PROJECT HOPE, UNITED KINGDOM

Registered charity 1039457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PROJECT HOPE UK

Project HOPE UK works in developing countries and with communities in crisis wherever they may be, to reduce the impact of poverty by improving health, through targeted health education, strategic health-related training, the provision of emergency humanitarian assistance and modelling innovation and best practice leading to sustainable health improvements.

Objects

EITHER ACTING ALONE OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH OTHERS AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL DETERMINE: 1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND 2) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS, AFFLICTION AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY OF THE POPULATIONS OF DEVELOPING AND LESS FAVOURED COUNTRIES AND COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING COMMUNITIES EXISTING WITHIN DEVELOPED INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £175,545 against total expenditure of £177,053, resulting in a net expenditure. The charity held unrestricted reserves of £20,651 at year-end, which the trustees acknowledge is less than three months of operating costs, noting that income is subject to fluctuation.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 29/06/2021 (received 03/05/2022, 4 days after the 29/04/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02946010 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Big Lottery Fund — “In the past we received grants from: Big Lottery Fund” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• EVANS, Richard Gareth — director, appointed 29/05/2012on trustee list
• HEATH, Jamie Donald Huw — director, appointed 29/05/2012on trustee list
• FAWCETT, Amelia Chilcott, Dame — director, appointed 26/01/2011on trustee list
• CANNON, Lista Makimson — director, appointed 14/11/2006on trustee list
• THOMSON, Keith — director, appointed 02/05/2006on trustee list
• BLOCK-SCHLESIER, Anette Von — secretary, appointed 11/06/2019

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• D H Jamie Heath
• DAME AMELIA CHILCOTT FAWCETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEITH THOMSON
• LISTA MAKIMSON CANNON
• R Gareth Evans

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: South Africa · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS.

• HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS income £254k
• THE COMMUNITY HOPE PROJECT income £52k
• OPPORTUNITY TO HOPE income £9k
• PROJECT HOPE LEEDS income £92k
• NORTHAMPTON HOPE CENTRE income £1.3m
• HOPE FOR THE YOUNG LIMITED income £537k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.