Vita New Hope

Registered charity 1122262 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEW HOPE (LLANTWIT MAJOR)

Vita New Hope is a successful, next-generation development partner that supports Ethiopian and Eritrean women and their families and communities. We focus on delivering social impact, climate justice and gender equality through the delivery of innovative solutions of food, forestry, water and clean cooking.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE SICK-POOR LIVING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD PARTICULARLY SOUTH AMERICA AND ESPECIALLY NICARAGUA EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF PURIFICATION OF WATER AND MEDICAL AID

Area of benefit: THE DEVELOPING WORLD PARTICULARLY SOUTH AMERICA AND ESPECIALLY NICARAGUA

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £56,143, resulting in total funds carried forward of £27,000, a significant decrease from the previous year's £83,143. The unrestricted fund is in deficit at £(4,357), while the restricted Vita Green Impact Fund holds £27,000. The trustees acknowledge the need to safeguard income and control costs to ensure adequate reserves are in place to fulfil the charity's objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BPU Limited. Discloses 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2023 (received 10/10/2024, 193 days after the 31/03/2024 due date); year ending 31/05/2021 (received 27/02/2023, 333 days after the 31/03/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Robert Flatt
• Catherine Tunu Mwase
• Paul lindsay
• Ronan McCabe

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

Operates in: Eritrea · Nicaragua · Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEW HERITAGE FOUNDATION.

• NEW HERITAGE FOUNDATION income £67k
• THE HELP TIBET TRUST income £53k
• NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN income £171k
• ETHAR RELIEF income £3.0m
• VITA NOVA income £108k
• WATFORD NEW HOPE TRUST income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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