Registered Charity number: 1187281
**HOME-START BROMLEY TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2024**
## **Home-Start Bromley Trustees' Report and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 January 2024**
## **Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Charity Information|1|
|Trustees' Report|2—3|
|Independent Examiner's Report|4|
|Statement of Financial Activities|5|
|Balance Sheet|6|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|7—8|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|9—10|
**Home-Start Bromley Charity Information For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
|**Charity Number**|1187281|
|---|---|
|**Principal address**|Community House|
||South Street|
||Bromley|
||BR1 1RH|
|**Trustees**|John Downie|
||Collin Lyttle (resigned 15 May 2023)|
||Belinda Barnaby (appointed 8 July 2023)|
||Beverley Clarke|
||Seena Gbekor|
|**Independent Examiners**|Best Choice Chartered Accountants,|
||Office 30, Kingfisher House,|
||21-23 Elmfield Road, Bromley,|
||BR1 1LT|
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## **Home-Start Bromley Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 January 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' issued in March 2005.
Registered Charity number: 1182781
## **Trustees**
John Downie Belinda Barnaby Beverley Clarke Seena Gbekor
## **Objectives and Activities**
Home-Start Bromley is a registered charity providing support for parents and their children through a team of trained volunteers who provide practical and non-judgmental support for families. Home-Start Bromley offers support, friendship and practical help to families with children in the locality of Bromley. Home-Start believes that parents play a key role in giving their children a good start in life; however, we recognise that parenting is a challenging and demanding role. We are here to support parents in this key role and provide the support and friendship they need.
Objectives: To safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical, of children and parents of children; To prevent cruelty to or maltreatment of children; To relieve sickness, poverty and need amongst children and parents of children; To promote the education of the public in better standards of child care within the area of Bromley and their environs; To respond to local issues impacting families – particularly domestic abuse, loneliness and isolation; To engage with local fathers to promote family well-being and better outcomes for children.
## **Achievements and Performance**
We are seeing an increase in the number of referrals for support this year, and we have also seen an increase in the complexities of factors tha ~~t~~ are impacting family functioning. This has meant that we have supported more families that have social services intervention and are on a child protection or child in need plan. Key reasons for family referrals include parental mental health, domestic abuse, neglect, and child and/or parental disability. Home-Start Bromley supported 105 families across the borough in addition to 201 children. Our support continued to include a mix between volunteer-led and practitioner-led group support; 5 more complex families were supported on a one-to-one basis by practitioners. 31 families received home-visiting support this year, providing practical and emotional support to families in need. Our volunteers are well trained and have parenting experiences themselves in order to provide a peer-to-peer mentoring support that is nonjudgemental. Our volunteers, on average, provided more longer-term support for families, which ranged between for 6-12 months of support.
## **Parenting programmes**
As part of our strategic plan and response to the increase in demand for core home-visiting services, Home-Start Bromley continued to focus on families that have been impacted by domestic violence and supporting parental mental health and wellbeing. In doing so, we are able to focus on the issues that greatly impact and be responsive to local needs. In addressing familial abuse, we delivered the 12-week Freedom programme for mothers who had been affected by domestic abuse. In addition to this, thanks to the Beckenham Rotary Club, the Moving Beyond Abuse therapeutic 8-week support group was also delivered to parents who were impacted by family abuse. In line with objectives to support local fathers whose families were impacted by domestic violence, lower levels of harm, or were in highly conflictual family dynamics, Home-Stat Bromley delivered the fathers-to-fathers parenting support programme. This included delivery of the 17-week evidenced based parenting programme, as well as providing weekly parenting mentoring support for fathers. Enabling local fathers to make child-centred parenting decisions, working collaboratively with other organisations who were involved with these families to minimise risk and harm to children. Fathers to Fathers, which started as a pilot project, is increasing in its reach to support such families and to support real change that promotes family well-being.
