ELBA HOPE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1200793 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our work in the United Kingdom centers on community empowerment, education, and sustainable development. At the heart of our mission also lies a steadfast commitment to sustainable progress and better futures for Africans and the African Diaspora through the interconnected tools of agriculture, conservation, and youth advocacy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted funds in deficit of £577,527, resulting from a net loss of £529,928 against income of £208,989. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, citing support from related parties IE7 Ltd and IE7 Holdings Ltd, and a pipeline of pledged grants expected in the next fiscal year. No formal reserves policy has yet been agreed, though trustees intend to retain sufficient funds to mitigate income volatility.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2023) → no going-concern doubt (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 13/11/2026, 13 days after the 31/10/2026 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Idris Akuna Elba OBEchair
• Maryam Egal
• Roger Glenister Charteris
• Sabrina Dhowre Elba
• Susan Benjamin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ghana · Sierra Leone · Throughout England And Wales · United States

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 PROJECT HOPE, UNITED KINGDOM.

• PROJECT HOPE, UNITED KINGDOM income £176k
• THE ELMA FOUNDATION (UK) income £7.3m
• ECCABI LTD income £93k
• CONNECTIONS OF HOPE FOUNDATION income £150k
• BEST HOPE income £72k
• SOURCE OF HOPE LIMITED income £148k

Side by side with its peers

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