A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE

Registered charity 1162178 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

a little bit of HOPE raises money in the UK to fund grass-roots development programmes in the Butaleja District of Uganda. We currently work across three areas; Education, Water & Sanitation and Livelihoods.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-4.1. TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO CHARITIES, OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE BUTALEJA DISTRICT OF UGANDA IN FULFILMENT OF THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES:-4.1.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;4.1.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND/OR SAVING OF LIVES; AND4.1.3. THE RELIEF AND/OR PREVENTION OF POVERTY; AND4.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR AS REGARDS ISSUES CONCERNING THE RELIEF AND/OR PREVENTION OF POVERTY.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended 2024 with a cash balance of £7,054, which is below the previous year's balance of £13,952. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves were £3,054, falling short of the stated policy target to retain a minimum of £4,000. Total expenditure of £52,956 exceeded total income of £46,057, resulting in a decrease in overall reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMY BETH Spooner
• Kathryn Angharad Lifford
• MALCOLM BEBB
• Temitope Olusi · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

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