GIVING HOPE TORFAEN

Registered charity 1193953 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Relief of Poverty, support for homeless people and reduction in homelessness, promotion of education and improvement of the lives of the people of Torfaen.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONG THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS, OR AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS, AND THE RELIEF OF CHARITABLE NEED IN THE COMMUNITY OF TORFAEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF:• ITEMS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SLEEPING BAGS, TOILETRIES, CLOTHES AND FOOD.• SUPPORT TO PEOPLE IN CRISIS BY PROVIDING INFORMAL ADVICE AND SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY SERVICES.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that for the period ending 31 March 2025, the charity received total receipts of £38,621 and incurred total payments of £39,421, resulting in a net decrease in cash funds of £800. The unrestricted cash balance at the end of the period was £8,441. The trustees reported that no audit was received from the Lottery fund provider for this period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clint Oldridge
• Judy Dickinson
• Keir Ashman
• PAUL RAYMOND WATKINS
• STEPHEN ROBERT MANNING

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Torfaen

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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