FILWOOD HOPE LTD

Registered charity 1067441 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FILWOOD HOPE

To provide free advice services, counselling and support with form filling, writing letters and contacting statutory bodies to people in the Knowle West Estate, in particular, and generally in South Bristol

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS BOTH CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN SUFFERING FROM MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES, FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, AND STRESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MAY THINK FIT.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £21,146 for the year, with total income rising to £106,786 from £58,482 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £40,158, providing a buffer for ongoing operations. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Iain Pope
• Ian Watt
• Rev BERNARD ALLANZO MORRIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Clive Hamilton
• Tilly Marston

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP KNOWLE WEST.

• COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP KNOWLE WEST income £289k
• FAIRHOLT CHARITY TRUST income £39k
• LILONGWE WELFARE TRUST income £28k
• GROWING HOPE SOLENT income £81k
• THE LIVING HOPE income £61k
• DON’T LOSE HOPE income £301k

Side by side with its peers

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