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Home-Start Portsmouth
- 9 trustees
- Income £961k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Simon John BenfieldChair · since 2024
- Alison Mary Gilbert CordwellTrustee · since 2025
- Andrew John OsbornTrustee · since 2023
- Bev VaughanTrustee · since 2020
- Hugh Jonathan CrutchfieldTrustee · since 2025
- Joanne Kate GoodshipTrustee · since 2023
- Linda Vivienne JenkinsTrustee · since 2021
- Susan Claire BlandTrustee · since 2024
- Tarnia SimmonsTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Portsmouth City
- Website
- www.hsportsmouth.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Home-Start Portsmouth
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£961k£1.1m
- 2024£1.1m£856k
- 2023£332k£332k
Earlier years
- 2022£290k£290k
- 2021£278k£249k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 72% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
A) TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS AND CARERS OF CHILDREN;B) TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;C) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS AND CARERS OF CHILDREN;D) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE WITHIN THE AREA OF PORTSMOUTH AND ITS ENVIRONS.
Grants received
19 grants · £1,008,504 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Henry Smith Foundation · £452,400 (4 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £282,945 (5 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £155,189 (5 grants)
- Pears Foundation · £80,000 (2 grants)
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £29,300
Most recent
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
9 trustees on the board
- Simon John Benfield Chair since 2024
- Alison Mary Gilbert Cordwell since 2025
- Andrew John Osborn since 2023
- Bev Vaughan since 2020
- Hugh Jonathan Crutchfield since 2025
- Joanne Kate Goodship since 2023
- Linda Vivienne Jenkins since 2021
- Susan Claire Bland since 2024
- Tarnia Simmons since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Simon John Benfield Chair since 2024
- Alison Mary Gilbert Cordwell since 2025
- Andrew John Osborn since 2023
- Bev Vaughan since 2020
- Hugh Jonathan Crutchfield since 2025
- Joanne Kate Goodship since 2023
- Susan Claire Bland since 2024
- Tarnia Simmons since 2023
Portfolio (1)
- Linda Vivienne Jenkins since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1124943
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 JULY 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 06636439 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02392734400 · office@hsportsmouth.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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