Mothers in Mind is evaluated using the accredited WEBWEMs evaluation tool which evidenced an average of 23% improvement in wellbeing (average score of 31 before attending the group which rose to an average of 38 at the end of the 10 weeks. A score of under 41 indicates clinical depression). Dad Matters reported the following impacts during the year: Peer Support Groups - 71% of participants reported improved confidence in being a father. - 73% experienced reduced feelings of anxiety. - 52% noted increased parental knowledge. ## One-to-One (121) Support - 95% of dads reported greater confidence in their fathering role. - 80% saw improvements in feelings of anxiety. - 49% gained enhanced parental knowledge. ## Partnership Approach We work in partnership across Gloucestershire to improve the lives of local families. The team at Home-Start Stroud and Gloucester have attended many events during the year to raise awareness, build partnerships, recruit volunteers, represent the voice of parents and contribute to policy discussions. Our Bump-Start Coordinator is a PIMH Champion for Home-Start UK, helping to develop training materials for Home-Start volunteers across the country. We attended meetings with social care teams in our locality to reiterate how we support families. We continued to regularly attend MNVP (Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership) meetings, and we have a representative on the Teen Pregnancy Working group for Gloucestershire, Antenatal education Working group for Gloucestershire, Infant Feeding Strategy Group for Gloucestershire, and the MNVP Glos co-production project. Page 3 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** Alongside maintaining existing partnerships, the team has built new relationships with; the Friendship Café and City Farm in Gloucester, the Gloucester Gateway Trust, and Family Action - the Children and Family Centre providers, Fair Shares Gloucester, the Ark playgroup in Stroud, GDASS and Allsorts. The three Home-Starts covering Gloucestershire work together as a consortium. During the year, senior leaders and trustees from each consortium member met quarterly to manage consortium delivery, share updates, and best practice, align consistency of offer, coordinate shared functions, and oversee the strategic direction of the consortium. During the year we agreed to refresh our Memorandum of Understanding and to jointly commission a specialist fundraiser to secure the future of Dad Matters. ## Quality Assurance As part of the federated network of Home-Starts across the UK, we are required to undertake Quality Assurance. In 2024/25 we achieved the following standards: - Protecting Families - safeguarding and all relevant policies. - Governance and Leadership - Trustee appointment, training and responsibilities, governing documentation, operational and financial strategy. - Supporting Families - training and support for staff and volunteers to enable them to support families, managing expectations, safe and accurate record keeping and plans to deal with high demand. ## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** ## **Reserves policy** The trustees have reviewed the charity's reserves policy and aim to maintain reserves to ensure financial sustainability. At year-end, unrestricted reserves stood at £100,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover the cost of redundancies, pension liability and 2 months running expenses should the organisation have to close. The charity's total income for the year was £433,985, with total expenditure of £411,789. The financial position at year-end was a surplus of £22,796, leaving total funds carried forward at £116,011. Principal Funding Sources: - Grants & Donations: £423,020 - Fundraising and Donations: £5,316 - Other Income (e.g., trading, contracts): £5,649 ## **FUTURE PLANS** The charity plans to: - Secure longer-term funding for future operation of the Home-Start Stroud and Gloucester. - Increase service where we are currently under-represented. - Develop mutually beneficial corporate partnerships. - Secure county wide funding for Dad Matters. These will be achieved through continued fundraising, partnerships, and operational improvements. ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** ## **Governing document** The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006. ## **Risk management** The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. The trustees regularly assess risks affecting the charity, particularly in the areas of finance, governance, safeguarding, and compliance. Key risks identified and mitigation strategies include: - Key leadership gaps and lack of appropriate skills within the Trustee membership - targeted recruitment of new trustees to fill identified skills gaps, widely advertising for Chair. - Risk of not raising sufficient funds to cover projected expenditure - fundraising strategy, monitoring of expenditure by treasurer and Trustees, external fundraising support. - Risk of failing to meet safeguarding obligations - annual training for staff and volunteers, higher level training for staff