## **Home-Start Horizons**
## **Charity No. 1108455**
**Company No. 05352252**
**Trustees' Report and Unaudited Accounts**
**31 March 2025**
**Home-Start Horizons Contents**
||Pages|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Annual Report|1|
|Independent Examiner's Report|6|
|Statement of Financial Activities|7|
|Summary Income and Expenditure Account|8|
|Balance Sheet|9|
|Statement of Cash flows|11|
|Notes to the Accounts|12 to 21|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|22 to 23|
Page 1
**Home-Start Horizons Trustees Annual Report**
The trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Company No. 05352252**
## **Charity No. 1108455**
## **Principal Office**
Business Box 3 Oswin Road Leicester LE3 1HR
## **Registered Office**
Business Box 3 Oswin Road Leicester LE3 1HR
## **Directors and Trustees**
The Directors of the charitable company are its Trustees for the purposes of charity law. The following Directors and Trustees served during the year:
P. Akroyd
N. Baines-Knox
J. Gomes
L. Pettitt
S. Tizzard
H. Truemper
## **Company Secretary**
E. Macmanard
## **Key Management Personnel**
Chief Executive Officer Operations Manager
Stuart Sullivan Elaine Macmanard
## **Accountants**
I Hate Numbers Limited Forester Building 29-35 St Nicholas Place Leicester LE1 4LD
## **Bankers**
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**Home-Start Horizons Trustees Annual Report**
National Westminster Bank Plc 1 Granby Street Leicester LE1 6EJ
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
Home-Start Horizons aims to increase the confidence and independence of families by:
- Offering support, friendship and practical assistance
- Visiting families in their own homes
- Reassuring parents bringing up children and encouraging them to enjoy family life
- Developing a relationship with the family in which time can be shared and understanding can be developed
- Encouraging families to widen their network of relationships and to use effectively the support and services available in the community
The charity has adopted policies on equality and diversity, safeguarding, health and safety, complaints and confidentiality and a range of defined practices designed to guide the organisation towards best practice.
PUBLIC BENEFIT THAT IS PROVIDED BY THE CHARITY
Home-Start Horizons provides a unique service; recruiting and training volunteers to offer families informal, friendly and confidential support. Home-Start Horizons works with parents on a one to one basis in their own home, building supportive relationships and responding directly to the family’s individual needs. In this way, Home-Start Horizons has a proven, lasting and positive impact on the development of children and the health and welfare of families.
Home-Start Horizons works to establish successful links with families who are particularly ‘hard to engage’, isolated, disadvantaged or are experiencing multiple and complex difficulties as well as with families who need support to prevent stressful situations becoming crisis points. All Home-Start Horizons schemes are affiliated to the national body Home-Start UK by a national agreement aimed to ensure a consistent and quality service. Home-Start UK provides information, advice, training and guidance in all aspects of managing schemes. Home-Start Horizons has a comprehensive Quality Assurance system, based on 8 quality areas.
Home-Start Horizons aims to continue to work towards ensuring that Home-Start Horizons services are sustained.
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE VOLUNTEERS
The role of the Chief Executive, Operations Manager, coordinators and administration team is to work alongside the trustees to manage and administer the work of the organisation according to agreed policies and procedures. The role of the co-ordinators is to recruit, train, support and supervise the team of home visiting volunteers, receive referrals, assess needs, link volunteers to families and monitor and evaluate work with families, develop and facilitate support through family groups, and liaise with referrers and other agencies working with children and their families.
The whole staff team works together to provide a quality service to both families and volunteers, positively promote Home-Start Horizons throughout Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to contribute to local strategies for the support of children and their families and work in partnership with all organisations with the interest of children and their families.
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
Page 3
**Home-Start Horizons Trustees Annual Report**
Home-Start Horizons continues to be a crucial element in the early help environment, filling gaps that statutory services cannot cover, going strong after 52+ years, supporting almost 300 families and over 400 children. There continues to be significant need for early years support – particularly in the first 1,001 days from the start of pregnancy. This year we have developed further our parental mental health programmes (MIMs and Dad’s Mental Health projects) in response to need. Our early help approach has attracted funding from Health and Family Hubs, testament to the credibility and impact of our work.
