VISION OF HOPE ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY

Registered charity 1148671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VISION OF HOPE AAT

Vision of Hope was started to enable young people who have suffered through abuse and addiction to receive animal-assisted therapy. The Directors, have opened their home on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park to give these young people shelter, support, and time spent with the animals at their farm. The therapy has proved to be very helpful in building trust and bonding with the animals.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG EX-OFFENDER AND THOSE RECOVERING FROM ADDICTION BY PREVENTING THEM FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDING AND RELIVING THEIR NEEDS BY ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Animals · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £1,252,160 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £1,305,293. However, the independent auditors issued a qualified opinion because they were unable to obtain sufficient evidence regarding expenditure other than wages due to missing invoices and receipts. The trustees confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashmole and Co. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Cyril Albert Archard · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID BAKER
• Jeremy john Bailey · trustee of 3 other charities
• Mandy Hutchings
• Patricia Anne Norbury
• Sarah Margaret Baker

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE AND VISION COMMUNITIES.

• HOPE AND VISION COMMUNITIES income £497k
• HOPE RESCUE income £2.3m
• HOPEFIELD ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £1.1m
• H.O.P.E income £176k
• HOPE AT HOME income £245k
• inHope (Bristol) Limited income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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