HOPE FOR AFRICANS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (HADO)

Registered charity 1189767 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The organisation current activities are:- Advice, information and referrals- Employment training-Supplementary education for children- Befriending services- health promotion- English skills training - recreational activities

Objects

1.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY CLASSES. 2.THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY THE PROVISION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF:(A)GUIDANCE, ADVOCACY AND ADVICE.(B)INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE SESSIONS, PRE-EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOPS, ADVICE AND GUIDANCE THAT WILL IMPROVE THEIR CHANCES OF FUTURE EMPLOYMENT. (C)HEALTH AWARENESS AND REFERRAL ACTIVITIES IN THE AREAS OF SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES, CANCER AND DIET DELIVERED BY A HEALTH PRACTITIONER.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£14k
Latest spending
£12k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £458 for the year ended 28 February 2024, with total net assets increasing to £10,912. Per the trustees' report, the organization maintains unrestricted reserves of £6,900 against a stated policy target of retaining 5 to 10% of its unrestricted fund. The independent examiner confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the charity's state of affairs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 5 to 10 % of its unrestricted fund (reserves figure: £7k)
“The organization reserve policy is to retain 5 to 10 % of its unrestricted fund beyond its financial year to keep the organization running.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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 28/02/2026

  • Volunteers: 6

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 28/02/2025

  • Volunteers: 6

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 29/02/2024

  • Volunteers: 6

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 29/02/2024 (received 06/01/2025, 8 days after the 29/12/2024 due date); year ending 28/02/2023 (received 18/01/2024, 21 days after the 28/12/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
28/02/2026£14k£12k
28/02/2025£34k£29k
29/02/2024£25k£23k
28/02/2023£26k£23k
28/02/2022£18k£16k

Common questions

Is HOPE FOR AFRICANS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (HADO) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £458 for the year ended 28 February 2024, with total net assets increasing to £10,912. Per the trustees' report, the organization maintains unrestricted reserves of £6,900 against a stated policy target of retaining 5 to 10% of its unrestricted fund. The independent examiner confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the charity's state of affairs. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HOPE FOR AFRICANS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (HADO)?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOPE FOR AFRICANS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (HADO) as a grant recipient include HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIESFY2024£8kWorks to advance education and relieve sickness, distress and poverty amongst local ethnic minoritized older people aged 60-85 years who are unwell or isolated;

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund12/07/2024£20kHelping ex-offender young people
The National Lottery Community Fund27/08/2021£10kReducing Early Pregnancy amongst Refugee Young Girls
UK government21/08/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAVOYOCO (UK) LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HOPE FOR AFRICANS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (HADO)£14k—0above—no doubt
HAVOYOCO (UK) LIMITED FY2025£44k—0unclear—no doubt
ADHD FOUNDATION FY2024£2.3m—0below—no doubt
HARROW ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE FY2025£594k—0unclear—no doubt
HORN OF AFRICA DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (HADAF) FY2025£30k——unclear—no doubt
HOPE FOR TOMORROW GLOBAL FY2025£259k—0above—no doubt

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