HOPE AND AID DIRECT

Registered charity 1077146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CONVOY OF HOPE AND AID DIRECT, HOPE AND AID

The provision of humanitarian aid for the relief of poverty and for the improvement of conditions of life. We obtain, transport and deliver aid directly to people who need it most, either directly or through known and trusted partners. If practical, we will respond to emergencies anywhere, but our focus has had to change from the Balkans to refugee crises in Europe, and currently Ukraine

Objects

To prevent or relieve poverty for the public benefit anywhere in the World, but in particular in Europe, by providing items, grants and services to individuals in need and/or to charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.

Area of benefit: PARTICULARLY TO TERRITORIES OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA BUT ALSO OTHER AREAS WITHIN EUROPE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is considered robust, with unrestricted cash funds of £328,460 at the end of the period. The charity operates entirely through unpaid volunteers and has no paid staff or trustees. All funds raised are unrestricted unless specifically allocated, and the charity practices good governance as expected by the Charity Commission.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES STORER MBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Robert Belton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: France · Greece · Kosovo · Moldova · Romania · Slovakia · Ukraine

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUMANITARIAN AID LIMITED.

• HUMANITARIAN AID LIMITED income £65k
• Human Hope income £78k
• HAYAT HUMANITARIAN AID income £459k
• DISASTER AID UK & IRELAND income £27k
• HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS income £254k
• BEING HUMANITARIAN income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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