HOPE4MALAWI

Registered charity 1151124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hope4Malawi helps relieve poverty in Malawi by investing in educational projects which aim to improve children's learning environments. Hope4Malawi raises funds for projects and facilitates trips where participants implement projects, teach in schools, take assemblies and run conferences and kids clubs.It also raises awareness of poverty related issues in the UK in schools and youth groups.

Objects

(A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP:1. BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY;2. BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.(B) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES, ASSEMBLIES, TEACHING, PREACHING AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENTS OF BELIEF APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULEALL OR ANY OF THE OBJECTS ABOVE WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN EASTERN OR SOUTHERN AFRICA(D) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD ABOUT THE CAUSES AND RELIEF OF POVERTY

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Epsom and Ewell, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£297k

Latest spending

£318k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £296,996 and total expenditure of £317,877 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £307,066, which exceeds its stated policy target of covering six months' contractual expenditure, and the trustees confirm the entity is a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months' contractual expenditure (reserves figure: £307k)

“Its reserves policy is to ensure that there are sufficient cash resources, within the General Fund and the maintenance fund, to cover 6 months’ contractual expenditure.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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 policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 5
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 5

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 6

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hope4Malawi (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

MARK SIMON GOODMAN MA, FCAchair
Alunda Young
Derrick Jones
Guy Stephenson
Rebecca Louise Stephenson
SARA ELIZABETH GOODMAN BSC, ACA
Sally Elizabeth Cunliffe
Shahrzad Sprunt

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

Operates in: Croydon · Kent · Malawi · Merton · Surrey · Sutton

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£297k	£318k
31/12/2024	£378k	£206k
31/12/2023	£206k	£252k
31/12/2022	£249k	£239k
31/12/2021	£144k	£128k

Common questions

Is HOPE4MALAWI financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £296,996 and total expenditure of £317,877 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £307,066, which exceeds its stated policy target of covering six months' contractual expenditure, and the trustees confirm the entity is a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HOPE4MALAWI?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOPE4MALAWI as a grant recipient include THE MILK AND HONEY TRUST, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN WITH SAINT JAMES, WEST EALING, THE PARISH OF SAINT PAUL'S HOWELL HILL WITH SAINT BARNABAS EPSOM.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MILK AND HONEY TRUST	FY2025	£30k	The Relief of Poverty
THE MILK AND HONEY TRUST	FY2023	£30k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN WITH SAINT JAMES, WEST EALING	FY2024	£10k
THE PARISH OF SAINT PAUL'S HOWELL HILL WITH SAINT BARNABAS EPSOM	FY2022	£4k	global
THE PARISH OF SAINT PAUL'S HOWELL HILL WITH SAINT BARNABAS EPSOM	FY2024	£3k	Grants made in furtherance of the PCC's objectives - Partners and other agencies
THE MILK AND HONEY TRUST	FY2024	£2k	The Relief of Poverty
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN WITH SAINT JAMES, WEST EALING	FY2025	£2k	International Christian organisations
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN WITH SAINT JAMES, WEST EALING	FY2022	£2k	International Christian organisations

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
MALAWI ORPHAN FUND	1	£64k
BROMLEY BAPTIST CHURCH	1	£27k
E3 INITIATIVE	1	£27k
THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE DEO GLORIA TRUST	1	£10k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER, IGHTHAM	1	£7k
THE GENERATIONS FOUNDATION	1	£7k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MALAWI COMMUNITY HUBS.

MALAWI COMMUNITY HUBS income £203k
BWENGU PROJECTS MALAWI income £33k
TILINANU EDUCATION income £35k
MALAWI ORPHAN FUND income £121k
MALAWI SCHOOLS TRUST income £43k
STARFISH MALAWI income £220k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HOPE4MALAWI	£297k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MALAWI COMMUNITY HUBS FY2025	£203k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BWENGU PROJECTS MALAWI FY2025	£33k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TILINANU EDUCATION FY2025	£35k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
MALAWI ORPHAN FUND FY2026	£121k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MALAWI SCHOOLS TRUST FY2025	£43k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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