THE HUBB FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1186026 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE RELIEF OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES IN NEED BECAUSE OF YOUTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE SPECIFICALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND FULLY CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES IN NEED BECAUSE OF YOUTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE SPECIFICALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND FULLY CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£1.5m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £151,425 are below the trustees' stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net expenditure of £54,429 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total retained funds from £218,554 to £164,125. Despite this reduction, the trustees and auditors confirm that adequate resources exist to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months of the expenditure (reserves figure: £151k)
“It has established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets held by the charity should be between 3-6 months of the expenditure to ensure that the charity is self-sufficient in the longer term.” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dean Statham. Discloses 5 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Government income: £1,430,148 — contracts £1,417,648 (1), grants £12,500 (1); 95% of the £1,501,042 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Government income: £1,462,282 — grants £1,462,282 (3); 86% of the £1,695,087 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 7
  • Government income: £1,494,582 — grants £1,494,582 (3); 90% of the £1,661,982 total gross income on the same return

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

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income
£1.5m
Total spending
£1.6m
Reserves (reported)
£151k
Employees
7

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.5m£1.6m
31/12/2024£1.7m£1.7m
31/12/2023£1.7m£1.8m
31/12/2022£1.5m£1.6m
31/12/2021£530k£472k

Common questions

Is THE HUBB FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £151,425 are below the trustees' stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net expenditure of £54,429 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total retained funds from £218,554 to £164,125. Despite this reduction, the trustees and auditors confirm that adequate resources exist to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dean Statham.

Who funds THE HUBB FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE HUBB FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and ShropshireFY2025£50kMaterial Grant Payments
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and ShropshireFY2023£50k
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and ShropshireFY2024Unverified read£10kMaterial Grant Payments

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.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund17/02/2023£10kCommunity Coaching
UK government18/06/2020£68kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund23/03/2020£8kSustaining School holiday provision in Community settingss

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 HUBBUB FOUNDATION UK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE HUBB FOUNDATION£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt
HUBBUB FOUNDATION UK FY2025£7.4m——unclear—no doubt
YESHUOS SHABBOS FY2025£5.1m—0unclear—no doubt
ACTIVE HOPE FY2025£250k—0unclear—no doubt
M.E.B. FY2025£154k—0unclear—no doubt
COUNTY IN THE COMMUNITY FY2025£499k—0unclear—no doubt

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