HOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Registered charity 1094573 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

HOPE International Development Agency UK works with communities in extreme poverty to bring comprehensive transformation. We provide access to clean water - an essential basic resource; equip and empower men, women and children, with training in sanitation and hygiene; and strengthen livelihoods through women's self-help groups, and environmental protection and food security measures.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£184k

Latest spending

£60k

Registered

2002

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £11,062, which the trustees consider adequate to meet expenditure commitments for the next three months. Total income increased to £184,130, with the majority of funds transferred to partner organisations in Ethiopia and Myanmar. The charity is entitled to exemption from audit under the Companies Act 2006.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £11k)

“The trustees’ policy is to maintain reserves at the minimum level needed to meet known expenditure commitments in the next three months”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

ROSANNA Seymour ARMSTRONGchair
Billen Kebede Tesissa
CLARISSA MARY POULSON
Dr Daniel Newport
Simeon Luke Paton

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

Operates in: Cambodia · Ethiopia

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£184k	£60k
31/03/2024	£173k	£171k
31/03/2023	£150k	£147k
31/03/2022	£142k	£146k
31/03/2021	£75k	£79k

Common questions

Is HOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £11,062, which the trustees consider adequate to meet expenditure commitments for the next three months. Total income increased to £184,130, with the majority of funds transferred to partner organisations in Ethiopia and Myanmar. The charity is entitled to exemption from audit under the Companies Act 2006. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY as a grant recipient include THE BAND AID CHARITABLE TRUST, THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST, THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST, W F SOUTHALL TRUST, MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BAND AID CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£24k	Water and Sanitation
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	FY2023	£15k	Term Funding
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	FY2024	£15k	Term Funding
THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST	FY2022	£15k	TERM FUNDING
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£8k	Overseas Development
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2022	£3k	Social Action
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2023	£3k	Social Action
W F SOUTHALL TRUST	FY2024	£3k	Social Action
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k	International