HOPESTEAD

Registered charity 1190324 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the CIO are to relieve people who are in need by reason of homelessness through the prevention, reduction or alleviation of homelessness and the causes of homelessness and by the creation of sustainable communities primarily in but not limited to the East of England by the making of grants, delivery of services to those in need, the creation of sustainable communities etc.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Hopestead reported a net income of £95,535 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £486,737 and restricted reserves of £118,465. The trustees consider the unrestricted funds sufficient to finance ongoing charitable expenditure for the foreseeable future, and the independent auditors confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hopestead (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Cecilia Tredget — Board Chair of Trustees (source)
• Lucy Parish — Director of Operations (source)

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).

• Travis Perkins — “A recent example is our partnership with Travis Perkins, which has provided £10,000 of funding to support domestic abuse survivors across th…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cecilia Mary Tredgetchair
• Danielle Golding
• Matthew John Townsend · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Coates
• Victoria Jane Seales

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HOPE THREE 16 LTD.

• HOPE THREE 16 LTD income £365k
• NORTHAMPTON HOPE CENTRE income £1.3m
• HOPE AT HOME income £245k
• RESTORE HOPE income £1.4m
• THE FAITH HOPE & ENTERPRISE COMPANY LTD income £1.2m
• Hopeworks UK (Bedford) income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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