and trustee safeguarding leads, ensuring all policies and procedures are current, maintaining accurate records. Page 4 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Company number** 05282509 (England and Wales) **Registered Charity number** 1107019 ## **Registered office** Suites F&G, The Wheelhouse Bonds Mill Estate Stonehouse Gloucestershire GL10 3RF **Trustees** Ms H Cunild Ex-Social Worker Ms E Ewart-James Social Worker (resigned 4.7.24) Ms B A Harney Retired A R D Lane Director C R Pascoe Project Manager Ms P H Walker Teacher D Corfield Nhs Worker (appointed 4.7.24) Ms L Cowling Consultant (appointed 4.7.24) Ms L Hibbert Bank Worker (appointed 4.7.24) Ms L Price Bank Worker (appointed 4.7.24) (resigned 30.9.24) ## **Independent Examiner** Allen Accountants Ltd Allen Accountants Ltd Suite 5, First Floor The Counting House Bonds Mill Estate Stonehouse Gloucestershire GL10 3RF Approved by order of the board of trustees on ............................................. and signed on its behalf by: .............................................................................. Ms H Cunild - Trustee Page 5 ## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Home-Start Stroud And Gloucester ('the Company')** I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2025. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act'). Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** Since your charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a listed body. I can confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, which is one of the listed bodies. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by Section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or 3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or 4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)). I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Allen Accountants Ltd Allen Accountants Ltd Suite 5, First Floor The Counting House Bonds Mill Estate Stonehouse Gloucestershire GL10 3RF Date: ............................................. Page 6 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** |2025
Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**INCOMING RESOURCES FROM**
Donations and restricted funds
423,020
Fundraising activities
2
5,316
Investment income
3
5,539
Other income
-
**Total**
433,875
**EXPENDITURE ON**
Other
412,115
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
21,760
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
93,815
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
115,575|2024
Total
funds
£
368,118
15,648
4,990
300
389,056
400,273
(11,217)
105,032
93,815| |---|---| The notes form part of these financial statements Page 7 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **BALANCE SHEET 31 MARCH 2025** |2025
Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible assets
7
3,939
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
8
21,501
Cash at bank and in hand
101,254
122,755
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
9
(8,188)
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
114,567
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
118,506
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due after more than one year
10
(2,931)
**NET ASSETS**
115,575
**FUNDS**
11
Unrestricted funds
115,575
**TOTAL FUNDS**
115,575|2024
Total
funds
£
4,049
20,082
99,646
119,728
(27,031)
92,697
96,746
(2,931)
93,815
93,815
93,815| |---|---| The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006. The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company. These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime. The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on ............................................. and were signed on its behalf by: ............................................. H Cunild - Trustee The notes form part of these financial statements Page 8 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES** ## **Basis of preparing the financial statements** The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. ## **Income** All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably. ## **Expenditure** Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. ## **Tangible fixed assets** Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life. ## **Taxation** The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities. ## **Fund accounting** Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes. Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements. ## **Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits** The charitable company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the charitable company's pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate. ## **2. FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES** |Fundraising events
**3.**
**INVESTMENT INCOME**
Interest receivable - trading|2025
£
5,316
2025
£
5,539|2024
£
15,648| |---|---|---| |||2024
£
