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HOPE AND PLAY

Registered charity 1125609 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Every child has a right to grow up in a safe and playful environment with hope for a happy future. We create opportunities for children denied these rights. We have created seaside summer camps for children who have never seen the sea, built playgrounds in war-battered areas, sent educational laptops to schools in refugee camps, and stocked children's Libraries and classrooms.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£313k
Latest spending
£372k
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £59,010 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £81,990 to £22,980. The trustees note that the charity has no paid employees or paid trustees, with all UK activity carried out on a voluntary basis. The financial statements were prepared under the small companies regime and received an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

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.

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Lebanon · Occupied Palestinian Territories

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£313k£372k
31/07/2024£210k£158k
31/07/2023£68k£52k
31/07/2022£65k£73k
31/07/2021£86k£72k

Common questions

Is HOPE AND PLAY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £59,010 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £81,990 to £22,980. The trustees note that the charity has no paid employees or paid trustees, with all UK activity carried out on a voluntary basis. The financial statements were prepared under the small companies regime and received an independent examination rather than a full audit. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION1£861k
THE SENECA TRUST1£700k
THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL1£610k
ST. JAMES'S PLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£250k
THE ALBORADA TRUST1£235k
THE LINBURY TRUST1£150k
Boodles Charitable Trust1£137k
THE BREADSTICKS FOUNDATION1£123k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RAYS OF HOPE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HOPE AND PLAY£313k—0unclear—no doubt
RAYS OF HOPE FY2025£759k—0unclear—no doubt
H.O.P.E FY2025£176k—0unclear—no doubt
HOPE AND HOMES FOR CHILDREN FY2025£8.0m£120,000 - £129,999—unclear—no doubt
GROWING HOPE FY2025£544k—0unclear—no doubt
HOPE THROUGH ACTION FY2025£203k—0unclear—no doubt

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