HOPE FAMILY TRUST

Registered charity 1157921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARKING FOODBANK

charitable works mainly focused on social activities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS THAT ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY(A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND / OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY (B) RELIEVING PERSONS LIVING IN THE UK WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED. (C) THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE IN PARTICULAR BY PROVISION OF HEALTH SUPPORT, WATER, SANITATION, EMERGENCY RELIEF, ADVANCEMENT OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, PEACE, RECONCILIATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THEREIN. (D) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES AND TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS, SUPPORTED BY CHURCHES IN BARKING

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £71,999 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £264,289. The document notes that these unrestricted funds are available as general funds for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose. No material uncertainties or risks to continuing operations are disclosed in the filing.

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.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hope Family Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sylvester Ighoruechair
• Adekunle Adeyinka Ogunleye
• CHIOMA ONYEABOR
• Christina Tissen
• KEREN-ODY ANUMBA
• Nkonyeasua Jennifer Williams

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• HOPE FOR MANKIND income £1.2m
• GIFT OF HOPE TRUST LTD income £77k
• The Family Trust income £4.8m
• HELP TO CREATE HOPE TRUST income £2.1m
• HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS income £254k
• ONE HOPE FOUNDATION income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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