HOPE HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 1121132 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hope House School is an Independent School providing education and support for children and young people between the ages of 5 to 19 with an Autism diagnosis and associated conditions. Working with an engaging and creative curriculum, we provide our pupils with a range of experiences to develop their understanding of the world and to support them to become lifelong learners.

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Latest income

£2.0m

Latest spending

£1.4m

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £616,301 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £1,199,055. The trustees confirm that these reserves satisfy the stated policy target of maintaining three months' trading, based on assumed monthly expenditure of £100,000. The independent auditor reported that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £90,001 - £100,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)

“There was 1 employee (2023: 1) who received total employee benefits of more than £60,000. The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: £90,001-£100,000” — page 21

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“There was 1 employee (2023: 1) who received total employee benefits of more than £60,000. The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: £90,001-£100,000” — page 21

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three months trading (held: £1.2m)

“It is the policy of the Charity to maintain unrestricted free reserves at a sufficient level to finance three months trading. Assuming monthly expenditure of £100k per month, the Charity has been able to satisfy this target with a balance in the bank amounting to almost £1.2m at 31 December 24.” — page 6

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Rogers Spencer. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Michelle McRae — Headteacher (source)
Miriam Reynolds — Deputy Headteacher– SENDCo (source)
Shirley Turlukowsky — HR Manager (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £950k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£2.0m

Total spending

£1.4m

Reserves (reported)

£1.1m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (21/03/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Brian James Jones
James Barrie

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£2.0m	£1.4m
31/12/2023	£1.9m	£1.3m
31/12/2022	£1.3m	£1.3m
31/12/2021	£972k	£1.3m
31/12/2020	£1.4m	£1.3m

Common questions

Is HOPE HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £616,301 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £1,199,055. The trustees confirm that these reserves satisfy the stated policy target of maintaining three months' trading, based on assumed monthly expenditure of £100,000. The independent auditor reported that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Rogers Spencer.

What does the highest-paid employee of HOPE HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £90,001 - £100,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/02/2015	£10k	New HOPE

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST	2	£43k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	2	£11k
THE SCURRAH WAINWRIGHT CHARITY	2	£7k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	1	£861k
THE SENECA TRUST	1	£700k
ST. JAMES'S PLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£250k
Boodles Charitable Trust	1	£137k
THE BREADSTICKS FOUNDATION	1	£123k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICES.

HOPE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICES income £14.8m
THE HOPE CHARITY income £187k
HOPE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £398k
H.O.P.E income £176k
HOPE AT HOME income £245k
HOPE AND HOMES FOR CHILDREN income £8.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HOPE HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED	£2.0m	£90,001 - £100,000	1	above	—	no doubt
HOPE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICES FY2025	£14.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HOPE CHARITY FY2025	£187k	—	0	below	—	noted
HOPE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025	£398k	—	0	below	—	material uncertainty
H.O.P.E FY2025	£176k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HOPE AT HOME FY2025	£245k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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