--- title: "Home-Start Portsmouth rating & legitimacy | CharityCompare" description: "Is Home-Start Portsmouth a legitimate UK charity? Clarity Score 66/100. Accounts 2025: income £961k · 0% on charitable activities. Reg 1124943." source: https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity/home-start-portsmouth retrieved: 2026-08-18T05:25:11.799Z license: "Charity data © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0" --- Quick answer ## Is Home-Start Portsmouth a good charity? Home-Start Portsmouth scores 66/100 (3 stars, Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, calculated from its UK regulator filings. Its latest accounts year is 2025 (£961k total income, 0% of spending on charitable activities). This reflects financial transparency and stewardship on paper — not the real-world impact of its programmes. See the full breakdown. Portsmouth · PO1 4HA | Reg [1124943](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity/home-start-portsmouth) | Registered charity | [Official website](https://www.hsportsmouth.org.uk/) | [Charity Commission register](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/1124943) Donate ## How can you give to HOME-START PORTSMOUTH? You leave CharityCompare to complete a donation on the official HOME-START PORTSMOUTH form. We do not process payments or take commission. Opens their official online donation form. [Donate](https://www.hsportsmouth.org.uk/?utm_source=charitycompare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=donate&utm_content=1124943) ## What does Home-Start Portsmouth do? Home-Start Portsmouth is a registered charity (no. 1124943) working in poverty relief in Portsmouth · PO1 4HA. Its latest Charity Commission filing directs 0% of spending to charitable activities, holding roughly 4 months of reserves, though its recent accounts were filed late. Reported income has been growing (≈36% a year). CharityCompare's Clarity Score rates the organisation only from public Charity Commission accounts — accountability, financial health, efficiency and community support — not the quality or impact of its programmes. Summarised from public filings — Home-Start Portsmouth hasn't added its own description yet. [Work here? Add it free →](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/claim?charity=home-start-portsmouth) **In short:** HOME-START PORTSMOUTH scores 66 out of 100 (3 stars). 0% average program spend (2-year average, disclosed years only). Review the pillar breakdown below. ## What is Home-Start Portsmouth? Home-Start Portsmouth has a Clarity Score of 66 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars, Needs improvement). Charity Commission registration number 1124943. Status: Registered. Primary cause area: Poverty relief. Latest accounts year 2025: total income £961k, with 0% of expenditure on charitable activities. Accounts filing: late. Reserves: approximately 4 months of operating costs. 2 filing concern(s) noted on this profile. Scores are independent and based on official filings — not a donation recommendation. Data from [Charity Commission register](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/), last updated 17 July 2026. Overall score 66/100 3★ · Needs improvement Cause spend 0% 2-yr avg · charitable activities Accountability 75/100 Finance beacon Income £961k Latest year 2025 Reserves 4 mo Months of running costs Accounts filing Late Check register £1.2 raised per £1 fundraising (2-yr avg) · 67% overhead · Website on register · Confidence: medium ## How does HOME-START PORTSMOUTH compare? Clarity Score percentile against similar UK charities — the share of peers HOME-START PORTSMOUTH scores higher than. Income band (£500k–£1m)19thpercentile **Scores higher than 19% of 2,187 charities in its income band** · 66/100 vs 79 peer average (marker). Poverty relief charities18thpercentile **Scores higher than 18% of 1,502 charities in this cause** · 66/100 vs 78 peer average (marker). ## How reliable is Home-Start Portsmouth's data? Source Charity Commission (England & Wales) Accounts year 2025 Filing date 24 June 2026 Profile reviewed 17 July 2026 Medium confidence — some data missing or late Scores reflect the latest annual accounts on the register. Clarity Score measures how clearly the charity accounts for money in those filings — not programme impact. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: [Charity Commission for England and Wales](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/), [Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator](https://www.oscr.org.uk/) and [Charity Commission for Northern Ireland](https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/). [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). ## What is Home-Start Portsmouth's Beacon report? Detailed accountability and finance metrics from UK regulator filings — structured for transparency in our four-beacon report. ### Accountability & Transparency Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies. 75/100 | Metric | Score | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | Filing history (5 years) 100% on-time over five years = 15 pts · one late filing = 5 pts · two or more = 0 pts. | 33% | 5/15 pts | | Trustee oversight Three or more trustees on the register = 15 pts, scaled down for fewer (governance red flag below three). | 100% | 8 trustees · 15/15 pts | | Declared policies Safeguarding (4) · conflict of interest (3) · volunteer management (3) — from Charity Commission annual return. | 100% | 10/10 pts | ### Financial Health Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts. 87/100 | Metric | Score | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | Reserves (months of cash) 3–24 months = full marks, tapering on both sides · 0 months or 4+ years (hoarding) = 0 pts. | 100% | 4 months · 15/15 pts | | Income stability / growth +20% or more over the window = 10 pts · flat = 5 pts · −20% or worse = 0 pts, scaled between. | 100% | 10/10 pts · 3-year average | | Liabilities to assets 0% liabilities-to-assets = 5 pts, scaling down to 0 pts at 60%+ debt. | 20% | 51% · 1/5 pts | ### Financial Efficiency How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios. 0/100 | Metric | Score | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | Program expense ratio 90%+ on charitable activities = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 50% or below. | 0% | 0% · 0/10 pts (3-year average) | | Fundraising efficiency ≤10p to raise £1 = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 40p or above (fundraising cost ÷ income). | 0% | 63p per £1 income · 0/10 pts (3-year average) | ### Community Support Grassroots backing from Charity Commission workforce data — volunteers vs paid staff. 100/100 | Metric | Score | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | Volunteer-to-staff ratio Volunteers at 2x staff or more = full marks · no volunteers = 0 pts, scaled between. | 100% | 100 volunteers / 29 staff · 10/10 pts | [How we calculate beacon scores →](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/methodology) ## What is Home-Start Portsmouth's Clarity Score? 66/100 total · Needs improvement · 3 of 5 stars Four pillars (40 + 30 + 20 + 10 points) from Charity Commission filings — see methodology for full weightings. 75/100 Accountability & Transparency 87/100 Financial Health 0/100 Financial Efficiency 100/100 Community Support ### Accountability & Transparency Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies. 75/100 Filing history (5 years)5/15 pts Trustee oversight8 trustees · 15/15 pts Declared policies10/10 pts ### Financial Health Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts. 87/100 Reserves (months of cash)4 months · 15/15 pts Income stability / growth10/10 pts · 3-year average Liabilities to assets51% · 1/5 pts ### Financial Efficiency How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios. 0/100 Program expense ratio0% · 0/10 pts (3-year average) Fundraising efficiency63p per £1 income · 0/10 pts (3-year average) ### Community Support Grassroots backing from Charity Commission workforce data — volunteers vs paid staff. 100/100 Volunteer-to-staff ratio100 volunteers / 29 staff · 10/10 pts ## How much does Home-Start Portsmouth raise and spend? Latest filed year 2025 · Source: Charity Commission filings | Category | Amount | % of spend | | --- | --- | --- | | Total income | £961k | — | | Total expenditure | £1.1m | — | | Charitable activities | £4k | 0% | | Fundraising | £1.0m | 100% | 0%On charitable activities ## Where does the money go? Latest accounts (2025) · £1.1m spent - Charitable activities0% · £4k - Fundraising100% · £1.0m ## What trust indicators does Home-Start Portsmouth have? Pulled from the Charity Commission register — filing behaviour, board size, and workforce where reported. - — Accounts filed on time Filing status: late - ✓ Trustee board size (3–12) 8 trustees on the Charity Commission register - ✓ Workforce on register 29 employees · 100 volunteers (3:1 volunteer-to-staff) Fundraising Regulator Status not yet checked Separate from our financial scores — shows whether the charity follows the Code of Fundraising Practice. [Check Fundraising Regulator →](https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/members/) Official register Reg 1124943 Full trustee list, accounts, and regulatory history on the Charity Commission. [View on Charity Commission →](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/1124943) ### Trustees & officers - Bev Vaughan since 2020 - Linda Vivienne Jenkins since 2021 - Andrew John Osborn since 2023 - Tarnia Simmons since 2023 - Joanne Kate Goodship since 2023 - Simon John Benfield Chair · since 2024 - Susan Claire Bland since 2024 - Hugh Jonathan Crutchfield since 2025 100 How we score charities +The Clarity Score is a 100-point rating from UK regulator filings (Charity Commission for England and Wales, OSCR and CCNI). Four pillars — Accountability & Transparency (40), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10) — each scored on a continuous scale, not pass/fail cutoffs. A statutory inquiry sets the score to 0 automatically. [Full methodology →](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/methodology) Accountability & Transparency Scored from filings 40 points — filing history (15), trustee oversight (15, scaling up to a board of three or more), declared policies (10). Financial Health Scored from filings 30 points — reserves (15, full marks 3–24 months, tapering on both sides), income stability (10), liabilities to assets (5, scaling down as debt rises). Financial Efficiency Scored from filings 20 points — program expense ratio and fundraising cost, each on a graduated scale (not a single cutoff). Kept at 20% of the total: financial-ratio scoring alone is not a reliable effectiveness signal (see "why not just an overhead ratio?" below). Community Support Scored from filings 10 points — volunteer-to-staff ratio from Charity Commission workforce data, scaling continuously up to a 2:1 ratio. Overall score Sum of all pillar points. Display stars use the same bands as the labels: 90–100 → 5★ Exceptional; 75–89 → 4★ Good; 60–74 → 3★ Needs improvement; 1–59 → 2★ Poor; 0 → not