...CONTINUED
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## **Home-Start Bromley Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
## **Recruitment and training of parent volunteers**
During this year, we experienced challenges in recruiting volunteers and had to say goodbye to some longstanding volunteers who had moved on for work or personal reasons. Home-Start Bromley continued to recruit and train parent volunteers, who were allocated to families that had been referred and provided 2-3 hours of support per week to vulnerable families. This included an increase in male mentors who had specialised training to support specifically fathers who perpetrate abuse or who have harmful behaviours and who were participating in our fathers-to-fathers parenting programme. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do, and the continued engagement of volunteers was paramount, as well as the importance of supporting and supervising the work of volunteers.
## **Moving Forward**
Home-Start Bromley plans to continue our work in supporting vulnerable local families and provide that level of support needed at times when they are experiencing challenges. We want to continue to provide a more longer-term and sustained approach to support to ensure change occurs where it is needed and that parents are supported in doing their vital work as parents. We are keen to see more and more families and children thriving locally and continue to be responsive to local needs. Our strategic plans centre around key issues that impact local families and work to support the local agenda of tackling isolation, loneliness, perinatal health and domestic abuse, working with survivors and perpetrators to address family safety and well-being. In doing so, we have this year continued to work collaboratively with local partners, forging referral pathways for our programmes and ensuring that we are able to provide services that are responsive to local needs and fit appropriately to the service provision landscape locally.
## **Declarations**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
## J Downie
J Downie (Nov 29, 2024 16:46 GMT)
John Downie
Trustee
29/11/2024
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## **Home-Start Bromley Independent Examiner's Report For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
I report on the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 31 January 2024 which are set out on pages 6 to 10.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
1. The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
2. Having satisfied myself that an audit is not required, it is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act;
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act; and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act, and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities, have not been met; or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed
Shahzad Fayyaz (Nov 29, 2024 16:52 GMT)
## **Shahzad Fayyaz, ACA**
29/11/2024
Best Choice Chartered Accountants Office 30, Kingfisher House 21-23 Elmfield Road Bromley BR1 1LT
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## **Home-Start Bromley Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
|**Notes**
**INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Income and endowments from**
Donations and legacies
**TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**Expenditure on**
Generating donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Other resources
Finance
**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**7**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|**31 January**
**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
20,017
**20,017**
123
6,151
**8,051**
11,966
3,904
**15,870**
-
1,777|**31 January**
**2024**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
52,363
**52,363**
14,497
33,826
15,347
**63,670**
(11,307)
(2,578)
**(13,885)**
-|**31 January**
**2024**
**Total Funds**
**£**
72,380
**72,380**
14,497
33,949
21,498
1,777
**71,721**
659
1,326
**1,985**|**31 January**
**2023**
**£**
66,381|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**66,381**
13,818
34,738
11,612
1,673|
|||||**61,841**
4,540
(3,214)|
|||||**1,326**|
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## **Home-Start Bromley Balance Sheet As a t 31 January 2024**
|**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible Assets
**5**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES NET**
**NETASSETS**
**FUNDS**
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**4**
**3**
**Notes**|**31 January**
**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
2,951
**2,951**
-
**(3,424)**
**(3,424)**
**-**
-
**(473)**
**(473)**||**31 January**
**2024**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**2,458**
**2,458**
**2,458**
**2,458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
2,458
-||**31 January**
**2024**
**Total Funds**
**£**
2,951
**(3,424)**
**(966)**
**1,985**
**1,985**
15,870
(13,885)
**1,985**
**2,458**
**2,951**
-
2,458||**31 January**
**2023**
**Total Funds**
**£**
4,543|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||**4,543**
225
329|
||||||||**(3,801)**
**(3,217)**
**1,326**
**584**|
||||||||**1,326**
3,904
(2,578)|
||||||||**1,326**|
The Financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 29 Nov 2024 and were signed on its behalf by:
## J Downie
J Downie (Nov 29, 2024 16:46 GMT)
Mr John Downie
Trustee
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## **Home-Start Bromley Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
## 1. **Accounting Policies**
## 1.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements of the charity, 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 Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## 1.2. **Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:
Computer Equipment
25% Straight Line
## 1.3. **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.
## 1.4. **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. There are currently no Restricted funds.
## 1.5. **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.
## 1.6. **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.
## 2. **Average no of Employees**
Average number of employees during the year was 1 (2023: 2).
