Prepared for Home-Start Ealing by Adrian Taylor, 2026-10-05. If you work there and would rather this page came down, say so and it comes down.
Home-Start Ealing: what the records show, and what we could do together
Adrian Taylor runs Charity in a Box, after twenty years working in charities and public services. About Adrian.
1. What you say, and where we read it
We read your website (Home-Start Ealing | We're there for parents when they need us the most, because childhood can’t wait.) and your public channels.
“We then carefully match the volunteer with a family in need of support.” (homestartealing.org/about)
Figures you publish: “A team of 48 trained volunteers visit families at home and help support parents at the Family Groups.”; “A team of 48 trained volunteers visit families at home and help support parents at the Family Groups.”
Your channels: linkedin (closed to readers, not read); facebook (closed to readers, not read); instagram (closed to readers, not read).
2. Ealing’s charities, from outside
400 charities are based in Ealing, 10.9 for every 10,000 residents, where 32% of residents are on low incomes. 17% show under three months’ reserves or three years of deficits on their latest return; 5% take half or more of their income from government. The five largest hold 38% of the area’s charity income.
Families with young children in Ealing
In Ealing, the national network for your field (families with young children) sits below the middle of England's areas for the number of people counted there (gold in the chart below where a field has none recorded here or is in the thinnest fifth). Across England, 5,736 charities outside the field say in their own reports that they serve the same people, against 2,329 in it.
The 24 fields, against England
For each field of charity work we have mapped, where Ealing stands among England’s 152 areas for the presence of the national network per person in need. Gold bars are the fields where no presence is recorded here (8 of 24) and those in the thinnest fifth of areas (3).
Befriending
Cadets
Disability services
Drug and alcohol services
Homelessness
Kidney patients
Community foundations
Youth centres
Young people
Hospice care
Food aid
Unpaid carers
Almshouses
Community transport
Riding for the disabled
Mental health
Families with young children
Learning disability
Local infrastructure
Older people living alone
Legal help
Young people with SEND
Veterans
Dyslexia
Ealing: the bar is where the area stands among England's 152 areasnone recorded here, or in the thinnest fifthEngland's median area
Point at a bar for its figures.
Who does the work here, by register purpose
Ealing400 charities
Education/training228
Religious activities163
General charitable purposes144
Poverty relief114
Arts, culture, heritage, sci…80
Health74
Economic/community developme…66
Disability63
Amateur sport54
Overseas aid53
Other purposes41
Recreation30
A charity records up to three purposes, so the circles overlap. Point at one for its count.
Researchers who studied how charities support people with dementia across the United Kingdom concluded:
“National and local data sources could help charities and commissioners begin to identify inequalities of provision.”
Mayrhofer, Goodman, Lafortune, Smeeton, Littlechild, Shora and Bunn, Voluntary Sector Review, first published 2021. Read the paper.
This page is that view for Ealing.
3. Sample campaign
Three posts in your voice from the figures above, each with its picture, ready to use. Every figure is from public information and no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: Families with young children in Ealing: the national network's presence, for the people counted here, sits below the middle of England's areas. Who else does the work: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/home-start-ealing.html
LinkedIn: Families with young children in Ealing: the national network's presence, for the people counted here, sits below the middle of England's areas. Who else does the work: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/home-start-ealing.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 400 charities are based in Ealing: 10.9 for every 10,000 residents. We've read what they say they do. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/home-start-ealing.html
LinkedIn: 400 charities are based in Ealing: 10.9 for every 10,000 residents. We've read what they say they do. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/home-start-ealing.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 17% of Ealing's charities show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits on their latest return. Which fields, and who else is at work: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/home-start-ealing.html
LinkedIn: 17% of Ealing's charities show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits on their latest return. Which fields, and who else is at work: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/home-start-ealing.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Your area's charities from outside, with your own field first: how thin the known network is here for the people you work with, who else does the work, how exposed the area's charities are, what the money looks like. A page like this one, in full, refreshed each quarter.
£600 once, or £1,200 a year with four refreshes
A campaign from the findings
Three to five posts a month in your voice, each with its picture, from your area's own figures.
£250 a month
The first month: a twenty-minute call, your page in full within a week, and the first campaign posts the week after. Prices are set by income band from the public register and are the same for everyone in the band.
5. How to say yes
Reply to the email with a day that suits, call or text Adrian on the number in the email (it is on the Contact page too), or write to adrian@charityinabox.uk.
What this can and cannot say. These are counts over groups of charities and places from their own returns and reports and from national statistics. They do not rank any charity, name any, or say why. A thin field is one where the known network is thin for the people counted here, not one where nobody is helped.
Built from public information: the Charity Commission for England and Wales register and the annual reports charities file with it (OGL v3.0); Census 2021 (ONS); the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); the Claimant Count (ONS). Privacy.