TREE OF HOPE

Registered charity 1149254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC042611 (OSCR)

Tree of Hope is the fundraising charity that helps children and young people with a disability or illness by supporting their families to raise the money they need to pay for specialist operations, equipment, therapies and services that is not freely available through the UK healthcare system.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS OF SICK AND DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND GRANTS TO ENABLE THEM TO OBTAIN MEDICAL TREATMENT, THERAPIES AND EQUIPMENT WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE AVAILABLE TO THEM.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £526,571 for the year ended 30 September 2025, driven by a reduction in both restricted and unrestricted funds. Despite the deficit, the charity holds total funds of £3,423,037, including £2,096,462 in investments, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet debts as they fall due and maintain going concern status. The Trustees note that reserves are marginally below their target range of £270,000 to £280,000 but remain focused on diversifying income to ensure long-term financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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

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 — Tree of Hope (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Becky Andrew — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Sean Thompson — Chair (source)
• Laura Smith — Deputy Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Infinity Group — “"We had a brilliant day at Tree of Hope's annual golf day, which we support. It is great to continue our support to this great charity & we …” (source page)
• Arun Estates — “"We have a long association with the Tree of Hope and when we asked our staff which charity they would like to raise funds for this year I w…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sean Thompsonchair
• Constance Siakpere
• Elizabeth Anne McCormack
• Gareth Munn
• Jason Bunce · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Jennie Smith

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland · 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.

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 GROWING HOPE.

• GROWING HOPE income £544k
• SOURCE OF HOPE LIMITED income £148k
• TREETOPS HOSPICE TRUST income £5.7m
• CHAIN OF HOPE income £4.9m
• THE HOPE CHARITY income £187k
• TREE AID income £12.5m

Side by side with its peers

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