THE HOPE CENTRE ST HELENS

Registered charity 1103903 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HOPE CENTRE

The Centre provides, assessment, information, advice and guidance through personally tailored action plans. The Training Department offers1. Computer Training2. Breathe Wellbeing Programme (Confidence, Assertiveness and Mentoring)3. Advice, Advocacy and Support for Homeless People4. Christmas Homeless Shelter

Objects

) “TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEF APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN ST HELENS AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN SUCH DOING TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE TRUST.II) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. A) FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL OR DRUGS; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; HOMELESSNESS OR POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOR MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS).III) TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY IN ST HELENS BY PROVIDING EDUCATION; TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED”.

Area of benefit: IN ST. HELENS AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St. Helens, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £39,236 for the year ended 31 March 2026, which decreased the level of restricted funds. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £274,920, exceeding the trustees' policy target of holding three months' running costs. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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
• 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)

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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 31/03/2023 (received 23/04/2024, 83 days after the 31/01/2024 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 05089663

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hope Centre - St Helens (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.

• MCDONAGH, Brendan — director, appointed 16/07/2023on trustee list
• SCHAFER, William James — director, appointed 16/07/2023on trustee list
• SWEENEY, John Christopher — director, appointed 16/07/2023on trustee list
• LAWRENSON, Craig Jon, Rev — director, appointed 05/03/2019on trustee list
• RYAN, John Francis — director, appointed 01/02/2007on trustee list
• SCOTT, Erin Elizabeth Fay — secretary, appointed 06/11/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (55% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN FRANCIS RYANchair
• Brendan McDonagh
• John Sweeney
• Rev Craig Lawrenson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Kelly
• William Schafer

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

Operates in: St Helens

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED.

• HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £1.7m
• CENTRE OF HOPE income £75k
• THE HOPE STREET CENTRE income £99k
• THE HOPE HUB income £647k
• HOPE CHURCH HARROGATE income £267k
• HOPE CENTRAL income £394k

Side by side with its peers

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