GROWING HOPE

Registered charity 1176358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Growing Hope champions accessibility and works in collaboration with therapy clinics across the UK which offer free therapy for children and young people with additional needs and their families to support them in achieving their potential and to help improve their health and wellbeing. The charity aims to help anyone regardless of their religious beliefs.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £44,010 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £140,584 to £96,574. The trustees note that this deficit reflects a period of financial adjustment where expenditure was reduced and recruitment paused, with expectations of substantial income in early 2026. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Growing Hope (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).

• Benefact Trust — “We are grateful to Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for their generous support.” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “We are grateful to Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for their generous support.” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (66% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEVE FORDchair
• Bethan Palmer
• KWADWO KYEI-SARPONG
• PAUL RICHARD NYE
• Rebecca MacDonald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Beasley

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 THE HOPE CHARITY.

• THE HOPE CHARITY income £187k
• HOPE FOR THE YOUNG LIMITED income £537k
• TREE OF HOPE income £1.1m
• GROWING WELL LIMITED income £1.5m
• FND HOPE UK income £274k
• HOPE FOUNDATION HELPING THE HELPLESS income £254k

Side by side with its peers

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