The financial year ended 31st March 2025 saw a continuation of supporting families and children who are experiencing issues around mental health (69% of families), the cost of living crisis and children born during Covid lockdowns.
Core work continues through delivery of 8 family groups across Leicester City, Leicestershire & Rutland. Work was expanded focussing on parental mental health, with new commissioned funding secured from the Department of Education via Family Hubs in Leicester, to support dad’s mental health and our Mums in Mind post-natal depression support programme. This commissioning that accompanies the extension of commissioned funding via Health and Getting help in Neighbourhoods, is testament to the incredible impact on families that has been evidenced to commissioners. Home-Visiting support for over 100 families allowed us to support families directly, with parental modelling, support via the various parenting and training programmes we have invested in our staff including conflict resolution and Triple P, imparting support and knowledge to improve children’s experiences where other agencies often are unable to access.
The success of the Mums in Mind programme continues to grow, with significant impacts with almost every Mum attending improving significantly from severe to mild or moderate depression symptoms (Edinburgh Post-Natal Depression clinical scores, pre and post).
Overall, impact for families included 85% reported being more involved in children’s learning and development, 75% were better able to cope with the day to day running of a home and 79% were better able to cope with their mental health after Home-Start support. The impact of this on children in those crucial formative years of brain and social development, securing positive attachment and bonding, not only benefits families in the short-term, but creates lifelong impact that ripples through life and society over decades. Secure, socialised and positively parented children perform better in school, access health and social care less and have better life and health outcomes.
Over 100 volunteers supported us over the year, leveraging in nearly £300k in added value to support services as well as developing communities and breaking down barriers supporting community integration.
All of this success in our 53rd year led to press coverage including staff and families meeting with Liz Kendall MP and Cabinet Minister to discuss our crucial role in supporting families, our fantastic Trustee Happy Truemper appearing on Talk TV and attending the premier of Home-Start UK’s national advertising campaign in which she played a crucial part.
Staff, volunteers and trustees have all contributed to the continued success of the charity in terms of growth of new services, covering a large geographical area and financially robust working to tight budget to achieve a breakeven. Income diversity has expanded with support from more grant funders, commissioned services through Health and Local Authority, ensuring that Home-Start Horizons is more secure heading into it’s 53rd year where challenges around family support and charity funding, with continued austerity, makes the environment extremely tough.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
Page 4
**Home-Start Horizons Trustees Annual Report**
Income for the year was £538,100 (£399,930 during 23-24) made up of grants, donations, and investment income, total expenditure was £413,707 (23-24: £479,843) from which £383,393 (23-24: £447,120) spent on charitable activities, and £30,314 (23-24:£32,723) on other expenditure. There was a surplus of £124,393 for the year to 31-Mar-25 before the net deficit of £2,958 on the the pension scheme, giving a net surplus movement in funds of £121,435 . Funds bought forward from April 2024 were £190,162, total funds at year end to take forward were £311,597.
We have caught up following subsequent year losses due to expansion of services 2 and 3 years ago, so the surplus puts us back to where we were, with a reserves level commensurate with Charity Commission guidance and in line with policy. The aim of the Trustees is to hold reserves of 4 months budgeted expenditure plus the pension fund liability on ceasing to trade. At 31st March 2025 our expenditure for 2024-25 was £413,707 (£479,843 during 23-24) and the pension fund liability was £5,842 (£2,884 at Mar 24) and therefore the reserves of £311,597 is adequate.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
The structure of the charity ensures strategic and operational management are separated, in order to meet the challenge of survival of Home-Start Horizons, retaining services to families and sustaining the charity.
The CEO has overall responsibility for the delivery of the business plan, development of the strategy and securing of diverse funding. The CEO reports directly to the Board of Trustees. The Operations Manager reports to the CEO as well as the Board of Trustees and has responsibility for staff and operational management, safeguarding, policies and procedures.