## 3. **Tangible Assets**
|**Cost**
As at 1 February 2023
As at 31 January 2024
**Depreciation**
As at 1 February 2023
Provided during the period
As at 31 January 2024
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 January 2024
As at 1 February 2023|**Computer**
**Equipment**
**£**
6,367|
|---|---|
||6,367|
||1,824
1,592|
||3,416|
||2,951|
||4,543|
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## **Home-Start Bromley Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
## 4. **Debtors**
|.
**Debtors**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Due within one year**
Other debtors
.
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Other taxes and social security
Pension payable
Accruals and deferred income|**2024**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
2,425
314
685
3,424
-|**2023**
**£**
255|
|||**2023**
**£**
2,986
78
737|
|||3,801|
## 5. **Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
## 6. **Trustee’s Remuneration and Benefits**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31st January 2024.
7. **Movement in funds**
|Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
52,363
72,380
20,017|**31 January**
**2024**
**£**
(11,307)
659
**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
63,670
71,721
11,966
8,051|**31 January**
**2023**
**£**
2,615
1,925|
|---|---|---|---|
||||4,540|
||||**Movement**
**in funds**
**£**
(11,307)
11,966|
||||659|
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
## 8. **Related Party Disclosures**
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31st January 2024.
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## **Home-Start Bromley Detailed Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
|**INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Income and endowments from**
Donations and legacies
Bromley Innovation Fund
Building Strong Communities Fund
National Lottery
London Community Fund
Bromley And Lewisham Covid Fund
Beacon Lodge Fund
BTSE Fund
NHS/Mayor for London Fund
London Borough of Newham
GLA Fund
BBC Children in Need Fund
Rotary Club
Home-Start UK
Donations
Waitrose and Partners
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**Cost of generating donations and legacies**
Staff Costs
**Charitable activities**
Family Resources
Staff and Volunteer Training
Staff Costs
**Other resources expended**
Travel & Subsistance
Printing, postage and stationery
Telecommunications and data costs
Accountancy fees
Professional fees
Computer and IT consumables
Administrative expenses
Insurance|**31 January**
**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
950
-
15,000
2,000
-
567
1,500
-
-
-|**31 January**
**2024**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
10,000
8,543
11,925
-
995
-
-
10,900
-
-
-
-
10,000
-
-|**31 January**
**2024**
**Total Funds**
**£**
-
-
10,000
10,000
8,543
11,925
950
995
15,000
-
-
2,000
10,900
567
1,500|**31 January**
**2023**
**Total Funds**
**£**
17,086
8,955
9,980
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,005
589
1,000
4,960
19,806|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**20,017**
-|**52,363**
14,497|**72,380**
14,497|**66,381**
13,818|
||123
-
-
**-**|**14,497**
-
33,826
-|**14,497**
123
33,826
-|**13,818**
94
2,399
32,245|
||**123**
120
-
1,313
3,093
-
711
635
349|-
-
-
13,215
**33,826**
-
731
1,333
68|**33,949**
1,453
-
711
1,313
731
13,850
417
3,093|**34,738**
-
758
214
1,322
6,138
-
2,400
780|
||**6,151**|**15,347**|**21,498**|**11,612**|
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## **Home-Start Bromley Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (continued) For The Year Ended 31 January 2024**
|**Finance costs**
Other interest payable
Depreciation: Computer Equipment
**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**NET INCOME LESS NET EXPENDITURE**|185
1,592|-
-|-
185
1,592|81
1,592|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**1,777**
**8,051**|**63,670**
**-**|**71,721**
**1,777**|**1,673**
**61,841**|
||**11,966**|**(11,307)**|**659**|**4,540**|
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