Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 18

HOPE (PORTSMOUTH)

HOPE Portsmouth runs various community projects including: Portsmouth Food Bank, Community Circles of Support, ROC Community Mentoring, undertakes various youth and children's activities, as well as Kings Church Sunday services and midweek church community activities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£484	£438	£46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£445	£388	£57	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21	*	£490	£284	£206	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£332	£303	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£358	£276	£82	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£313	£218	£94	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£354	£280	£74	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£291	£291	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£274	£220	£54	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£221	£209	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£249	£207	£42	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£208	£205	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£208	£231	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10		£279	£251	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09		£281	£252	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/08		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years

www.thekings.church

info@thekings.church

02392987977

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

General Community services

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Portsmouth City,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

The Trussell Trust	£248,164
CAF	£8,000
DCMS	£4,890

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£79,999	09/11/2023	Continuation of PF1 and PF3 - 4 roles (8dpw);. funding for 3 new HOPE workers (6.5dpw); project costs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£5,000	12/10/2022	Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£55,667	09/06/2022	CAB Advisor 22.5hpw, training, travel, supervision, office space & subscriptions, hardware
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£53,161	11/03/2021	Strategic staff capacity; sessional costs; digital
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,890	01/10/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£9,000	30/07/2020	Income maximisation - case worker
CAF - Grant to HOPE Portsmouth
£8,000	02/06/2020 3	Grant to HOPE Portsmouth to support the organisation through COVID19
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£3,452	20/05/2020	CV emergency costs: salary costs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£20,943	10/12/2019 12	Upgrades to warehouse
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£20,943	10/12/2019	Upgrades to warehouse
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£4,355	15/11/2019	We want to build a warehouse to store the donated food we receive.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£4,451	15/05/2019 12	Warehouse resources and labour
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£4,451	15/05/2019	Warehouse resources and labour
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£30,000	15/01/2019 12	New warehouse facility
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Portsmouth Foodbank
£30,000	12/12/2018	New warehouse facility
Joseph Rank Trust - Kings Church Portsmouth
£20,000	03/05/2018	To part fund the Church property scheme
National Lottery Community Fund - Changing Places - accessible toilet facility
£9,799	26/04/2018 12	The organisation will install a 'Changing places' WC facility within their community hall for the benefit of disabled users.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hope Portsmouth
£15,000	24/10/2017 12	Hope Portsmouth is seeking funding for an organisational strength and governance review, trustee and staff training, improving its communications including with volunteers, development of its website and new CRM and Personnel IT systems.
National Lottery Community Fund - Portsmouth Food Bank
£77,787	09/08/2011 36	The grant will enable HOPE (Portsmouth) to expand its existing service to offer hot food as well as nutritionally balanced dried food. HOPE will join forces with a recycling company to collect furniture and clothing to help raise finance. The group ....more The grant will enable HOPE (Portsmouth) to expand its existing service to offer hot food as well as nutritionally balanced dried food. HOPE will join forces with a recycling company to collect furniture and clothing to help raise finance. The group will run assemblies in schools to promote poverty awareness. Craft workshops will take place where people can produce items for sale. Finance workshops will be held to educate people in financial awareness to break the poverty cycle.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-54

ALASTAIR RICHARD LAWSON JONES Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Operations Manager

CATHERINE GRAY Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Administrator

EMMA BROUGH Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Foster Carer

JAMES MACPHERSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Social Worker

MARTIN BACK Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Accountant

PAUL HUTCHINGS (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Project Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/06/2007, number: 1119653
Registered at Companies House on 03/01/2007, number: 06040760

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
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

Filing Record

16 returns made; AR21: 45 days late,

Main office

The Kings Church & Centre
Somers Road
SOUTHSEA
PO5 4QA

Objectives

A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; ANDC) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD. IN PRACTICE: PORTSMOUTH.

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