The charity is controlled by its governing documents, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
The Trustees are appointed in accordance with the company’s articles. Those who served during the period are detailed on page 1. The committee comprises of trustees and advisory members from the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors. Trustees have overall responsibility for determining and implementing policies, financial control and accountability, employment and deployment of staff, premises, insurance, the Annual Report, and monitoring and evaluation of the work of the organisation.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime as set out in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102).
Signed on behalf of the board
P. Akroyd Trustee
10 October 2025
Page 5
**Home-Start Horizons Independent Examiners Report**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Home-Start Horizons**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Home-Start Horizons 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 financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act.
Having satisfied myself that the financial statements of the Charity 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 financial statements 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**
As the charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of FCCA, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I can confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the 2006 Act ; or
- the financial statements do not accord with those records; or
- the financial statements do not comply with the accounting requirements under section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the financial statements give a 'true and fair' view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
- the financial statements 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 financial
statements to be reached.
as Mahmood Reza FCCA
I Hate Numbers Limited Forester Building 29-35 St Nicholas Place Leicester
LE1 4LD 10 October 2025
Page 6
**Home-Start Horizons Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments**
**from:**
Donations and legacies
4
Investments
5
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
6
Other
7
**Total**
Net gains on investments
**Net income/(expenditure)**
8
Transfers between funds
**Net income/(expenditure)**
**before other gains/(losses)**
**Other gains and losses**
Actuarial Losses on defined
benefit pension schemes
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
114,503
8,918|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
414,679
-|**Total funds**
**2025**
**£**
529,182
8,918|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
398,191
1,739|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||123,421
60,081
13,727|414,679
323,312
16,587|538,100
383,393
30,314|399,930
447,120
32,723|
||73,808
-|339,899
-|413,707
-|479,843
-|
||49,613
-|74,780
-|124,393
-|(79,913)
-|
||49,613
(2,958)|74,780
-|124,393
(2,958)|(79,913)
(4,895)|
||46,655
182,487|74,780
7,675|121,435
190,162|(84,808)
274,970|
||229,142|82,455|311,597|190,162|
Page 7
**Home-Start Horizons Summary Income and Expenditure Account**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|Income
Interest and investment income
**Gross income for the year**
Expenditure
Interest payable
Depreciation and charges for
impairment of fixed assets
**Total expenditure for the year**
Net income/(expenditure) before tax
for the year
**Net income /(expenditure )for the year**|**2025**
**£**
529,182
8,918
538,100
412,309
76
1,322
413,707
124,393
124,393|**2024**
**£**
398,191
1,739|
|---|---|---|
|||399,930|
|||477,718
237
1,888|
|||479,843|
|||(79,913)|
|||(79,913)|
Page 8
**Home-Start Horizons Balance Sheet**
## **at 31 March 2025**
|**at 31 March 2025**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Company No.**
**05352252**|**Notes**|**2025**||**2024**|
|||**£**||**£**|
|**Fixed assets**|||||
|Intangible assets|10|572||854|
|Tangible assets|11|2,489||3,458|
|||3,061||4,312|
|**Current assets**|||||
|Debtors|12|887||1,317|
|Investments|13|37,077||120,099|
|Cash at bank and in hand||295,977||125,971|
|||333,941||247,387|
|**Creditors:**Amount falling due within one year|14|(19,563)||(58,653)|
|**Net current assets**||314,378||188,734|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**||317,439||193,046|
|**Net assets excluding pension asset or liability**||317,439||193,046|
|**Defined benefit pension scheme liability**||(5,842)||(2,884)|
|**Total net assets**||311,597||190,162|
|**The funds of the charity**|||||
|**Restricted funds**|15||||
|Restricted income funds||82,455||7,675|
|||82,455||7,675|
|**Unrestricted funds**|15||||
|General funds||229,142||182,487|
|||229,142||182,487|
|**Reserves**|15||||
|**Total funds**||311,597||190,162|
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
For the year ended 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 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.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
Approved by the board on 10 October 2025
And signed on its behalf by:
P. Akroyd
Page 9
**Home-Start Horizons Balance Sheet**
Trustee 10 October 2025
Page 10
**Home-Start Horizons Statement of Cash flows for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Cash flows from operating activities**
**Net income/(expenditure) per Statement of Financial Activities**
**Adjustments for:**
Depreciation of property, plant and equipment
Amortisation of intangible assets
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Other gains/losses
Decrease/(Increase) in trade and other receivables
(Decrease)/Increase in trade and other payables
**Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities**
**Cash flows from investing activities**
Payments for property, plant and equipment
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
**Net cash from investing activities**
**Net cash from financing activities**
**Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year**
**Components of cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and bank balances|**2025**
**£**
121,435
1,040
282
(8,918)
-
430
(36,132)
78,137
(71)
8,918
8,847
-
86,984
246,070
333,054
333,054
333,054|**2024**
**£**
(84,808)
1,467
421
(1,739)
-
(291)
26,948|
|---|---|---|
|||(58,002)
(884)
1,739|
|||855|
||||
|||-|
||||
|||(57,147)|
|||303,217|
|||246,070|
||||
|||246,070|
||||
|||246,070|
Page 11
**Home-Start Horizons Notes to the Accounts**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
- 1 **Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 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 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
## **Change in basis of accounting or to previous**
## **accounts**
There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and method of accounting) since last year and no changes have been made to accounts for previous years.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted These are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general funds objects of the charity. Designated funds These are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes. Revaluation These are unrestricted funds which include a revaluation reserve representing the funds restatement of investment assets at their market values. Restricted These are available for use subject to restrictions imposed by the donor or through funds terms of an appeal.
Page 12
**Home-Start Horizons Notes to the Accounts**
**Income** Recognition of Income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the charity income becomes entitled to, and virtually certain to receive, the income and the amount of the income can be measured with sufficient reliability. Income with Where income has related expenditure the income and related expenditure is reported related gross in the SoFA. expenditure Donations and Voluntary income received by way of grants, donations and gifts is included in the the legacies SoFA when receivable and only when the Charity has unconditional entitlement to the income. Tax reclaims on Income from tax reclaims is included in the SoFA at the same time as the gift/donation to donations and which it relates. gifts Donated These are only included in income (with an equivalent amount in expenditure) where the services and benefit to the Charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material. facilities Volunteer help The value of any volunteer help received is not included in the accounts. Investment This is included in the accounts when receivable. income Gains/(losses) This includes any gain or loss resulting from revaluing investments to market value at the on revaluation end of the year. of fixed assets Gains/(losses) This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments. on investment assets **Expenditure** Recognition of Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure includes any VAT which expenditure cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates. Expenditure on These comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income, fundraising raising funds trading costs and investment management costs. Expenditure on These comprise the costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of its activities and charitable services in the furtherance of its objects, including the making of grants and governance activities costs. Grants payable All grant expenditure is accounted for on an actual paid basis plus an accrual for grants that have been approved by the trustees at the end of the year but not yet paid. Governance These include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory costs requirements of the Charity, including any audit/independent examination fees, costs linked to the strategic management of the Charity, together with a share of other administration costs. Other These are support costs not allocated to a particular activity. expenditure
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**Home-Start Horizons Notes to the Accounts**
## **Tax**
## **ati**
## **on**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Tangible fixed assets and depreciation**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life:
33% Fixtures, fittings & equipment reducing balance
## **Freehold investment property**
Investment properties are measured initially at cost and subsequently at fair value at each balance sheet date and are not depreciated. All gains or losses are taken to the Statement of Financial Activities as they arise.
## **Intangible fixed assets and amortisation**
Intangible fixed assets (including purchased goodwill, patents and trademarks) are carried at cost less accumulated amortisation and impairment losses.
33% Software Reducing balance
## **Trade and other debtors**
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
## **Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash at bank and on hand, demand deposits with banks and other short-term highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less and bank overdrafts. In the statement of financial position, bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings or current liabilities. In the Statement of Cash Flows, cash and cash equivalents are shown net of bank overdrafts that are repayable on demand and form an integral part of the company's cash management.
