HOPEWELL

Registered charity 1189235 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting marginalised communities of North Manchester to be socially connected, remain healthy & independent by providing meaningful activities promoting well-being, reducing loneliness & social isolation. Volunteering opportunities for local people to gain skills for employment. HOPEWELL is continuing the work of the unincorporated charity North Manchester Black Health Forum (No 1024631)

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE HEALTH WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON COMMUNITIES WHO ARE MARGINALISED BY REASON (PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) OF AGE; DISABILITY OR LONG-TERM ILLNESS; ETHNICITY, LANGUAGE OR CULTURE; GENDER; OR EDUCATION.2. TO PROMOTE RACIAL HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £27,718, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £24,259 for the year, supported by diversified grant income and extended funding from Manchester City Council and Zurich Community Trust.

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
• 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Kualo — “Hosting for this website has been supported by Kualo's Charity Hosting Initiative. Free Charity Hosting by Kualo.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Josephine Adanyei Ekwubiachair
• Adeela Rathore
• Altaf Hussain
• Anna Maria Kril
• Heather Frynka
• Marjorie Eudora HYDE
• Nighat Butt
• Shahnaz Akhtar Raja
• Shamsun Nahar Saleem -Ullah

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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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 NORTH LONDON LIMITED.

• HOPE NORTH LONDON LIMITED income £184k
• H.O.P.E income £176k
• ETHNIC HEALTH FORUM income £253k
• NEW HOPE GLOBAL income £225k
• NORTHAMPTON HOPE CENTRE income £1.3m
• Hopeworks UK (Bedford) income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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