HOPE'S CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLES SUPPORT SERVICES

Registered charity 1135680 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOPE SUPPORT SERVICES

Hope Support Services is a Herefordshire charity set up to support young people & children when a close family member is diagnosed with a life threatening illness. From the moment of diagnosis support is immediate, preventative and continuing. It could be online or in person, depending on location in UK.Our vision is to build a foundation of support for young people within their own community.

Objects

(1) To relieve the mental and physical sickness of persons resident in the United Kingdom, in particular children and young people suffering from bereavement or loss or a serious health crisis of a family member by the provision of workshops and support.(2) To advance the education of professionals working with children and young people suffering from bereavement, loss or the serious illness of a family member by the provision of training.

Area of benefit: HEREFORDSHIRE

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with total funds of £232,796, an increase from £210,355 the previous year, driven by a net income of £22,441. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with unrestricted funds of £136,396 held in cash reserves earning stable interest. The charity's primary income source is restricted grants, which accounted for the majority of its £301,417 total income.

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.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hope Support Services (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Zinnia Joanne Wilkinsonchair
• Alessandra Grenar
• Fiona Jane Reed
• Hasaan Mohammed Amin
• Helen Elizabeth Bolt
• Kimberley Jade Dawson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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

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

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 CHARITY PROJECT.

• HOPE CHARITY PROJECT income £36k
• HOPE FOR FAMILIES income £66k
• HOPESPRING income £2.4m
• NORTHAMPTON HOPE CENTRE income £1.3m
• HOPE FOR THE YOUNG LIMITED income £537k
• HOPE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICES income £14.8m

Side by side with its peers

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