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.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH SUPPORT FOR THERAPY CLINICS RUN IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE [0-18] WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH LOCAL CHURCHES ACROSS THE UK. IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BYA) PARTNERING WITH CHURCHES ACROSS THE UK TO SET UP CLINICS AND HEALTH AND WELLBEING SERVICES. B) PROVIDING OVERSIGHT, FUNDING AND SUPPORT FOR SET UP, TRAINING, AND CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR LOCALLY RUN CLINICS AND OTHER SUCH ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.C) RAISING AWARENESS AND PROVIDING TRAINING FOR EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS OF HOW TO INCLUDE AND SUPPORT CHILDREN WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH ENGAGING IN DISCUSSION ABOUT CHRISTIAN FAITH AND DOCTRINE AND OFFERING PRAYER AND OTHER SUCH ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · Disability · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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.

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.

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 GROWING HOPE KING'S CROSS.

• GROWING HOPE KING'S CROSS income £141k
• GROWING HOPE HIGH WYCOMBE income £119k
• GROWING HOPE YORK income £53k
• TREE OF HOPE income £1.1m
• GROWING HOPE BROCKLEY income £57k
• GROWING HOPE SOLENT income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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