HOPE AND RESTORATION

Registered charity 1158452 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as H&R TRAINING PROFESSIONALS

Providing skills development workshops, employment support and work placement opportunities to the unemployed, Job seekers, low skilled and those Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) to enable them gain the right skills, confidence and personal awareness to facilitate their progression into employment, self-employment or further learning.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE WITH WORK PLACEMENTS, JOB SEARCHES, JOB APPLICATION, CV WRITING, EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT AND AFTER-CARE2. TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG ECONOMICALLY AND/OR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE MAINLY BUT NOT LIMITED TO LONE PARENTS, YOUNG PEOPLE NOT IN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT OR TRAINING (NEET), JOB SEEKERS, LOW INCOME EARNERS AND THOSE WITH LITTLE OR NO QUALIFICATIONS (“THE BENEFICIARIES”) THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT TO ENABLE THESE INDIVIDUALS SEEK SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT OR SELF EMPLOYMENT AND BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT.3. TO OTHERWISE ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE BENEFICIARIES, OR THE WIDER PUBLIC AS MAY BE DETERMINED, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ACCREDITED COURSES TO INCREASE THEIR SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES AND CONFIDENCE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Enfield, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£30k
Latest spending
£13k
Registered
2014
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £16,350 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources of £29,503. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern, citing secured continuation funding and cost-reduction measures that support its immediate future for the next 12 to 18 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: One trustee received £1,536 for specialised work.
“Director/trustee was paid a remuneration of £1,536 during this financial year for specialised work.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustee remuneration
“Director/trustee was paid a remuneration of £1,536 during this financial year for specialised work.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Government income: £1,500 — grants £1,500 (1); 5% of the £29,503 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2022

  • Volunteers: 2

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Barnet · Enfield · Hackney · Haringey · Islington · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£30k£13k
31/08/2024£5k£10k
31/08/2023£23k£25k
31/08/2022£15k£22k
31/08/2021£6k£24k

Common questions

Is HOPE AND RESTORATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £16,350 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources of £29,503. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern, citing secured continuation funding and cost-reduction measures that support its immediate future for the next 12 to 18 months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund03/03/2023£10kSkills & employability support and Tackling Cost of Living Crisis
The National Lottery Community Fund03/12/2021£10kUp-Skilling Unemployed Lone Parents and Capacity Building
UK government04/08/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund23/05/2019£10kPathway 2 Employability/Classroom Assistant Skills Training
The National Lottery Community Fund28/07/2016£10kPathway to IT for over 50's Pilot Project
The National Lottery Community Fund11/09/2009£10kGrassroots Coaching and Mentoring Programme

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 HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HOPE AND RESTORATION£30k—0unclear—no doubt
HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED FY2024£1.7m——unclear—no doubt
THE HOPE CHARITY FY2025£187k—0below—noted
THE HOPE HUB FY2026£647k—0unclear—no doubt
COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE FY2024£261k—0within—no doubt
HOPE'S PLACE FY2025£41k—0above—no doubt

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