KINTSUGI HOPE

Registered charity 1175529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Kintsugi Hope exists to create safe and supportive spaces for people living with mental and emotional health challenges. We do this by:- Setting up Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Groups across the country- Starting the conversation about positive wellbeing, signposting on as and when necessary- Advocacy, standing in the gap

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-1. TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE WELLBEING OF PERSONS SUFFERING OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF SUFFERING FROM PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY WAY OF PRACTICAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING; AND2. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS FACING PERSECUTION FOR THEIR FAITH OR THOSE SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF WAR, CONFLICT AND NATURAL DISASTER, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY WAY OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO LOCAL, NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL CHARITIES.

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 · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £45,474 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £100,179 to £54,706. The trustees confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, despite identifying risks such as a reduction in donations and lack of cash flow. The charity's unrestricted funds stood at £16,772 against restricted funds of £37,934 at the period end.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to over £60,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BRIGHTERDAYS.LIFE LTD Companies House 15158209

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ruth Whitakerchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALEX HERITAGE
• Andrew David Thomas
• Matt Smith

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• CREATING HOPE income £74k
• HOPE CHARITY PROJECT income £36k
• CHASING THE STIGMA income £533k
• GROWING HOPE income £544k
• THE KIMBANGUIST HOPE OF THE WORLD income £123k
• KIM INSPIRE income £581k

Side by side with its peers

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