HOPEWORX

Registered charity 1151572 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our aim is to meet the needs of our community which include emergency food packs to people in crisis and also quality affordable furniture to the general public and working in association with other agencies to those who find themselves in need.

Objects

1. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF ESSEX IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULL IN SOCIETY.2. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN ESSEX BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS/SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.

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 · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rochford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that gross profit as a percentage of total sales excluding donations was 76.5%, compared to 77.14% in the previous year. Staff and volunteer costs as a percentage of gross profit excluding donations decreased to 60.67% from 65.35% in 2024. The organization reports that donations and grants continue to mainly meet the demands for its services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07979812

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.

• CLAYTON, Jennifer May — director, appointed 27/01/2026not on trustee list
• BRANCH, Mark Graham — director, appointed 25/02/2025on trustee list
• HEYWORTH, Elaine Mary — director, appointed 25/02/2025on trustee list
• MICKLEWRIGHT, Dominic — director, appointed 25/02/2025on trustee list
• WHITTAKER, Beverley — secretary, appointed 25/02/2025

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dominic Micklewright
• Elaine Heyworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jenny Clayton
• MARK GRAHAM BRANCH · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex · Southend-on-sea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS.

• HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS income £254k
• HOPE CHURCH, IPSWICH income £932k
• HOPE CHURCH HATFIELD income £63k
• HOPE COMMUNITY PROJECT WOLVERHAMPTON income £208k
• HOPE CHURCH HARROGATE income £267k
• HOPE HOUSE PROJECT income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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