HOPE INTO ACTION PORTSMOUTH

Registered charity 1180865 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide home for vulnerably homeless people. We seek and work with investors to purchase the properties and then work with relevant organisations to ensure homeless people are housed.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PREVENTION OF POVERTY AND/OR THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY WAY OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR ILL-HEALTH THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH BY PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION IN PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £(14,652) for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds carried forward of £36,504. The trustees confirmed that the charity can continue to meet its obligations for at least twelve months and adopted the going concern basis. The charity's reserves policy is to maintain unrestricted funds sufficient for two to four months of existing activities.

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
• 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN JAMES MACFARLANEchair
• Edward Caush
• Elizabeth Ann Caush Bsc
• Elizabeth Mitchell
• James Craig Christian MacPherson
• Rebecca Anuoluwapo Oluwaponmile

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Hope into Action UK.

• Hope into Action UK income £2.1m
• HOPE INTO ACTION - EPSOM income £31k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• HOPE INTO ACTION: MID SUSSEX income £133k
• HOPE INTO ACTION BLACK COUNTRY AREAS income £95k
• HOPE INTO ACTION: COVENTRY income £69k

Side by side with its peers

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