rated. ## How have Home-Start Portsmouth's finances changed over five years? - Income - Spending - Cause spend Values in £ thousands · Cause spend plotted only when the filing discloses a split · Source: Charity Commission accounts ## What are the key facts about Home-Start Portsmouth? Overall score 66/100 (3★) Income £961k Cause spend 0% of expenditure Reg number 1124943 Scope Local (portsmouth) Reserves 4 months Trustees 8 Accounts year 2025 Filing late ## How does HOME-START PORTSMOUTH compare, and where else can you look? [Compare HOME-START PORTSMOUTH with others](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/compare-charities?ids=home-start-portsmouth) [More poverty relief charities](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/browse/poverty) [How we score charities](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/methodology) ### Where HOME-START PORTSMOUTH sits The causes this charity is classified under, and other charities working nearby. - [poverty charities](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/browse/poverty) - [health charities](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/browse/health) - [education charities](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/browse/education) - [children charities](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/browse/children) - [Charities in Portsmouth](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/cities/portsmouth) - [poverty charities in Portsmouth](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/browse/poverty/portsmouth) ### Similar poverty relief charities Top-rated peers by CharityCompare score - [AMOS TRUST](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity/amos-trust) 100/100 · £2.6m - [SUFRA - NW LONDON](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity/sufra-nw-london) 100/100 · £1.7m - [WILDERNESS FOUNDATION UK](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity/wilderness-foundation-uk) 100/100 · £1.6m - [BIRMINGHAM CITY MISSION](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity/birmingham-city-mission) 100/100 · £1.4m ## How can you share Home-Start Portsmouth's rating? 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Free to use — a lightweight HTML badge or an embeddable score widget, each linking back to this independent profile and our [methodology](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/methodology). BadgeScore widget [♥ CharityCompare Clarity Score 66/100 ★★★★★](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity/home-start-portsmouth) Lightweight HTML badge (no iframe) — paste anywhere ♥ CharityCompare Clarity Score 66/100 ★★★★★ Copy code ## What red flags does Home-Start Portsmouth have? ## Frequently asked questions Common questions about Home-Start Portsmouth's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status. Is Home-Start Portsmouth a good charity? + Home-Start Portsmouth scores 66 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 0% of its spending goes to charitable activities and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate. Is Home-Start Portsmouth a legitimate charity? + Yes — Home-Start Portsmouth is a legitimate registered charity (charity number 1124943). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/1124943. Registration proves status; Clarity Score then summarises filing transparency on paper, not programme impact. What is Home-Start Portsmouth's charity number? + Home-Start Portsmouth's charity number is 1124943. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals. What is Home-Start Portsmouth's charity rating? + Home-Start Portsmouth scores 66 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score V1 sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking. Does Home-Start Portsmouth have reviews and complaints? + CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Home-Start Portsmouth. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 filing concern(s) noted on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate. How much of my donation reaches Home-Start Portsmouth? + According to its 2025 regulator filing, 0% of Home-Start Portsmouth's total spending went to charitable activities (2-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift. What are Home-Start Portsmouth's overheads? + According to its 2025 regulator filing, fundraising costs were about 100% of total expenditure and combined overheads (fundraising plus governance) were about 67% of total expenditure at Home-Start Portsmouth. The filings CharityCompare uses do not publish CEO or senior-staff pay, so we cannot say what Home-Start Portsmouth's chief executive is paid — where disclosure rules apply, senior pay appears in the trustees' annual report on the Charity Commission register. How much income does Home-Start Portsmouth receive? + Home-Start Portsmouth reported £961k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing. Are Home-Start Portsmouth's accounts up to date? + Filing status: late (last filing 2026-06-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score. Where is Home-Start Portsmouth based? + Home-Start Portsmouth is listed at Portsmouth · PO1 4HA, focused on poverty relief. How does CharityCompare score Home-Start Portsmouth? + We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Home-Start Portsmouth's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought. How often is this page updated? + This profile was last updated on 17 July 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Home-Start Portsmouth's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.