HOPE FOR TOMORROW

Registered charity 1094677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hope for Tomorrow is a national cancer charity dedicated to making life easier for those suffering from cancer, and helping their dependents and families to cope with the difficulties they face.The Charities prime focus is to fund, build and maintain Mobile Chemotherapy Units, and then work in partnership with NHS Trusts to provide chemotherapy treatment closer to home.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS, AND THE ADVANCEMENT, STUDY AND TREATMENT OF CANCER.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE UNITED KINGDOM

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.0m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased significantly to £1,021,272 from £1,389,307 in the prior year, resulting in a net expenditure of £471,490. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £267,510, which the trustees note is below their policy target of six months' operating costs, equating to approximately 3.5 months. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient cash resources to continue operations for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £268k; policy: at least six months of the Charity's essential operating costs)
“Free reserves at the balance sheet date were £267,510 (2025: £285,639), which equates to approximately 3.5 (2025: 3.7) months of our 2026-27 budgeted essential operating costs.” — page 18
Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations from Trustees
“Total donations received from Trustees during the year, without conditions, were £615 (2025: £480).” — page 43
“One (2025: one) Trustee, Claire Maddox is a Director of a company, SCG South West Limited who received £5,192 (2025: £5,478) in respect of expenditure incurred on telephone and broadband services during the year.” — page 43
Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Payment to SCG South West Limited (Director Claire Maddox)
“Total donations received from Trustees during the year, without conditions, were £615 (2025: £480).” — page 43
“One (2025: one) Trustee, Claire Maddox is a Director of a company, SCG South West Limited who received £5,192 (2025: £5,478) in respect of expenditure incurred on telephone and broadband services during the year.” — page 43
Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Payment to Gerrard Financial Consulting Limited (Director Jennifer Gerrard, Head of Finance)
“Total donations received from Trustees during the year, without conditions, were £615 (2025: £480).” — page 43
“One (2025: one) Trustee, Claire Maddox is a Director of a company, SCG South West Limited who received £5,192 (2025: £5,478) in respect of expenditure incurred on telephone and broadband services during the year.” — page 43
Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026

  • Volunteers: 51
  • Government income: £4,850 — grants £4,850 (8); under 1% of the £1,021,272 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 87
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 27
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hope for Tomorrow (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Total income
£1.0m
Total spending
£1.5m
Cost of raising funds
£576k
Reserves (reported)
£329k
Employees
18

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 56.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2026£1.0m£1.5m
31/03/2025£1.4m£1.5m
31/03/2024£1.6m£1.4m
31/03/2023£997k£1.3m
31/03/2022£1.2m£1.1m

Common questions

Is HOPE FOR TOMORROW financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased significantly to £1,021,272 from £1,389,307 in the prior year, resulting in a net expenditure of £471,490. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £267,510, which the trustees note is below their policy target of six months' operating costs, equating to approximately 3.5 months. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient cash resources to continue operations for at least 12 months. Its FY2026 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds HOPE FOR TOMORROW?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOPE FOR TOMORROW as a grant recipient include DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF STROUD HOSPITALS AND RELATED HEALTH PROVISION, JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST, BNA CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION, THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BEAVERBROOK FOUNDATIONFY2024Unverified read£181k
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£50kGeneral charitable funding
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£50kGeneral charitable funding
THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF STROUD HOSPITALS AND RELATED HEALTH PROVISIONFY2021£33kWeekly chemotherapy and other cancer treatment from a specialist mobile unit
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£30k
BNA CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATIONFY2024£25k
THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021£20k
BNA CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATIONFY2025£20k
THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£17k
BNA CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATIONFY2025£15k
THE MEDLOCK CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£15k
THE MEDLOCK CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£15k
THE GEOFF & FIONA SQUIRE FOUNDATIONFY2021£14k
THE ASTOR FOUNDATIONFY2025£13kMedical
THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£12k
THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2024£10k
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATIONFY2021£10k
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£10k
THE BOLTINI TRUSTFY2024£10k
THE BOLTINI TRUSTFY2025£10k
THE BOLTINI TRUSTFY2021£10kMedical Research / Medical Institutions
THE BOLTINI TRUSTFY2023£10kMedical Research I Medical Institutions
THE NEUMARK FOUNDATIONFY2022£10k
THE PHILIP OPPENHEIMER FOUNDATIONFY2026£10k
THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2025£10k
THE BURDETT TRUST FOR NURSINGFY2021£8kEnable nurses to provide vital cancer care within rural and small town communities
THE LAWSON TRUST CIOFY2025£6k
THE ANNANDALE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£5k
PINK RIBBON FOUNDATIONFY2024Unverified read£5k
BRITISH HUMANE ASSOCIATIONFY2024£5k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIOFY2024£5kOther grants
SUSANNA PEAKE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£5k
THE EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN AND LEONORA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONFY2022£5kDonation to general funds
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£5k
THE BEAVERBROOK FOUNDATIONFY2025£5k
SUSANNA PEAKE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£5k
THE CHARLES AND ELSIE SYKES TRUSTFY2025£5kTowards the West Yorkshire mobile units that visit Skipton, Ilkley, Settle and Bingley to provide cancer care and treatments outside of Airedale Hospital locate
THE LAWSON TRUST CIOFY2021£5k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITEDFY2023£5kLife-Limiting
THE ANNANDALE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£5k
PINK RIBBON FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k
THE WOGEN ANNIVERSARY TRUSTFY2022£4k
SCHRODER CHARITY TRUSTFY2025£4k
BRITISH HUMANE ASSOCIATIONFY2025£4k
PINK RIBBON FOUNDATIONFY2021£3kSomething To Look Forward To
SCHRODER CHARITY TRUSTFY2022£3k
THE TONY BRAMALL CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£3k
THE TONY BRAMALL CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2026£3k
THE GORDON GRAY TRUSTFY2025£3k
E F AND M G HALL CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£3k

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Somerset Community Foundation13/09/2018£3kBumble's New Body Appeal

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 BREAST CANCER HOPE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HOPE FOR TOMORROW£1.0m—0below—no doubt
BREAST CANCER HOPE FY2026£56k—0unclear—no doubt
HOPE FOR TOMORROW GLOBAL FY2025£259k—0above—no doubt
THE HOPE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH FY2025£628k£60,000 - £69,9991above—no doubt
FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED FY2025£2.1m——below—no doubt
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE FY2025£422k—0within—no doubt

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