## **Trade and other creditors**
Short term creditors are measured at the transaction price. Other creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.
## **Pension costs**
The charity operates a defined contribution plan for its employees. A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which the company pays fixed contributions into a separate entity. Once the contributions have been paid the company has no further payments obligations. The contributions are recognised as expenses when they fall due. Amounts not paid are shown in accruals in the balance sheet. The assets of the plan are held separately from the company in independently administered funds.
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**Home-Start Horizons Notes to the Accounts**
## 2 **Company status**
The company is a private company limited by guarantee and consequently does not have share capital.
## 3 **Statement of Financial Activities - prior year**
|**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Investments
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
Other
**Total**
**Net income**
Transfers between funds
**Net income before other**
**gains/(losses)**
**Other gains and losses:**
Actuarial Gains on defined benefit
pension schemes
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**
4
**Income from donations and**
**legacies**
Donations and gifts from
individuals
Revenue grants and donations
from non-public bodies
Revenue from legacy|**Unrestric**
**ted**
**£**
676
103,827
10,000
114,503|**Unrestrict**
**ed funds**
**2024**
**£**
42,708
1,739
44,447
110,207
15,992
126,199|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
355,483
-
355,483
336,913
16,731
353,644
1,839
5,167
7,006
-
7,006
669
7,675
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
676
518,506
10,000
529,182|**Total**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
398,191
1,739|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||399,930
447,120
32,723|
|||||479,843|
|||(81,752)
(5,167)
(86,919)
(4,895)
(91,814)
274,301
182,487
**Restricted**
**£**
-
414,679
-
414,679||(79,913)
-|
|||||(79,913)
(4,895)|
|||||(84,808)
274,970|
|||||190,162|
|||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
750
397,441
-|
|||||398,191|
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**Home-Start Horizons Notes to the Accounts**
- 5 **Income from investments**
|Bank interest receivable
6
**Expenditure on charitable**
**activities**
_Expenditure on charitable_
_activities_
Defined benefit pension costs
Family trips, activities and group
expenses
Gross wages and salaries
Premises costs
_Governance costs_
HR Support package
7
**Other expenditure**
Other interest payable
Employee costs
Amortisation, depreciation,
impairment, profit/loss on
disposal of fixed assets
General administrative costs
Legal and professional costs
8
**Net income/(expenditure) before**
**transfers**
This is stated after charging:
Depreciation of owned fixed assets
Amortisation of intangible fixed
assets|**Unrestric**
**ted**
**£**
8,388
59
51,489
0
0
59,936
**Unrestric**
**ted**
**£**
76
0
1,322
1,339
10,990
13,727|**Unrestrict**
**ed**
**£**
8,918
8,918
**Restricted**
**£**
20,576
13,743
264,575
11,259
1,557
311,710
**Restricted**
**£**
-
5,058
-
10,065
1,464
16,587
**2025**
**£**
1,040
282|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
8,918
8,918
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
28,964
13,802
316,064
11,259
1,557
371,646
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
76
5,058
1,322
11,404
12,454
30,314|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
1,739|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||1,739|
|||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
23,834
14,279
372,850
23,564
1,640|
|||||436,167|
|||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
237
6,501
1,888
14,214
9,883|
|||||32,723|
|||||**2024**
**£**
1,467
421|
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**Home-Start Horizons Notes to the Accounts**
## 9 **Staff costs**
No employee received emoluments in excess of £60,000.
The average monthly number of full time equivalent employees during the year was as follows:
|The average number of part time
staff employed in the year
The average number of full time
staff employed in the year|**2025**
**Number**
8
3
11|**2024**
**Number**
9
5|
|---|---|---|
|||14|
The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme, the costs of which are shown above. Current contributions on a salary are 8% for the employer and 6% for staff.
Any liabilities and assets associated with the scheme are shown under debtors and creditors.
