HOPE FOR CHILDREN

Registered charity 1161729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hope for Children works in partnership with local, national and community-based organisations and through its own staff to deliver a range of welfare and development programmes that enable children and young people to live a happy, healthy and positive childhood by improving their access to education and healthcare whilst empowering their families through sustainable livelihoods initiatives.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES PRIMARILY LIVING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND SICKNESS, ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF SUCH PERSONS.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Merged into CHANCE FOR CHILDHOOD (charity 1013587) — merger registered 22/07/2026.
Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).
Latest income
£160k
Latest spending
£240k
Registered
2015

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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)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Has a trading subsidiary
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2022)

Total income
£633k
Total spending
£406k
Cost of raising funds
£147k
Reserves (reported)
£474k
Employees
6

Reported reserves equal ~14.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Operates in: Kenya · Sri Lanka · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£160k£240k
31/03/2024£322k£497k
30/06/2023£466k£591k
30/06/2022£633k£406k
30/06/2021£545k£509k