HOPEFIELD ANIMAL SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1181186 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hopefield provides a forever home for abused, neglected and mistreated animals.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £19,719 for the period, driven by a £100,000 loss in visitor income due to a forced closure and rising operational costs. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted funds of £808,204, which significantly exceeds its stated reserves policy target of £500,000. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clemence Hoar Cummings. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hopefield Animal Sanctuary (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dave Schlaich — CEO (source)
• Lianne Angliss — General Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JESSICA ROCHE
• LEE CLARK
• LEONA LEWIS
• NICOLA CARSON
• william lewis

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• HOPE RESCUE income £2.3m
• HEATHLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £153k
• HOPE FOR MANKIND income £1.2m
• VISION OF HOPE ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY income £1.5m
• BLEAKHOLT ANIMAL SANCTUARY income £1.8m
• Wanderers Haven Animal Sanctuary income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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