CHAIN OF HOPE

Registered charity 1081384 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C O H, CHAIN OF HOPE UK, COH UK

Chain of Hope provides medical treatment for children and young persons overseas. Providing on-site and overseas training, mentoring and provision of equipment, Chain of Hope also builds up infrastructure to help to establish and develop cardiac services in developing countries. As an interim measure, Chain of Hope brings children to the UK and Europe for open and closed heart operations.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £4.88m and total expenditure of £5.61m, resulting in a net expenditure of £727k for the year. Despite this deficit, unrestricted reserves remained stable at £2.54m, supported by cash and current asset investments of £3.11m, which the trustees state ensures liquidity for ongoing activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore (South) LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chain of Hope (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub — President and Founder (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr IAN GAVIN WRIGHTchair
• Dr ALAN GORDON MAGEE
• Dr Kuberan Pushparajah
• Jason Edel
• Julie Plumridge
• Marc Walden-Lowe
• Maura O'Callaghan
• PROFESSOR SIR MAGDI YACOUB FRS, OM
• Prof Vibeke Hjortdal
• VICTOR TC TSANG

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

Operates in: Burundi · Egypt · El Salvador · Ethiopia · Jamaica · Kosovo · Mozambique · The Gambia · Throughout England · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TREE OF HOPE.

• TREE OF HOPE income £1.1m
• PROJECT HOPE, UNITED KINGDOM income £176k
• CHRISTIAN HOPE INTERNATIONAL income £399k
• HOPE CHURCH NETWORK income £259k
• HOPE FOR THE YOUNG LIMITED income £537k
• GROWING HOPE income £544k

Side by side with its peers

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