## 10 **Intangible fixed assets**
|**Cost**
At 1 April 2024
At 31 March 2025
**Amortisation and impairment**
At 1 April 2024
Amortisation charge for the year
At 31 March 2025
**Net book values**
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2024
Intangible assets refers to software costs|**Other**
**£**
4,240
4,240
3,386
282
3,668
572
854|**Total**
**£**
4,240|
|---|---|---|
|||4,240|
|||3,386
282|
|||3,668|
|||572|
|||854|
||||
||||
||||
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**Home-Start Horizons Notes to the Accounts**
## 11 **Tangible fixed assets**
|**Cost or revaluation**
At 1 April 2024
Additions
At 31 March 2025
**Depreciation and impairment**
At 1 April 2024
Depreciation charge for the year
At 31 March 2025
**Net book values**
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2024
12 **Debtors**
Prepayments and accrued income
13 **Current asset investments**
Unlisted investments
14 **Creditors:**
amounts falling due within one
year
Other taxes and social security
Other creditors
Accruals
Deferred income|**2025**
**£**
887
887
**2025**
**£**
37,077
37,077
**2025**
**£**
5,000
(285)
14,848
-
19,563|**Fixtures,**
**fittings &**
**equipmen**
**t**
**£**
27,667
71
27,738
24,209
1,040
25,249
2,489
3,458|**Total**
**£**
27,667
71|
|---|---|---|---|
||||27,738|
||||24,209
1,040|
||||25,249|
||||2,489|
||||3,458|
||||**2024**
**£**
1,317|
||||1,317|
||||**2024**
**£**
120,099|
||||120,099|
||||**2024**
**£**
-
-
12,165
46,488|
||||58,653|
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## 15 **Movement in funds**
|**Restricted funds:**
**Restricted income funds:**
Lottery Community
Armed Forces Covenant
Mabs Mardulyn Charitable
Foundation
Neighbourhood MH Prevention &
Resilience
NHS Mental Health & Wellbeing
LCC Family Hubs Parent
MH-MIMs.Dads
Leics & Rutland Comm
Foundation-MIMS
Other funds, £1,000 and below
Army Central Fund-MIMS 2024 via
HSUK
Garfield Weston Foundation
SHIRE Community Grant 4737-
2024
Comm Grant-Oadby & Wigston
Borough Council
MBC Community Fund
Pears Breathing Space Fund
Carlton Hayes Mental Health
Charity
Toy Trust
VINCI UK FOUNDATION
Blaby District - IT
_Total_
**Unrestricted funds:**
**General funds**
**Total funds**|**At 1**
**April**
**2024**
1,868
247
3,881
464
-
-
-
1,215
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7,675
182,487
190,162|**Incoming**
**resources**
**(inc other**
**gains/losse**
**s)**
**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
**£**
150,167
(152,035)
31,200
(31,447)
35,331
(17,682)
12,782
(13,246)
20,309
(20,308)
76,784
(44,351)
7,161
(7,161)
400
(1,615)
4,500
(4,500)
10,000
(10,000)
3,762
(3,762)
511
(511)
7,172
(1,584)
19,000
(16,237)
25,000
(12,500)
2,000
(107)
5,000
(2,825)
3,599
(26)|**At 31**
**March**
**2025**
**£**
0
0
21,530
0
0
32,433
0
0
-
-
-
0
5,588
2,763
12,500
1,893
2,175
3,574|
|---|---|---|---|
|||414,679
(339,899)
-|82,455|
|||120,463
(73,808)
535,142
(413,707)|229,142|
||||311,597|
Purposes and restrictions in relation to the funds: Restricted funds: Lottery Community
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Armed Forces Covenant Mabs Mardulyn Charitable Foundation Neighbourhood MH Prevention & Resilience NHS Mental Health & Wellbeing LCC Family Hubs Parent MH-MIMs.Dads Leics & Rutland Comm Foundation-MIMS Other funds, £1,000 and below Army Central Fund-MIMS 2024 via HSUK Garfield Weston Foundation SHIRE Community Grant 47372024 Comm Grant-Oadby & Wigston Borough Council MBC Community Fund Pears Breathing Space Fund Carlton Hayes Mental Health Charity Toy Trust VINCI UK FOUNDATION Blaby District - IT **Analysis of net assets between** 16 **funds**
|16
**funds**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Fixed assets
Net current assets
17 **Reconciliation of net debt**
Cash and cash equivalents
Net debt|**At 1 April**
**2024**
**£**|**Unrestrict**
**ed funds**
**£**
3,061
314,378
317,439
**Cash flows**
**£**|**Total**
**£**
3,061
314,378|
||||317,439|
||||**At 31**
**March**
**2025**
**£**|
||125,971|170,006|295,977|
||125,971
125,971|170,006
170,006|295,977|
||||295,977|
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## 18 **Related party disclosures**
## _**Controlling party**_
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital; thus no single party controls the company.
