VOICES OF HOPE

Registered charity 1187454 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Voices of Hope is a locally founded charity dedicated to bringing people from "At Risk" to "Thriving" through three main project streams; specialist women's services, food insecurity projects and creative arts projects supporting physical and mental health. You can find out more information by visiting www.voh.org.uk.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN NEED, DUE TO AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, OR OTHER DISADVANTAGES, INCLUDING SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY SUPPORTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN AFFECTED BY GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND/OR WHO FACE MULTIPLE DISADVANTAGES. 2. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ON THE PREVENTION OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE, ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND OTHER DISADVANTAGES TOWARDS WOMEN AND CHILDREN THROUGH AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS, TRAINING, EMPLOYABILITY SUPPORT, COMMUNITY-BASED SESSIONS, AND RESOURCES THAT PROMOTE AWARENESS AND SOCIETAL CHANGE.3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE ART OF MUSIC, BY THE PRESENTATION OF RECITALS, CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE.

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

Causes: Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £32,890 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £643,407 and total expenditure of £610,517. The trustees confirmed that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified regarding the charity's ability to continue operating.

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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elisabeth Anne Vernonchair
• Clare Suzanne Wingfield
• Isaac Kelvin Onyango
• Keath Wayne Gaitskell
• Rebecca-Anne Harrington
• SARAH JAYNE JARVIS
• Tracy Jean Hall

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames · Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• VOICE OF HOPE income £76k
• HOPE COMMUNITY PROJECT WOLVERHAMPTON income £208k
• VOICES income £328k
• VOICES OF THE HOLOCAUST income £141k
• VOICE OF THE CHILD income £343k
• VOICES FOR LIFE income £124k

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