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Home-Start Wessex

Home-Start (bournemouth & Poole), Home-Start South East Dorset

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1109046
Status
Registered
Registered
April 14, 2005
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
Within The Area Of Bournemouth, Poole And Its Environs.

Address

Address
HOME-START
1462 WIMBORNE ROAD
BOURNEMOUTH
BH10 7AS

Activities

Home-Start Wessex is a family support charity that provides vital care to families at a crucial time in their lives. The support is offered to families with at least one child under 5 through individually designed packages of practical and emotional help lasting for around 6 months. This is either provided with one-to-one support in their own homes or through group support and therapy.

Objects: The objects of the Charity are: a) to safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical of children and parents of children;b) to prevent cruelty to or maltreatment of children;c) to relieve sickness, poverty and need amongst children and parents of children;d) to promote the education of the public in better standards of child care across the Wessex conurbation which includes, Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, the Purbecks, Dorchester, Weymouth, Portland, Bridport and its environs.

Classification

How
Provides Services
What
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Other Charitable Purposes
Who
Children/young People, People With Disabilities, Other Defined Groups

Areas of operation

Local Authority
Bournemouth, Dorset, Poole

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
March 31, 2025 £494,501 £512,573
March 31, 2024 £418,651 £390,696
March 31, 2023 £269,880 £285,065
March 31, 2022 £224,460 £232,853
March 31, 2021 £264,516 £233,091

Trustees

Name Appointed
Belinda Hewett Nov. 13, 2025
Caroline Pope Nov. 13, 2025
John Stubbs June 9, 2021
Lesley Owen Nov. 13, 2025
Peter Evans Sept. 11, 2025
Rowena Nicola Felicity Wilkes Nov. 21, 2012
Samuel Critchell May 9, 2024