NEW HOPE WORCESTERSHIRE

Registered charity 1149659 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide relief to children and young adults under the age of 19 with a mental and/or physical disability and who are resident in Worcestershire, Herefordshire or Gloucestershire, to alleviate the effect of disability on such children and their carers and/or families, and to advance the education of such children and to relieve in cases of need, hardship or distress.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 19 WITH A MENTAL AND/OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY AND WHO ARE RESIDENT IN WORCESTERSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE OR GLOUCESTERSHIRE, TO ALLEVIATE THE EFFECT OF DISABILITY ON SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR CARERS AND/OR FAMILIES, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH CHILDREN; ANDTO RELIEVE IN CASES OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 19 RESIDENT IN WORCESTERSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE OR GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH CHILDREN.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £3,464 at the year end, having moved from a free reserves deficit of £10,442 in the prior year. The trustees consider this level of reserves to be sufficient for the running of the charity, noting that the organization has no formal reserves policy due to its small size. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £(7,393) for the year, primarily driven by expenditure on charitable activities exceeding 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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

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 — New Hope Worcestershire (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW HOWARTH
• JEAN WILSON
• Judith Doreen Owen
• Susan Catherine Sloane

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• NEW HOPE income £93k
• NEW HOPE NORTH EAST income £96k
• NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING income £95k
• WATFORD NEW HOPE TRUST income £3.0m
• HOPE HOUSE PROJECT income £122k
• HOPE AND HELP income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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