HYPO HOUNDS

Registered charity 1165858 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hypo Hounds is an assistance dog provider - providing Diabetic Alert Assistance Dogs to predominantly children with Type 1 Diabetes, we are able to assist adults if there is a clinical need.

Objects

The relief of sickness and the preservation of health in children , and the relief of children in need by reason of ill-health and disability, assisting children with chronic health conditions or illness (in particular, but without limitation, Type 1 Diabetes) by providing specialist assistance dogs to offer supportive care and assistance.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £40,520 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds carried forward. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains free reserves of £70,076, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months' expenditure (£65,452). The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hypo Hounds - Hounds Improving lives (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Axis Foundation — “Axis Foundation helping hand to Hypo Hounds buys a specialist Diabetic Alert Assistance dog - “One sniff at a time” Hypo Hounds save the liv…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Newtonchair
• Chloe Skinner
• Claire Springall
• Jamie Morgan
• Nicholas Bills
• Rosamaria Rossetti
• Steven Roper

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HELPING HOUNDS HAMPSHIRE.

• HELPING HOUNDS HAMPSHIRE income £60k
• HOUNDS FOR HEROES income £671k
• HELPFUL HOUNDS ASSISTANCE DOGS income £149k
• SUPPORT DOGS LIMITED income £2.2m
• HELPING YORKSHIRE POUNDIES (HYPS) income £343k
• HOPE RESCUE income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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