HOPE AFTER SUICIDE LOSS

Registered charity 1186881 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of support to adults bereaved by suicide.

Objects

1. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT2. TO PROVIDE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING FOR THOSE IN NEED, SPECIFICALLY PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THOSE BEREAVED BY SUICIDE BY MEANS OF:A. ONE TO ONE AND GROUP SUPPORTB. THE PROMOTION, SUSTAINING AND INCREASING OF EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE FOR PROFESSIONALS AND OTHERS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE.C. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH WILL SUPPORT THOSE BEREAVED BY SUICIDE.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained its reserves policy target of three months' operating and counselling expenditure throughout the year, resulting in unrestricted funds of £11,252. However, the trustees report a net expenditure for the year and note that securing continued funding remains one of the biggest threats to the charity's viability.

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 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11676795

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — HOPE after Suicide Loss (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).

• Suffolk Community Foundation — “Supported by Suffolk Community Foundation through:” (source page)
• East of England Co-op Community Cares Fund — “East of England Co-op Community Cares Fund” (source page)
• Ellison’s Grantmaking Programme — “Ellison’s Grantmaking Programme” (source page)
• Miller Trust Grantmaking Award — “Miller Trust Grantmaking Award” (source page)
• Suffolk Giving Grantmaking Programme — “Suffolk Giving Grantmaking Programme” (source page)
• Beckett Health & Wellbeing Grantmaking Programme — “Beckett Health & Wellbeing Grantmaking Programme” (source page)
• Norfolk Community Foundation — “Supported by Norfolk Community Foundation through:” (source page)
• The Paul Bassham Community First Revenue Fund — “The Paul Bassham Community First Revenue Fund” (source page)
• Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Small Grants Team — “We are also thankful to be supported by: Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Small Grants Team” (source page)
• The Geoffrey Watling Charity — “The Geoffrey Watling Charity” (source page)
• Jephcott Charitable Trust — “Jephcott Charitable Trust” (source page)
• West Suffolk Community Chest — “West Suffolk Community Chest” (source page)
• Belstead Ganzoni Charitable Settlement — “Belstead Ganzoni Charitable Settlement” (source page)
• Greater Gabbard Community Fund provided by SSE Renewables — “Greater Gabbard Community Fund provided by SSE Renewables” (source page)

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.

• COOTE, Lucy Katherine — director, appointed 12/10/2023on trustee list
• PENNOCK, Dan — director, appointed 12/10/2023not on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Vicki Annette — director, appointed 14/11/2018not on trustee list
• COPSEY, Christine Mavis, Rev — director, appointed 14/11/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Wilson
• Ian Dallas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Katherine Coote
• Luka Emre Arthur Ugurlu
• Rev Christine Copsey

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 DON’T LOSE HOPE.

• DON’T LOSE HOPE income £301k
• HOPE AND HELP income £77k
• SURVIVORS OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE income £475k
• HOPE AGAINST SUICIDE income £36k
• SOS SILENCE OF SUICIDE income £1.8m
• HOPE CHARITY PROJECT income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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