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**Home-Start Horizons Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Donations and gifts from
individuals
Revenue grants and donations
from non-public bodies
Revenue from legacy
Investments
Bank interest receivable
**Total income and endowments**
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
Defined benefit pension costs
Family trips, activities and group
expenses
Gross wages and salaries
Premises costs
Motor and travel costs
Governance costs
HR Support package
**Total of expenditure on charitable**
**activities**
Other expenditure
Other interest payable
Employee costs
Staff recruitment
Staff training
Staff welfare
General administrative costs,
including depreciation and
amortisation
Amortisation|**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**2025**
**£**
676
103,827
10,000
114,503
8,918
8,918
123,421
8,388
59
51,489
0
145
60,081
0
0
60,081
76
76
-
-
0
0
282|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
-
414,679
-
414,679
-
-
414,679
20,576
13,743
264,575
11,259
11,602
321,755
1,557
1,557
323,312
-
-
-
980
4,078
5,058
-|**Total funds**
**2025**
**£**
676
518,506
10,000
529,182
8,918
8,918
538,100
28,964
13,802
316,064
11,259
11,747
381,836
1,557
1,557
383,393
76
76
-
980
4,078
5,058
282|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
750
397,441
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||398,191|
|||||1,739|
|||||1,739|
|||||399,930
23,834
14,279
372,850
23,564
10,953|
|||||445,480|
|||||1,640|
|||||1,640|
|||||447,120
237|
|||||237|
|||||1,146
475
4,880|
|||||6,501|
|||||421|
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## **Home-Start Horizons**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**
|Depreciation of Fixtures, fittings
& equipment
Bank charges
General insurances
Information and publications
Postage and couriers
Software, IT support and related
costs
Stationery and printing
Subscriptions
Telephone, fax and broadband
Legal and professional costs
Audit/Independent examination
fees
Management charges
Other legal and professional
costs
**Total of expenditure of other costs**
**Total expenditure**
Net gains on investments
**Net income/(expenditure)**
**Net income/(expenditure) before**
**other gains/(losses)**
**Other recognised gains and losses**
Actuarial Losses on defined
benefit pension schemes
Other Gains
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|1,040
71
104
0
0
76
0
1,035
53
2,661
1,256
9,734
0
10,990
13,727
73,808
-
49,613
49,613
(2,958)
-
46,655
182,487
229,142|-
1,178
1,756
274
258
3,891
1,279
-
1,429
10,065
1,200
-
264
1,464
16,587
339,899
-
74,780
74,780
-
-
74,780
7,675
82,455|1,040
1,249
1,860
274
258
3,967
1,279
1,035
1,482
12,726
2,456
9,734
264
12,454
30,314
413,707
-
124,393
124,393
(2,958)
-
121,435
190,162
311,597|1,467
1,336
1,801
431
17
2,805
4,335
1,061
2,428|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||16,102|
|||||2,308
7,316
259|
|||||9,883|
||||||
|||||32,723|
|||||479,843
-|
|||||(79,913)|
|||||(79,913)
(4,895)
-|
|||||(84,808)|
|||||274,970|
|||||190,162|
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