ACTIVE HOPE

Registered charity 1140534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES TO GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Objects

( I ) TO EDUCATE AND ASSIST YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITYSO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY GROW TO FULLMATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BEIMPROVED(2) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warrington, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased significantly from £142,645 to £52,330, while restricted funds increased to £52,768, resulting in total net assets of £105,098. The trustees report maintaining reserves at a level equivalent to between three and six months' expenditure, which they consider sufficient to continue activities in the event of a funding drop. The charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07490362

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Active Hope (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.

• ROGERS, Lee David — director, appointed 18/04/2024on trustee list
• AVERY, Fiona Louise — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• HUGHES, Ruth Helen — director, appointed 20/07/2017on trustee list
• SHIELDS, Alan Leslie — director, appointed 21/01/2016not on trustee list
• HATTON, Susan Margaret — director, appointed 19/11/2015on trustee list
• CURTIS, Keith — director, appointed 12/01/2011on trustee list
• PALMER, Graham Robert, Dr — director, appointed 12/01/2011on trustee list
• CURTIS, Jonathan George — director, appointed 12/01/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Louise Avery Mrs
• Graham Palmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• JONATHAN CURTIS
• KEITH CURTIS
• Lee Rogers
• RUTH HELEN HUGHES
• SUSAN MARGARET HATTON

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

Operates in: Warrington

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 The Hope Appeal.

• The Hope Appeal income £42k
• RESTORE HOPE income £1.4m
• NEW HOPE RELIEF income £53k
• HOPE CHURCH ALDERSHOT income £96k
• THE RECOVERY FOUNDATION income £158k
• THE HUBB FOUNDATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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