HOPE CHURCH HARROGATE

Registered charity 1151360 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancing the Christian faith by holding regular Sunday and mid-week meetings for worship and teaching. Running Alpha courses.Relief of poverty by working with and supporting other churches and organisations including town pastors; Lifeline Harrogate (housing for homeless) Harrogate food bank and Horizon Life (support of reformed adicts)school work and our own childrens work

Objects

4 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE:A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN HARROGATE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFILL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.B) TO RELIEVE AGED PERSONS AND PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP, SICKNESS, OR DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM WHETHER IN CONNECTION WITH HOUSING OR ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE (WHETHER BY WAY OF LOAN GIFT THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER OR IN ANY OTHER WAY) IN HARROGATE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION WHETHER OF CHILDREN (ABOVE OR BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE) OR OF ADULTS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £27,486 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £267,224 and total expenditure of £294,710. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £117,235, which exceeds the stated policy target of £74,590 (six months of gross salary expenses). The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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

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 08420082

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hope Church Harrogate (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.

• MARSH, David Jeremy — director, appointed 06/10/2022on trustee list
• AKINRINOLA, Oluwatoyin Rasidat — director, appointed 06/10/2022on trustee list
• SHEPHERD, Rebecca Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/10/2022on trustee list
• ZAMBONINI, Paolo Giovanni Italo — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list
• KUNAR, Darren Mitra — director, appointed 02/12/2021on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Stephen Laurie — director, appointed 01/04/2015on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Stephen Laurie — secretary, appointed 02/12/2021

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Williamschair
• Darren Kunar
• David Jeremy Marsh
• Oluwatoyin Rasidat Akinrinola
• Paolo Zambonini
• Rebecca Elizabeth Shepherd

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

Operates in: Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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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 HOPE CHURCH (UK).

• HOPE CHURCH (UK) income £132k
• Hope Church (AOG) income £82k
• HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH (WYMONDHAM) income £416k
• HOPE CHURCH WINCHESTER income £975k
• HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH AINTREE income £158k
• HOPE ASSEMBLY income £66k

Side by side with its peers

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