HOPE AND HELP

Registered charity 1191730 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General Charitable PurposesThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:- TO CARRY OUT SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF BLACKBURN AND DARWEN BOROUGH AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR:A. TO RELIEVE POVERTY; B. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL USERS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND A HARM REDUCTION SERVICES TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO ACHIEVE INDEPENDENCE FROM DRUGS AND ALCOHOL; C. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM BEREAVEMENT AND LOSS BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, ADVICE, AND COUNSELLING SERVICES.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £17,127 at the end of the financial year, representing a decrease from the previous year's £43,742. The trustees aim to maintain modest reserves for short-term stability, and the independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention regarding the accounts' preparation.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 10/09/2024, 223 days after the 31/01/2024 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

• Abdurrehman Adam Master
• Maqbool Ahmed
• Zakir Mohmed

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HELP TO CREATE HOPE TRUST.

• HELP TO CREATE HOPE TRUST income £2.1m
• HEALTH HELP INTERNATIONAL income £195k
• PEACE AND RELIEF INTERNATIONAL income £308k
• The Hope Appeal income £42k
• SEND A LITTLE HOPE income £48k
• THE HELPING FOUNDATION income £23.9m

Side by side with its peers

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