4,990| continued... Page 9 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **4. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)** Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting): ||2025|2024| |---|---|---| ||£|£| |Accountancy|634|613| |Depreciation - owned assets|1,313|1,349| ## **5. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS** There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024. ## **Trustees' expenses** There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024. ## **6. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES** ||Unrestricted| |---|---| ||fund| ||£| |**INCOMING RESOURCES FROM**|| |Donations and restricted funds|368,118| |Fundraising activities|15,648| |Investment income|4,990| |Other income|300| |**Total**|389,056| |**EXPENDITURE ON**|| |Other|400,273| |**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**|(11,217)| |**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**|| |Total funds brought forward|105,032| |**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|93,815| continued... Page 10 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **7. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS** |**COST**
At 1 April 2024
Additions
At 31 March 2025
**DEPRECIATION**
At 1 April 2024
Charge for year
At 31 March 2025
**NET BOOK VALUE**
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2024
**8.**
**DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Trade debtors
Other debtors
Prepayments
**9.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
Trade creditors
Social security and other taxes
Other creditors
Funds restricted for next year
Accrued expenses
**10.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR**
Other creditors|Fixtures
and
fittings
£
23,311
1,203
24,514
19,262
1,313
20,575
3,939
4,049
2025
2024
£
£
-
4,000
8,878
2,462
12,623
13,620
21,501
20,082
2025
2024
£
£
-
(1)
4,516
8,041
3,072
1,891
-
16,500
600
600
8,188
27,031
2025
2024
£
£
2,931
2,931| |---|---| ||| ||| ||| continued... Page 11 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **11. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS** |**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**Comparatives for movement in funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined position is as
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**|Net
movement
At
At 1/4/24
in funds
31/3/25
£
£
£
93,815
21,760
115,575
93,815
21,760
115,575
Incoming
Resources
Movement
resources
expended
in funds
£
£
£
433,875
(412,115)
21,760
433,875
(412,115)
21,760
Net
movement
At
At 1/4/23
in funds
31/3/24
£
£
£
105,032
(11,217)
93,815
105,032
(11,217)
93,815

Incoming
Resources
Movement
resources
expended
in funds
£
£
£
389,056
(400,273)
(11,217)
389,056
(400,273)
(11,217)
follows:
Net
movement
At
At 1/4/23
in funds
31/3/25
£
£
£
105,032
10,543
115,575
105,032
10,543
115,575| |---|---| continued... Page 12 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** ## **11. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued** A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows: |**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**|Incoming
resources
£
822,931
822,931|Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(812,388)
10,543
(812,388)
10,543|Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(812,388)
10,543
(812,388)
10,543| |---|---|---|---| ||||10,543| ## **12. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES** There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2025. Page 13 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** |**INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Donations and restricted funds**
Restricted Funds
Donations and subscriptions
Gift aid
Grants
**Fundraising activities**
Fundraising events
**Investment income**
Interest receivable - trading
**Other income**
Other Income
**Total incoming resources**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Support costs**
**Administrative costs**
Wages
Recruitment expenses
Premises expenses
Repairs and renewals
Insurance
Telephone
Postage
Stationery and printing
Office sundries
Coordinator expenses
Volunteers expenses
Group workers expenses
Fundraising expenses
Training staff and management
Training volunteers
Family fund expenses
Premises hire
Group resources
Staff welfare
Depreciation of tangible and heritage assets
**Finance**
Credit card charges
**Other 3**
Sundries
**Governance costs**
Accountancy
Carried forward|2025
£
399,056
22,787
1,177
-
423,020
5,316
5,539
-
433,875
330,967
2,379
18,819
8,344
2,685
3,314
222
1,629
304
4,864
7,501
3,314
2,322
521
672
297
11,015
362
68
1,313
400,912
382
225
634
634|2024
£
345,662
15,766
1,690
5,000
368,118
15,648
4,990
300
389,056
318,655
943
22,086
3,692
2,133
2,893
234
2,483
347
7,226
7,541
4,205
1,793
2,115
180
135
10,979
519
962
1,349
390,470
249
-
613
613| |---|---|---| This page does not form part of the statutory financial statements Page 14 **HOME-START STROUD AND GLOUCESTER** ## **DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** |**Governance costs**
Brought forward
Consultancy
Total resources expended
**Net income/(expenditure)**|2025
£
634
9,962
10,596
412,115
21,760|2024
£
613
8,941
9,554
400,273
(11,217)| |---|---|---| This page does not form part of the statutory financial statements Page 15