WESEEHOPE

Registered charity 1079385 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOPE HIV

WeSeeHope is an international development organisation committed to creating sustainable change for vulnerable children across East Africa through community-led education, child rights and economic empowerment programmes developed and delivered in partnership with local NGOs and community-based organisations.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF ILL-HEALTH AND SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF ORPHANS AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND BEYOND.

Area of benefit: AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit for the year, with total funds decreasing from £514,032 to £265,394. Free reserves of £254,394 are within the trustees' stated target range of £191,000 to £447,000. The charity is dependent on future donations but the trustees have assessed adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03926278 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WeSeeHope (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• CHAPMAN, Clare Jane — director, appointed 25/06/2020on trustee list
• MILLS, Alastair Richard — director, appointed 19/01/2018on trustee list
• MADEIROS-MHENDE, Rachel Helen — director, appointed 14/01/2013on trustee list
• WALL, Philip Graham — director, appointed 17/10/2005on trustee list
• ADAMS, Michael Charles — director, appointed 01/03/2000on trustee list
• WALL, Wendy Susan — director, appointed 01/03/2000on trustee list
• MURIGI, Stephen — secretary, appointed 30/04/2026

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN GOSLING
• Alastair Richard Mills
• Clare Jane Chapman
• MICHAEL CHARLES ADAMS
• PETER MCQUADE
• PHILIP WALL
• RACHEL HELEN MADEIROS-MHENDE
• WENDY SUSAN WALL

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

Operates in: Kenya · Malawi · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 GIVE HOPE TRUST.

• GIVE HOPE TRUST income £61k
• GROWING HOPE income £544k
• WORLD VISION UK income £66.1m
• PROJECT HOPE, UNITED KINGDOM income £176k
• SURE HOPE CHURCH income £86k
• THE WSUP CHARITY income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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