HOPE FOR THE NATIONS CHILDRENS CHARITY

Registered charity 1098715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KwattSwap

The goal of Hope for the Nations is to raise funds and awareness and distribute money in the form of grants, equipment and social investments to those working with orphans, widows, the vulnerable and schools in areas of extreme poverty.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ADVANCE EDUCATION WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, EQUIPMENT, TRAINING AND PERSONNEL, PARTICULARLY BUT 'NOT EXCLUSIVELY' TO THOSE PERSONS LIVING IN AFRICA

Area of benefit: AFRICA

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £28,033 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income declining to £63,802 from £74,630 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £130,865, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £5,000. The charity holds no invested funds and has no trading subsidiaries, relying on donations and legacies for its operations.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2022 (received 03/06/2023, 3 days after the 31/05/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04432345
• Trading subsidiary: HFTN SHOP LIMITED Companies House 07316229
• Trading subsidiary: HFTN SHOP (H&V) LTD Companies House 14446402

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hope For The Nations (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.

• SAUNDERS, Leslie Michael — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• GROVER, Keith Alistair — director, appointed 21/01/2017on trustee list
• SYMONS, William Russel — director, appointed 26/01/2008not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILL SYMONSchair
• Keith Alistair Grover
• Leslie Michael Saunders

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

Operates in: Eswatini · India · Kenya · Malawi · Romania

Income and spending

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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 HOPE FOR THE YOUNG LIMITED.

• HOPE FOR THE YOUNG LIMITED income £537k
• SOURCE OF HOPE LIMITED income £148k
• HOPE FOR TOMORROW GLOBAL income £259k
• HELP TO CREATE HOPE TRUST income £2.1m
• HOPE'S PLACE income £41k
• FOUNDATIONS FOR HOPE income £198k

Side by side with its peers

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