HELP TO CREATE HOPE TRUST

Registered charity 1195878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's objects are1) to advance health and relieve sickness for the public benefit by such means as the trustee in their absolute discretionshall from time to time see fit (including by the support of veterans in the United Kingdom); and2) to further such other charitable purposes as the trustees shall from time to time see fit.

Objects

A)TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND RELIEVE SICKNESS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT (INCLUDING BY THE SUPPORT OF VETERANS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM); ANDB)TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £65,881,958, which is an increase from the previous year's £63,874,362. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Landers Accountants Ltd. 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 22/08/2024, 53 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2022 (received 14/07/2023, 14 days after the 30/06/2023 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £371k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 35.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Malcolm Thomas Patrick Gibney
• Maria Anne Kane
• Michael Alan Shanley
• William Thomas Edward Briggs

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

Operates in: Ireland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• HOPE AND HELP income £77k
• HOPE MINISTRIES LONDON income £34k
• LEAP INTO HOPE income £39k
• HOPE CHURCH LUTON TRUST income £227k
• HOPE CHURCH WORCESTER income £402k
• HOPE'S PLACE income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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